Blues lose fourth straight in 4-1 decision to Ottawa

In St Louis, the Blues were rattled in a 4-1 win by the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night.

Josh Norris and Tim Stutzle hit for a goal each in the Sens win, thye also two assists apiece.

“This is unreal,” Ottawa’s Brady Tkachuk said. “I think it’s our best effort we’ve had all year. Everybody was buzzing. Everybody was on their game. We really emptied the tanks to get a win tonight.”

Anton Forsberg made 22 saves in the Ottawa win.

David Perron was the lone striker for the Blues.

St Louis has lost four straight.

“It’s not always pretty, right?” St. Louis defenseman Justin Faulk said. “Sometimes you get in these funks where you just need to kind of put your nose to the grindstone and just work. I think there’s no lack of talent, that’s for sure, in that room in making plays and executing as a group, but you kind of get into these funks once in a while and we’ve got to be able to see it through on the other side of that.

“… We had definitely had a better effort tonight than we did [in the] previous two games, I think. Not comfortable with it by any means, but it happens once in a while and we just need to find a way out of it by working hard.”

The Senators improved to 20-31-5.

“I think it’s much like the Vegas game,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said, referring to the 2-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday. “We had everyone going. We rolled four lines. The [defensemen] and the goaltending continues to be great. When you get that kind of goaltending, you have a chance every night. I thought it was one of our better second periods in a long time, and we put a lot of miles on them.”

Ottawa took a 1-0 lead off a power play strike from Stutzle .

“The first penalty, there’s no reason to make that play,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “You’ve got a play where you can just make a simple play.”