ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brayden Schenn, Tyler Tucker and Justin Faulk every scored second interval objectives to assist the St. Louis Blues beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-1 on Sunday to tie their playoff collection at 2-all after dropping the primary two video games in Winnipeg.
Robert Thomas and Jake Neighbours additionally scored, and Jordan Binnington made 30 saves for St. Louis, which has received 14 straight common season and playoff video games at house relationship again to Feb. 23.
“We knew where we were,” Faulk stated.
“We had a job to do when we came back. Start with the first one, come in and try and play well, get to our game. Obviously, the first one went pretty well and went our way. We knew we had to try and recreate that again today.”
Kyle Connor scored, and Connor Hellebuyck made 13 saves for Winnipeg earlier than being pulled after Thomas scored his second purpose of the playoffs 2:01 into the third interval.
Eric Comrie made 5 saves in reduction of Hellebuyck, who has allowed at the least 4 objectives in 10 of his final 13 playoff appearances and has been pulled in consecutive video games for simply the second time in his profession counting the common season.
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“I can look at all the goals,” Jets coach Scott Arniel stated.
“Those are coverage goals. Those are things that we usually handle pretty well. We didn’t tonight.”
Schenn gave the Blues a 3-1 lead with 2:37 remaining within the second interval when he wristed a puck within the crease over Hellebuyck for his first purpose of the playoffs simply 5 seconds after Jets captain Adam Lowry returned from serving a roughing penalty.
“The benefit of having guys like (Jordan) Kyrou, Schenn and Neighbours on your second line is you get favorable matchups at home.,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery stated.
“Give credit to them for taking advantage of it, scoring at the end of the power play and getting that other big goal 5-on-5. When you see a skilled player like Jordan Kyrou being at the net front helping create screens, you know your team’s really invested.”
Tucker scored his first profession playoff purpose on a slap shot from the purpose to present the Blues a 2-1 lead with 9:04 left within the second interval. Tucker wanted assist leaving the ice with 4:17 remaining within the sport after his legs slammed into the boards awkwardly as Oskar Sundqvist delivered a success on Brandon Tanev subsequent to him.
“I don’t have an update,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery stated about Tucker. “His goal was huge for us getting a lead and being able to play with the lead. I thought he was really aggressive. I thought that was his best game of the three games.”
Neighbours used the blade of his keep on with deflect a shot from Colton Parayko previous Hellebuyck for his first profession playoff purpose with 23 seconds remaining within the first interval.
“It felt really good because I felt I had multiple instances where I could have made a difference on their first goal,” Neighbours stated. “It was good to get one again for the group.
The emotion of it, it’s simply thrilling. It’s the playoffs, you need to compete to your group and assist out any means you possibly can. It was an excellent feeling.”
Connor scored his third purpose of the postseason with 6:02 left within the first interval to present Winnipeg a 1-0 lead.
“You’ve got to reset,” Jets defenseman Luke Schenn stated.
“I don’t think anyone expected this to be an easy series, at least, personally, I didn’t. I watched the Blues’ last two months of the season — they’re the hottest team in the NHL for a reason, and have the best home record and didn’t lose at home down the stretch.”
The Jets and Blues return to Winnipeg for Sport 5 Wednesday night time.
