In St Louis, David Perron scored off the power-play with 60 seconds left in extra time on Thursday night, to send to the Blues to a 3-2 win over the San Jose Sharks.
“I called for it as it was kind of a messy entry, but I saw that [Krug] was going to kind of retain control or whatever, keep the puck,” Perron said. “I started calling for it because I knew I was behind their [defense]. I was going to look to make a pass and I just felt like maybe I was going to catch the goalie quick five-hole before he could get down, and it worked.”
Jordan Binnington made 30 saves in the win; St Louis pushed their record to 10-5-2.
San Jose took a 2-1 lead in the second period on goals from Noah Gregor and John Leonard.
“There were definitely spurts where we played a good, hard, fast game,” San Jose’s Brent Burns said. “Obviously there were ebbs and flows, thing to clean up, but there were definitely points in that game where we were in control of that game.”
Brayden Schenn forced the extra session with a goal at 19:20 of the third period.
“I got a seam pass from Perron and I’m just looking to put it on net,” St Louis’ Mike Hoffman said. “The ice is pretty bad and we’re trying to get a goal. I’m not trying to be too cute, just put it on net and get numbers there. ‘Schenner’ was in there, and it was a great shot to put it in.”
Hoffman also scored for the Blues.
Martin Jones made 42 saves in the loss.
“We were finding open spaces,” Gregor said. “We have guys that are smart hockey players and can find that open ice. Quite a few times, we were able to find those holes. We’ve got guys that if you give us the middle of the ice, we’re going to take it.”
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