In St Louis, Noel Acciari to help the Blues to a 3-1 win over the visiting Anaheim Ducks on Monday night.
Jordan Binnington made 27 saves in the Blues win.
“I think it’s just good to feel that success,” Binnington said. “We’ve got to just keep working hard and keep our head down. It’s good to get some wins for sure.”
Acciari gave the Blues a 1-0 lead in the first period.
“I think we know we’re a good team and we’re relentless,” Acciari said. “We just didn’t give up on each other. We found our stride and we’re going to keep trying to stick with that and keep getting better.
“I think the pucks have started going the right way. We’re starting to get some bounces and I think the confidence for some guys [is] starting to come back from that eight-game skid. Things are clicking, but there’s still some things we need to work on. We knew they were going to give us [their] best, and we were able to stick with the game and get a win there.”
Cam Fowler scored n the first period for the Ducks, to tie the game, 1-1.
“The power play came through for us,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “[Faulk’s] been a real good player here since the trade [in 2019] in all situations. Logs a lot of minutes and plays the game properly. He’s got a great shot, which he showed tonight on the power play.”
It was the seventh straight win for St Louis.
“At some point, you need to start getting the results,” Fowler said. “We can look at the positives as best as we can, but our power play had the chance to put the game away, a couple opportunities and we didn’t get the job done and they did. That’s the hockey game. There’s still a lot of areas in the game where we can still be better.”
The Blues improved to 10-8-0.
Acciari scored his first goal of the night on 11 seconds of used fresh ice in the game, his empty-netter came with 19 seconds left in the game.
Anaheim dropped to 5-15-1.
“I thought it was ‘Even-Steven’ 5-on-5,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakins said. “They were able to grab one on the power play late after we just couldn’t get a hold of the puck and get it down the ice. They had one chance and it was bouncing around like crazy. It came down to special teams and they were able to convert and we weren’t.”
Acciari’s second strike was an empty-netter late, to make it a 3-1 final.
John Gibson made 24 saves in the Ducks.
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