In St Louis, the Blues’ Brayden Schenn and Ivan Barbashev hit for a [pair of goals and four points each in a 5-3 win over the Nashville Predators on Monday.
“The whole team did a really good job,” Barbashev said. “We just played hard, we played smart. We tried not to give them a lot of chances, which there were a couple from our mistakes, but overall, I think it was a really good game for our line and really good team effort.”
Ville Husso made 32 saves in the St Louis win.
The Blues improved to 23-11-5.
Filip Forsberg returned to the lineup from COVID19 protocol and scored once.
“I liked our competitiveness, I liked our work ethic in the game,” Predators coach John Hynes said. “That’s where we needed to be, a big, physical, hard game. I liked the way that the team competed. A couple areas we had complete control of the game. … The areas of the game that cost us were our rush details and support to be aggressive with our defensemen and when we’re not. That’s something we’ve got to clear up.”
The Predators fell to 24-13-3.
Nashville took a 1-0 lead off a strike from Ryan Johansen early in the first period, Forsberg pushed it to 2-0.
“I thought we started great,” Forsberg said. “We came out ready to play and took it to them in the first. Obviously they get two late goals in the period to make it 2-2, which obviously I didn’t think was the result it should have been, but at the same time, they’re a good team that has good players to make plays. Then in the second period, we gave them a couple odd-man rushes early on and they capitalized on two early.”
Ryan O’Reilly added a power-play goal for a 4-2 lead for the Blues.
Yakov Trenin also scored for the Predators, his third period goal made it 4-3 in favor of the Blues.
Juuse Saros made 24 saves in the Preds loss.
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