In St Louis, Brandon Saad hit for a pair of goals and the Blues rolled to a 5-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Thursday. 
Ville Husso made 28 saves in the St Louis win, and improved to 6-0-0.
“[Husso’s] been huge for us, especially as of late,” Saad said. “I haven’t seen a better goalie in the League lately. He’s been great back there. I think when you have that, you’re going to have confidence. Obviously, we don’t want to give up too many chances, but when he can do that for us, it helps us transition.”
Brayden Schenn struck for a goal in the win.
“The difference between the two games, I think we went to Calgary and thought it was going to be a little bit easier,” Schenn said. “Not easy, we turned over the puck. We didn’t have our skating legs. We chased it the whole night, it just kept on snowballing on us. And tonight, I think we had a good mindset to get the puck deep. We knew they were on a back-to-back, and just try and play heavy and hard, which we did tonight. And obviously, Husso was great again for us.”
The Blues improved to 26-12-5.
Mikael Backlund was the lone striker for the Flames.
“I don’t think many teams want to give up 60-plus shots,” the Flames’ Matthew Tkachuk said. “To me, I don’t pay too much attention to shots. We can’t be a one-dimensional team. St. Louis gave us nothing. They weren’t happy with how they played last time. We have to be more desperate than we were tonight.”
The Flames fell to 20-13-6.
“Individual mistakes cost us goals against,” Calgary head coach Darryl Sutter said. “It’s not always just about scoring goals. We had some chances to score and we didn’t. You give up three goals going into the third period, you don’t win many hockey games.
“That’s a veteran, good hockey club. They had a one-off in Calgary. They’re on a pace for something like 110, 115 points this season. You make mistakes, they’ll make you play.”
Jordan Kyrou and Ryan O’Reilly iced the win with a [pair of goals in the third period.
Jacob Markstrom made 23 saves in the Calgary loss.
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