In St Louis, Christian Dvorak hit for a hat trick in the third period to help the Montreal Canadiens to a 7-4 win over the Blues on Saturday.
“It’s nice,” Dvorak said. “I’ve been close a couple times. It’s kind of nice to get it out of the way, I guess. It was a good team win for us.”
Jake Allen made 26 saves in the Habs win, he can win with offensive support.
“I don’t see the reason to talk how we lose a game,” St. Louis forward Vladimir Tarasenko said. “It’s unacceptable to play like this. We have some time before the next game [Monday] to figure it out, and we have to play better at home.
“You saw the game. We can’t play like this. I don’t see the reason to find any issues right now. It’s unacceptable and we should fix it.”
That’s a lot to say for not having a reason to talk.
“We faced a little bit of adversity down two in the second and we fought our way back,” Dvorak said. “The power play got us going and we kind of took momentum of the game there, and we had a good comeback for us on the road.”
Jordan Kyrou struck for a pair of goals for the Blues, and Brayden Schenn added a single marker in the loss.
The Habs trailed 3-1 in the game before they rallied with three goals in the second period for a 4-3 advantage,
Montreal’s Cole Caufield scored the first of his two in the frame, Juraj Slafkovsky added a single marker, and Caufield’s second gave the Habs the 4-3 lead.
“It feels good to get one 5-on-4, and to get two of them too,” Caufield said. “It’s been something that we’ve been kind of talking about and really working at. It was good to get two on the board tonight.”
Jordan Binnington made 18 saves in the loss.
“You don’t need to make [that play],” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “We’ve got to simplify, for sure. He could’ve went up the wall with it and been out of the zone. We’re not simple right now. We complicate things. It was a good first period, I thought, and from then on, like in the second, we’ve got complete control in my opinion and then we let it slip away.”
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