In St Louis, the Blues did a lot right but not enough to keep the Boston Bruins from hanging a 6-5 loss on them Friday.
David Krejci led the way for Boston with two goals and four points.
“It was kind of nerve-wracking at the end of the game, but we got the job done, and at this point of the season that’s all that matters,” Krejci said. “Must win. I think we played with desperation and showed it tonight from the beginning.”
The Bruins are in a dog-fight with the Detroit Red Wings for a playoff spot; Detroit beat the Minnesota Wild Friday, 3-2.
David Krejci had two goals and two assists in win over Blues – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Patrice Bergeron scored his 30th of the year which turned out to the game-winner.
“Right now it’s about the wins, and we found a way,” Bergeron said. “… I was definitely more happy to get that extra goal, and that extra goal that we needed.”
Frank Vatrano , Loui Eriksson and Matt Beleskey also scored for the Bruins.
“You see Detroit won, we don’t want to wait until the last minute,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said. “Hopefully this gets us back on track here. They are not easy games, but as I told the players before the game, anybody in this League can win on any given night, so why not us? Just go out there and play to win and we did just that.”
Kevin Shattenkirk made things tight late but the Bruins had just enough room to get the win.
“We weren’t ready to go,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We weren’t sharp, we weren’t ready to go. It was really an extension of the third period of the last game here. We kind of backed off a little bit there and we weren’t ready to go tonight. We got going a little bit at periods of time. We had a stretch in the second period where we were good. Obviously a big push in the third period when we scored the third goal, but we weren’t sharp, and even saying that, we scored five goals. Some of the goals were really good. They were hard-working goals, but we weren’t sharp with the puck and we weren’t really sharp in our defending, our communication.”
Paul Stastny, Robert Bortuzzo, Jaden Schwartz, and Alex Pietrangelo had goals for the Blues.
“In the third, I thought we had our compete level rise a lot,” Pietrangelo said. “We had some really good opportunities offensively and getting the puck out of our zone with some ease.
“Especially in the first two periods, especially in the first we should have raised our work ethic a bit. We knew they were going to come at us pretty hard. That’s a desperate team.”
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