In Anaheim, the Ducks’ season is turning ugly. On Wednesday night, Anaheim lost their eighth straight game, 3-2, to the St Louis Blues.
The Blues were sharp on the power play with three strikes.
Jordan Binnington made 27 saves in the win.
“Power play was great, special teams all around were good,” Binnington said. “Blocking a ton of shots (17), one-timers, the bench was loud too. Good energy.”
Max Comtois and Rickard Rakell scored for the Ducks.
“It seems like a moving target right now,” Anaheim head coach Dallas Eakins said. “You plug one hole and something else starts leaking. I can’t question our team’s effort. The effort was there. Guys played extremely hard for 60 minutes. Our penalty kill going into the game was top in the League (seventh) and we weren’t able to get it done, and that’s what ended up hurting us. Five-on-5 we were very, very good. Our power play still needs to be better (0-for-3), but we at least had a couple of looks there.”
The Ducks are 0-6-2 in the losing skid.
Brayden Schenn, Oskar Sundqvist and Zach Sanford were the St Louis strikers.
“These low plays around the net were open (on the power play),” Blues head coach Craig Berube said. “They did a good job and took advantage of it.”
Sundqvist’s goal was his first NHL power-play marker.
“It feels like I’ve been getting more comfortable playing with these guys,” Sundqvist said. “It’s a nice feeling to be out there with them.”
John Gibson made 18 saves in the loss.
“I felt like 5-on-5 we were doing a pretty good job out there,” the Ducks’ Jani Hakanpaa said. “We had our looks there to put the puck in, just didn’t bounce for us tonight, so just got to keep working, keep grinding here.”
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