In Seattle, the St Louis Blues’ Ville Husso made 27 saves in a 5-0 shutout of the Kraken on Friday.
“I told you we’re going to use both goalies (Husso and Jordan Binnington) and we are continuing to do that,” St. Louis head coach Craig Berube said. “Ville came off a real good outing and it was just as a decision that I went with.”
Tyler Bozak (shorthanded) and Brayden Schenn scored for the Blues.
St Louis improved to 24-11-5.
The shutout survived an early penalty kill the Blues faced.
“After that penalty kill, I felt like I was in the game,” Husso said. “I think for a goalie it’s a lot of mental stuff and when you get a couple of games you feel good, that’s hockey. There was a lot of blocking shots. Have to give credit to the [defensemen] and the forwards, and I wish we could play like that every game. Every day, I try to get better and work hard.”
The Kraken fell to 12-24-5.
“We fall behind early, we’re down 2-0 and we’re fighting to try and get back in the game,” Seattle’s Jordan Eberle said. “Probably pressing more than we should and we hung Joey out to dry too much. They had a ton of chances and Joey played really well. He had some huge saves and kept it tighter than perhaps it was, we played better in the second, and then in the third, first shift, we let one in … we had a little bit of momentum after winning two in a row, had a chance to win back to back. Obviously, it didn’t go our way.”
Bozak and Schenn scored in the first period for a 2-0 lead.
“[Shorthanded goals are] always a Iift and I thought our penalty killers did a great job,” Berube said. “We took too many penalties, a couple were unnecessary, but the PK did a great job. And the power-play goals are big goals too. But when you get a shorthanded goal, it’s a huge lift. And it’s all work-based basically. So our PK did a lot of good things for us tonight.”
Pavel Buchnevich pushed the lead to 3-0 with 24 seconds gone in the third period.
“That’s a good team over there, they don’t give up much and we didn’t generate much at all against them,” the Kraken’s Mark Giordano said. “A lot of it has to do with mindset, simple is always better to me in starting games, getting pucks in. Tonight, it’s a shorthanded goal … at the end of the day getting behind in this league is way too hard to come back. Especially against a team that plays as structured as they do.”
Colton Parayko scored off a penalty shot at the 7:40 mark of he third for a 4-0 lead.
“I don’t think I’ve had a penalty shot in a game before,” Parayko said. “I like going for that move in practice, I guess I just stuck to my guns there. I was kind of in between what I was going to do. I didn’t really think about the speed, it was just me and the goalie.”
Jordan Kyrou a closed out the scoring near the midway point of the final frame for the 5-0 final score.
Joey Daccord made 26 saves in the Seattle loss.
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