In Dallas, the Stars took a 1-0 lead in the middle frame off a goal from Riley Damiani; it was his first NHL goal.
The St Louis Blues replied with four goals of their own to send the Stars to their fourth straight loss on Tuesday night.
“It was a little scary, but it was fun,” Damiani said. “I had a lot of fun and the guys helped me out a lot. It was a quick turnaround. (I) got in today and didn’t get to skate this morning, so guys just helped me out with a lot of the systems stuff and just being comfortable and telling me to play my own game. That’s kind of what I did out there.”
Charlie Lindgren made 33 saves in the Blues win.
“It’s really fun right now,” Lindgren said. “The team’s playing well, and we’ve got a great group of guys. Winning always makes everything a blast, so it’s a lot of fun.”
St Louis improved to 16-8-5.
Colton Parayko tied the game for St Louis in the second period.
Justin Faulk put the Blues up 2-1, early in the third period.
“It’s big, it’s part of the style we want to play,” Faulk said. “I think you see a lot of other teams playing that too. With guys getting up in the rush and being aggressive and skating, it makes it tougher. It makes the other team be honest; they can come in on a forecheck and if they don’t finish their check, you can get up the ice and beat them and create an opportunity and maybe score.”
Ryan O’Reilly and Vladimir Tarasenko each scored off the power play for the 4-1 final..
“I thought it was a real smart game,” Blues head coach Craig Berube said. “I thought our guys played really hard physically. I thought we dictated the game in the first period with the physicality. That was what we wanted to do, we wanted to get on their [defensemen] and bang them and make it a hard game.
“Guys did a good job. They’re a good team over there and they hung in there too, and they had their opportunities.”
The Stars dropped to 13-11-2.
“We had some guys who, I’ll have to check the video to see if they even played,” Dallas head coach Rick Bowness said. “I couldn’t find them on the ice. Unless you want to show up and get your nose dirty and get involved in a game like that, then you’re a complete non-factor and we had a few of those guys that were complete no-shows. We have no chance if we have guys that don’t want to show up and play in those games.”
Jake Oettinger made 24 saves in the Dallas loss.
“I think in the third, we just had two unlucky bounces, one hit off our guy’s stick and one off our guy’s skate,” Oettinger said. “Sometimes it just doesn’t go your way and the other team gets bounces like that. It was a close game and it [stinks] that it ended up that way, but it could have just as easily happened for us too. A couple [lousy] bounces, but that’s hockey sometimes.”
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