In Edmonton, the Vegas Golden Knights struck for three goals in the third period to erase a one-goal deficit and defeat the St Louis Blues, 6-4, on Thursday.
Alex Tuch and Shea Theodore had two goals each in the win.
“They have a lot of firepower, both teams are pretty deep,” Tuch said. “I think it was a little bit too back and forth at times with the chances, but we were able to close it out.”
Marc-Andre Fleury made 13 saves in the win.
“I thought those guys, they hop over the boards, they’re not just killing time, they’re looking to create offense and score, and they can be dangerous,” Vegas head coach Peter DeBoer said. “When [Tuch] is playing like that, he’s a hard guy to handle.”
Colton Parayko struck twice for the Blues.
“We have to make sure we’re dialed in there [at practice], working together, and after that we have to be ready for Sunday,” Parayko said. “Dallas is a good team, they always play us hard. So just make sure we play tight, play our style of hockey, and there’s no doubt we can do that.”
Mark stone and Zach Whitecloud also scored for the Knights.
“Home-ice advantage is not just playing at T-Mobile (in Las Vegas),” Stone said. “There’s last change, there’s little things like that that come to be so important in a playoff series. We came to Edmonton wanting to play our best hockey, whether that got us three wins or got us no wins. So long as we’re playing well, we feel confident against anyone.”
Troy Brower and David Perron added single markers for the Blues.
“We got a tight group,” Theodore said. “We know we can score goals. I thought we did a good job controlling the puck. We had a lot of good breakouts. I thought we had guys stepping in the lanes with some big blocks as well. It’s a team effort, but I think we did a great job.”
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Jordan Binnington made 32 saves in the loss.
“Listen, coming into this playoffs here, this round-robin, I’m not sure that our guys have really brought the intensity to the first two games,” Blues head coach Craig Berube said. “In the Colorado game (a 2-1 loss Sunday) there were spurts at times. But right now, these two games, the other teams have been more competitive and more hungry than we have. Our compete level has to come way up [against Dallas].”
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