Blues win third straight

In Ottawa, St Louis Blues’ David Perron scored two goals, including the game-winner, in a 6-4 win over the Senators.

The Blues improved to 3-0-1 after opening the season with a loss in extra time.

“I think that we’re just confident. We know that we’re going to have a chance,” Blues Ryan O’Reilly said. “Our goaltending has been outstanding; we know that they’re going to shut the door. And for us, when we get to our game, we know we’re going to get opportunities, and we’ve done a good job at capitalizing on them at the right times.”

Jake Allen made 25 saves in the win.

Artem Anisimov and Vitaly Abramov scored for the Senators who had a 2-0 lead in the game.

“Definitely not as smooth as I usually am, but it’s coming,” Allen said. “It’s been the first real meaningful game in six or seven months, so for me, it was just good to get the feet wet. I felt that I made some really good saves. There are some things to adjust, but overall, we’ll take the win.”

Jay Bouwmeester, Oskar Sundqvist and Brayden Schenn also scored for the Blues.

“[The Blues are] a very good team that rolls four lines over, so you’ve got to be prepared,” Smith said. “They have maybe the best defense in the National Hockey League. We found ways to get scoring chances, but we made some mistakes that ended up in our net.”

Chris Tierney, Anthony Duclair also scored for the Senators who are winless in three games this season.

O’Reilly added an empty net goal to seal the win.

“Obviously, with winning a [Stanley] Cup (last season), I think [we’re] much more confident,” O’Reilly said. “Having been through that as a group, I think we just seem to get more bounces. Last year, at the beginning of the year, every bounce that could go wrong did. We couldn’t find a way to close games out. But it’s a different year, and we’ve improved.”

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Anders Nilsson made 31 saves in the loss.

“I thought we could’ve won the game,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said. “We had some long stretches where they were in our zone, but I thought we boxed out hard, we battled hard in our zone, especially early. I think they just wore on us as the game went on.”