In St Louis, the Vancouver Canucks’ Josh Leivo scored an airborne goal in the sixth round of the skills competition to complete the rally by the Canucks in a 4-3 win over the Blues.
The Blues led 3-1 in the middle frame before the Canucks rallied.
Micheal Ferland and J.T. Miller scored for the Canucks, and Bo Horvat struck in the third period to force the game to extra time.
“We fought back hard,” Horvat said. “A lot of the guys, it just shows the character in our room right now. Last year, I don’t think we had enough of those. To get our confidence going early and to come back against a great hockey team like that definitely gives us confidence going forward.”
Robby Fabbri, Alex Pietrangelo and Vladimir Tarasenko scored for the Blues.
The Blues dropped to 3-1-3.
“It’s a staple of our game for years here, right, is closing out leads,” Pietrangelo said. “We’ve just got to find a way to keep playing the same way. A couple weird bounces the last couple games, not an excuse, but I think we can still do a better job of closing teams out and keeping things 5-on-5, but there’s a lot of things we can build off of here, and once you start closing out games, we’re going to be pushing things in the right direction.”
The Canucks improved to 4-2-0.
“It was good of us to come back. It’s great to win a game like this. This win is different from the last one (5-1 against the Detroit Red Wings). It’s really good to come back and helps our confidence for next game,” the Canucks’ Elias Pettersson said after the game.
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Jordan Binnington made 29 saves through overtime and five more in the shootout.
“It’s frustrating. It seems the teams are building momentum off their first goal,” Binnington said. “I think we have to do a good job at staying composed and getting back to our game.”
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