In Denver, Jordan Binnington made 45 saves for the St Louis Blues in a 3-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Monday night.
After a scoreless first period, Mikko Rantanen scored for the Avs to give them a 1-0 lead in the second period.
The Blues responded with three straight goals for a 3-1 lead into the third period.
St Louis’ Robert Thomas started the outburst with tying goal n the second period.
“I got it where I wanted to, up top on the right side, and yeah, just got a good bounce,” Thomas said. “It’s great play by everyone. [Justin Faulk] made a good breakout pass. [Vladimir Tarasenko] makes a great play to [Buchnevich], and ‘Bucci’ makes a great play to me, and I was just fortunate to get a bounce there and it go in. So great play by those three guys.”
The Avs dropped to 8-5-1.
“I feel like we did a lot of good things. We did the right things to win that game,” the Avs Cale Makar said. “Just a couple unfortunate errors by me, and an unfortunate bounce off my stick and in the net. Like I said, that’s hockey. You’re going to probably get those back at some point, but for us, definitely an easily winnable game. I feel like we did everything right. Just didn’t come out with it.”
The Avs failed to tie the game on a 5-on-3 power play with under two minutes to go in the third period.
“That’s probably not the look you want to give up, especially against this team in the last two minutes, but can’t give enough credit to those three guys out there and ‘Binner,'” Thomas said. “They did an amazing job keeping their chances to kind of the outside, and Binner made some huge saves. What a way to close it.”
Brandon scored in the middle frame for a 2-1 lead, and Jordan Kyrou scored 13 seconds into the third period for a 3-1 advantage to the Blues.
St Louis improved to 6-8-0.
“I kind of just got around the net and saw [Josh] Leivo backdoor,” Saad said. “I was trying to throw it backdoor to Leivo there, and I just got a bounce. I knew we had space and just tried to make a quick play, and it was a fortunate bounce.”
Artturi Lehkonen hit for a power play goal at 3:02 of the third to get the Avs within 3-2 but were unable to connect the rest of the way, including the late power play.
Alexander Georgiev made 36 saves in the Avs loss.
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