It is just getting sillier by the day in St Louis.
The Blues won their 11th straight game Tuesday night, 3-2, over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs after extra time.
Ryan O’Reilly potted the OT winner for Blues – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
It really wasn’t much extra time as Ryan O’Reilly scored with just 34 seconds elapsed in the session.
“Marner was winding up there,” O’Reilly said. “He kind of saw that he had me beat. He was just flying. It was just a desperate [attempt] trying to get back and you see when (Blues goalie Jordan Binnington) went down, he was going to try and throw it in front and I just try and get a stick on it and lucky for us, put it in an area where we can go 2-on-1.”
It wasn’t easy for the Blues, they coughed up a 2-0 first period lead on goals from Jaden Schwartz and Colton Parayko.
“It’s always good. It’s great,” St. Louis’ Alex Pietrangelo said. “Especially after the way we started this year, so it’s a good push for us.
“We’ve come a long way since [early in the season]. For me and everybody else, we get the sense we’re not really satisfied.”
Jordan Binnington made 31 saves to get the win.
The Leafs rallied in the third period off goals from Zach Hyman and Auston Matthews.
“I think we can be proud of our effort,” Matthews said. “All in all, battling back there in the third to score two goals and force it into overtime and get a point. It could have gone either way, but we kind of figured it out halfway through the second and in the third and started playing a lot better.”
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Frederik Andersen made 38 saves in the loss.
“I would have liked to have seen us crawl our way back and win the game, but I thought we did a lot of good things today in the latter half of the game to set us up for success, and I was impressed with a lot of our play,” Toronto coach Mike Babcock said.
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