In St Louis Sunday, Mikael Granlund potted a goal early in the third period to give the Minnesota Wild a 3-2 lead that they would hold the rest of the way to defeat the Blues.
“I hardly ever touched the puck,” said Granlund, who has 18 points (10 goals, eight assists) in the past 14 games. “There’s some little things I’ve tried to do better. It seems like pucks are really going in right now.”
Devan Dubnyk made 29 saves in the win; the Wild improved to 11-4-2.
“He’s (Granlund) our best offensive player. It’s pretty cool. That’s what he is, a really good hockey player,” Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau said.
Zach Parise and Joel Eriksson Ek scored in the middle frame for the Wild.
“Today was a hard game. The end of trips are always tough,” Parise said. “With the travel and the early start, it was a challenging game. But we scrambled and got ourselves a win.”
Minnesota went 5-2-0 on their franchise-long seven-game roadie.
The Blues ended their seven-game homestand with a 4-3-0 record.
Oskar Sundqvist and Alex Pietrangelo had the Blues’ goals.
“It stings. I think we’re all [ticked] off,” Blues center Ryan O’Reilly said. “It’s unacceptable. We’ve got to start making a push, we’ve got to start climbing, and especially against a team like that. We were there. We could have taken those two (points).”
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Chad Johnson made 15 saves in the loss.
“I feel like we did a lot of good things. We had opportunities to win, we had opportunities to score at the end, we just didn’t bury our chances. I felt we controlled a lot of the game. We still have to find a way to win. It would have been nice to finish this one on home ice,” Pietrangelo said after the game.
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