In St Louis, Marc-Andre Fleury made 34 saves and the Vegas Golden Knights swept their two-game set with the Blues off a 5-1 win on Saturday night.
Mark Stone had two goals for the Knights, both in a four-goal third period.
“Four-and-two on a long, grueling road trip, a couple back-to-backs,” Stone said. “Mostly we didn’t like the way we played in Minnesota, [but] there were key points in the game [tonight] and I think we kind of won all those key matchups at critical times.”
Shea Theodore gave Vegas a 1-0 with his first goal in 16 games.
“We responded exactly how I expected this group to respond,” Vegas head coach Peter DeBoer said. “Nobody was happy coming out of the second Minnesota game. We had lost two in a row for the first time in a long time. We responded like I said in the opening of the press conference with two gritty, gutsy efforts from everybody.”
Sammy Blais had the Blues’ only high note of the night.
“Sammy made a nice move in front and got us back into it, and [we] just didn’t probably have the response as a team that we needed to,” the Blues’ Brayden Schenn said.
Max Pacioretty and Alex Tuch (empty net) also scored in the third period.
“I think my success goes hand in hand with the team’s success,” Stone said. “When we’re winning games, everybody’s numbers get inflated. We’re playing good hockey right now. When we’re playing well, our depth allows everybody to have a good matchup.”
Ville Husso made 21 saves in the loss.
“They’re going to be a better team if we don’t execute and do the right things that’s needed,” St. Louis head coach Craig Berube said. “It doesn’t matter who it is. It’s just we don’t have enough guys that are pulling on the same rope here, and we need that. … We need everybody in the lineup to do the right things and pull on the same rope, and right now, we don’t.”
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