On Friday night in St Louis, six different skaters struck for the Blues in a 6-2 s thumping of the visiting Nashville Predator.
Ryan O’Reilly, Brayden Schenn and Alex Pietrangelo had goals and multi-point nights in the win.
“Last game we played hard, we played physical,” Schenn said. “The fights weren’t involved in the game but it was a hard game. Guys were engaged emotionally and I think that carried over tonight.”
Ivan Barbashev, Zach Sanford and Robby Fabbri also scored for the Blues who improved to 8-10-3.
Jake Allen made 26 saves for St. Louis for the win.
Nick Bonino and Ryan Hartman scored
“We didn’t play well defensively at all,” Predators defenseman Roman Josi said. “They had a lot of chances and the chances they had were really good chances, like A-plus chances right in front on the net, [and] breakaways, and we’ve got to play better for [Saros] in net.”
It was the Blues’ new head coach, Craig Berube,’s first win with St Louis.
“Obviously happy to get a win,” Berube said. “… Nothing I told them tonight. It’s just about being ready. We know it’s going to be a hard game. Just played them the other night. It was a tough game and a physical game. It might have carried over.”
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Juuse Saros got the start for Nashville but was given the hook after yielding five goals and making just 10 saves.
Pekka Rinne relieved him in the middle frame and made 18 saves and gave up a single marker to the Blues.
“It wasn’t good. We’ll look at it. There’s things we did wrong and we can do better. Right from the start, right to the end. … We knew it was going to be a physical game. They always are. We made too many mistakes. That’s why we lost the game,” Predators head coach Peter Laviolette said after the loss.
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