In St Louis, the visiting Minnesota Wild scored four times ni the third period to force extra time on Saturday with the Blues.
Brayden Schenn scored with 56 seconds gone in the extra session to give the Blues a 6-5 win.
It was St Louis’ eighth straight win.
“Yeah, ‘Buchy’ just kind of feeling it, making a lot of plays,” Schenn said. “Tried the defenseman 1-on-1, ended up beating him to the wraparound and [Justin Faulk] is going to the net and I was just kind of sitting there waiting if it was going to pop out and it did.”
Pavel Buchnevich scored for St Louis in regulation, and had an assist on the winner.
“It’s kind of a main goal for us for the regular season and it’s good,” Buchnevich said. “We still have a job to do in the regular season.”
St Louis improved to 45-20-10.
“Our puck play in the third period wasn’t very good,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “We turned some pucks over. They capitalized on them, tied it up, got the lead again, kind of a back and forth game in the third. Not like we wanted it, but we hung in there and got a win.”
Ville Husso made 31 saves in the Blues win.
Ryan Hartman hit for aw double for the Wild, who trailed 1-4 heading into the third period.
“We just kept doing what we normally do, just stayed the course we just kept playing,” Wild coach Dean Evason said. “We caught a few breaks. I think our momentum just flowed into the third there and I liked our resilience obviously again, so that’s good.”
Kirill Kaprizov and Frederick Gaudreau added single markers for the Wild.
“It feels good … But it really [stinks] to be able to come back all the way, push it to overtime and end up losing,” Kaprizov said. “Those are always the toughest games.”
Minnesota dropped to 46-21-7.
Marcus Foligno had a goal in the third period outburst by the Wild.
“We played a little faster,” Hartman said. “They’re able to play fast because they get pucks out of their zone and they’re able to just go without worrying about it. I think we were able to do that there in the third. It’s a 60-minute game, right? They came back on us last time (4-3 Blues overtime win on April 8) to tie it up and go to overtime and we did the same. It was nice to be able to tie that game.”
David Perron, Brandon Saad, Ivan Barbashev, and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored for St Louis in regulation.
Cam Talbot made 24 saves in the loss.
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