In St Louis Tuesday night, Alex Pietrangelo and Ivan Barbashev struck for two goals apiece in an 8-3 thumping of the visiting New Jersey Devils.
Jordan Binnington made 20 saves as he won his sixth straight start.
“It was fun. It’s fun winning,” Barbashev said. “We’ve just got to keep winning.”
The Blues are 11-2-1 in their 14 matches.
Alex Pietrangelo had two strikes in win over Devils – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
“All teams are good in the League and we wanted to compete right away in this game and come out in the first period and dictate how we’re going to play and guys did a great job. We harped on that and made sure guys were ready and they did a good job and they were ready,” Blues head coach Craig Berube said after the win.
Pavel Zacha, Kyle Palmieri and Mirco Mueller scored mostly cosmetic goals for the Devils.
“We were just disconnected,” Devils coach John Hynes said. “We’ve got to find a way to get more connected for the Chicago game [Thursday].
“It wasn’t very good in any facet. This is one game.”
Ryan O’Reilly, Tyler Bozak, Mackenzie MacEachern, and Jaden Schwarz added single markers for the Blues.
“Our team game is really solid right now,” Schwartz said. “Obviously guys are feeling pretty good. I think you can tell in how aggressive we are. Everyone knows how the standings are and how tight it is. If you’re losing a few, you’re sitting on the outside looking in. I think we’ve done a good job of staying even-keeled and not getting too ahead of ourselves and approaching each game one at a time.”
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Keith Kinkaid made 31 saves in the loss.
“We just got outbattled in every facet of the game,” Kinkaid said. “Technically if you want to count our own goals, we scored more goals.”
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