In St Louis, the Blues rallied from a 1-3 deficit in the third period to force extra time, only to lose in the extra session, 4-3, to the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night.
Jakub Voracek stuck the dagger in and twisted with the OT strike.
Jakub Voracek struck for OT winner in St Louis – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
“I think one guy changed, one guy got caught,” Voracek said. “Usually when you have a bad change in overtime, it’s on the rush. I thought it was going to be 2-on-1, then I had to slow down a little bit to have a little bit of time and space. I had nothing other than that, so obviously it worked out.”
Brian Elliott made 30 saves in the win.
“It was certainly a really solid game on our part,” Flyers head coach Alain Vigneault said. “We’ve played against some real tough opponents lately, Washington, Tampa Bay, and Boston, and to come in here tonight against the Stanley Cup champions, play the way we did, hard at both ends, there were some performers on the ice that were making it real challenging for us to keep our focus and our cool, but we did and we battled and we found a way to grind out and get a greasy road win against a real tough team.”
Ryan O’Reilly and Alexander Steen scored in the last half of the third period to get the Blues even.
“It was a great effort from us to battle back and get that point,” Robert Thomas said. “We would’ve liked to finish it off, but all in all, a good way to battle back.”
Tyler Pitlick, Travis Konecny and Michael Raffl scored in regulation for the FLyers.
“When you come in playing a team like this on the road, we were definitely happy to take it into overtime,” Konecny said. “To come out with a win is that much sweeter.”
Justin Faulk also scored for the Blues when he staked St Louis to an early 1-0 lead.
“You could tell why they are so successful in the playoffs because I felt after we tied the game 1-1 they started playing physical and all 18 guys were finishing checks,” Voracek said. “They played really heavy for a while there. When they bring this kind of game in the playoffs, I see why they won last year.”
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Jordan Binnington made 21 saves in the loss.
“I think we do a good job of staying in the moment and those things don’t affect us in that manner,” Steen said. “In saying that, we got a lot of big saves out of [Binnington] in the second period, probably could have been down more, and that kept us in it. We had a chance to get back.”
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