In Vancouver, Ville Husso made 38 saves and the St Louis Blues defeated the Canucks, 3-1, on Sunday night.
“I think Husso was amazing tonight,” the Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko said. “When somebody plays well, it always gives teammates positive emotions, but especially when a goalie is making these performances like almost every night.”
The Blues improved to 25-11-5.
“Our goalie was really good tonight and we scored a couple timely goals, and that was the difference in the hockey game,” St. Louis head coach Craig Berube said.
The Canucks fell to 18-19-4.
“Right now, we’re having a hard time scoring,” Vancouver head coach Bruce Boudreau said. “We have a couple of breakaways here and there, a couple of great looks. I’m really happy with the way they worked and the way they cared, just I expect to win every time we go on the ice, so I’m unhappy with that result.”
It started off well enough, Tanner Pearson posted the Canucks to a 1-0 lead in the first period.
“I thought Mikey played really well,” Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes said. “He made a couple big saves in the first, and a couple in the third. I thought he did his job and made the saves when we needed to. We’ve just got to find a way to put it in the net.”
Justin Faulk tied it with less than two minutes left on the clock in the first period.
“Guys bounced back right away and made a goal, so that was huge for us,” Husso said. “And after first it was 1-1, so that was big goal for us. It’s hockey. Sometimes they score and then we score right away back, so that was a big goal for us.”
St Louis took the lead in the second period off a strike from Brayden Schenn .
Jordan Kyrou iced the win in the third period when he scored in the 17th minute for the 3-1 final.
Michael DiPietro made 14 saves in the Canucks loss.
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