In Calgary, Matthew Tkachuk and Travis Hamonic erased an 0-2 deficit in the last half of the third period to force overtime with the St Louis Blues.
The Blues escaped however, with a power play goal midway through the extra session from David Perron to win, 3-2.
“I just feel like we turned the page after every night,” Perron said. “We keep going back at it the next day and try to work some more, try to get better and keep cleaning up stuff from our game or individually. I’ve been impressed with the group the way we’ve reacted every single night and even back-to-backs. We’ve won them all, so it’s been awesome.”
Jordan Binnington made 27 saves in the win, the seventh straight for St Louis.
“I think that in the third period we did a great job of taking the play to them, more than we did in the first two,” Tkachuk said. “You never want to be down going into the third again. But again, we seem to find ourselves … play in the offensive zone a little more, get more chances, more zone time. That comes with them protecting the lead, too, but I thought we did a pretty good job of getting that point.”
Ryan O’Reilly and Ivan Barbashev scored for the Blues in regulation.
“We’re just finding a way to get it done,” O’Reilly said. “We’re confident going into these situations. We’re not flustered even though we wanted to hold them off the right way. We’re confident. [Binnington] back there was playing unbelievable, poised. We’re just confident. When you do that you just seem to get the bounces.”
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David Rittich made 25 saves in the loss.
“We played well, just a couple mistakes,” Rittich said. “It’s going to happen. But some of those plays we have to figure out because it’s cost us a couple games in the past and we’re still doing that. We have to be smart.”
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