In Newark, Cory Schneider made 31 saves and the New Jersey Devils snapped the St Louis Blues win streak at eight, with a 4-2 decision over the visitors.
“I don’t think we snuck one out or got lucky, but we matched them play for play and thought we were with them right until the end,” Schneider said. “I give our guys a lot of credit. [St. Louis] is a tough team to handle down low with a lot of weapons, but my teammates worked hard and really battled tonight.”
Jaden Schwartz and Vince Dunn were the Blues strikers.
“A lot of times you go on a streak and maybe you get bounces and find ways to win when you’re not necessarily playing the way you want to play,” the Blues’ Alex Pietrangelo said. “We got away with it in (a 3-1 win at the New York Rangers on Tuesday) when we didn’t play our best game and found a way to win. Coming in here, they got the bounces and we didn’t and that’s the end result.”
Dakota Mermis (first NHL goal), Connor Carrick and Jesper Bratt scored for the Devils.
“We’ve had more trust in each other of late and I think we’re really starting to own our jobs,” Carrick said. “We’re more competitive against the guy directly across from us and more excited to have the puck because of that.”
Joey Anderson added an empty goal in the final minute to seal the win.
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Jordan Binnington made 28 saves in the loss.
“They were the better team,” St. Louis head coach Craig Berube said. “We didn’t execute very well with the puck, just a lot of bobbled pucks, missed passes. They were quicker and on us and we really didn’t get to our game tonight.”
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