In St Louis, Brayden Schenn scored in the first and second periods on Tuesday night to give the Blues a 2-0 lead. 
Nick Leddy added a single marker to extend the advantage to 3-0, and St Louis went on to a 6-2 win over the Florida Panthers.
“I thought we got contributions from a lot of guys,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “I think we played a pretty solid game all around, goaltender out. I liked our forecheck and the aggressiveness of it. We did some real good things in the offensive zone again, a lot of time in the offensive zone.
“Other than a little bit in the third period, we were in our zone a little bit too much, and we just didn’t make plays and we kind of let them have the puck back a few times. But other than that, I thought that we won the game inside the dots tonight.”
Jordan Binnington made 34 saves in the St Louis win.
“Just trying to create some offense when I can and use my feet, try and create plays off that,” Leddy said. “I think for me it was a special night, just adding to the game was important.”
Florida scored in the second period off a goal from Eetu Luostarinen to cut the Blues lead to 3-1.
The Blues moved to 25-25-3.
In the third period, Ryan O’Reilly and Jordan Kyrou hit for goals 20 seconds apart for a 5-1 lead.
Florida dropped to 27-24-6.
Carter Verhaeghe had a goal for the Panthers in the third period after the Blues had taken a 5-1 lead in the third period.
“We were getting our looks,” Verhaeghe said. “I think we were just giving them a ton of looks off the rush and weren’t at our best tonight. It’s a little frustrating, but [Binnington] played well too.
“We want to win every game, but we know it’s not possible. We just want to keep building our game and trying to get better every night, and I think we’re on the right track, but tonight wasn’t our best.”
Ivan Barbashev added an empty-net goal for the 6-2 final.
Spencer Knight made 22 saves in the Panthers loss.
“I don’t want to look for an excuse for us to lose the game because we had some momentum, we had some good chances,” Panthers defenseman Radko Gudas said. “We had good chances to come back; I believed in our group all the way until the end. I thought the first two periods we had Grade-A chances that I thought if we could have buried, the game could have gone differently.”
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