On Tuesday, the St Louis Blues almost let a perfectly good rally get away from them.
Trailing 1-0 heading into the third, the Blues struck for three goals to take a 3-1 lead over the visiting Florida Panthers.
Then they watched as the Panthers rallied to tie before Brayden Schenn ended the Florida rally with a strike at 3:55 of the frame.
“I’ve got to do more of that, I’ve got to go to the net mo
Jake Allen got the win Tuesday over Florida – file photo courtesy of Lewis Bleiman
re, that’s where the puck’s always ending up,” Schenn said. “Whether it’s a tip or a rebound or a bounce like that, you go to the net, good things are going to happen, and I have to do a better job of getting there.”
David Perron added two strikes in the third period and Ivan Barbashev also scored for St Louis in the third.
“There was more consistency, that’s for sure. Even (when) we’re down 1-0 after two, I thought we were playing pretty good. We were carrying the play for the most part. You have to hope and keep doing the same thing that it was going to come,” Perron said after the game.
Jake Allen made 22 saves to get the win as the Blues improved to 11-14-4.
“We didn’t have that (fragile) feeling tonight. It didn’t feel like that, anyways, on the bench,” Schenn said. “Even though they came back and scored two, we were still upbeat, still full of confidence, and I think that comes from scoring goals in hockey games. You feel you can get another one, which we did, and we were able to stick with it and get a big win.”
Evgenii Dadonov, MacKenzie Weegar and Mike Hoffman had the Panthers’ goals.
“We didn’t capitalize on some of the chances we had in the second period when we really had the push going,” Florida head coach Bob Boughner said. “Therefore, the game stays at 1-0, and we hit the post and they came down, they score, 1-1, there’s still lots of game left, and then the very next shift again. So it’s that momentum thing where two shifts changed the game. We found a way to come back and you know they got one.”
Florida dropped to 11-12-6.
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Roberto Luongo made 29 savesin the loss.
“It was a tight game for the first two periods, and then all of the sudden, play opened up in the third, so it was another tough loss,” Luongo said.
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