In Los Angeles Thursday, the St Louis Blues’ Jake Allen did not make it past the five-minute mark as he was trailing the Kings, 3-0, and was replaced by Carter Hutton in a 5-1 loss for the Blues.
Trevor Lewis had a goal for LA and Jake Muzzin and Tanner Pearson each had a pair in the win.
“We are capable of playing that way, we just have to continue to be consistent game to game,” Muzzin said. “We were dropping in the standings, it’s time to put a roll together here, so it’s a good start.”
Paul Stastny had the lone Blues goal as St Louis fell to 21-16-5.
“Obviously you can’t let that many goals in, and we’ve been beating a dead horse (saying) we need better goaltending,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. “But it seems like right now we’re at a stage where every mistake goes in our net.”
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Allen has been having issues of late and is 3-7-0 in 11 starts and got no sympathy from his head coach.
“This is on the athlete,” Hitchcock said. “There’s times in your young career where you’ve just said you’ve had enough and you’ve got to go and turn it around the other way. He’s in a position where he’s the guy that has to really take charge here. He’s got to man up and get better, and we’ve got to get better in front of him.”
Peter Budaj made 21 saves for the LA win.
“I think the one thing that we have to address from a team-play standpoint is that we need to get way greasier, way dirtier into the garbage areas,” Hitchcock said, “That’ll help us. We’ve scored quite a few goals as of late, but when you’re playing against a team like L.A. who defends as well as they can defend, they made it hard on us and we didn’t get there until the third period.”
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