Brandon Saad scored twice and had an assist, Ville Husso struck 28 times to win his sixth consecutive start, and the St. The Louis Blues scored a 5-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night.
St. Louis Blues left wing Brandon Saad (20), center, is congratulated after scoring a goal while Calgary Flames center Sean Monahan (23) watches during the first period of an NHL hockey game on Thursday, January 27, 2022, in St. Louis. . Louis.
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Brayden Schenn had a goal and an assist, and Jordan Kyrou and Ryan O’Reilly also played for St. Louis.
The Blues had taken some revenge for a blowout loss three days earlier in Calgary. The Flames outscored the Blues 48-21 on Monday in their 7-1 victory over the Blues.
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Husso, who has made his fourth start in five games, has won all six of his starts since returning on January 7 from a hamstring injury. He has played in five consecutive games; he came in for the third period in Monday’s match in relief from Jordan Binnington.
Mikael Backlund scored the only goal for Calgary, who had 29 shots per day after a 6-0 win over Columbus during which the Flames had a franchise record of 62 shots – the highest total in a regular NHL. match since March 1989.
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St. Louis struck first when Saad scored at 6:15 of the opening period. Schenn fed a striped Seed just inside the blue stripe on the left wing, and Saad buried a wrist of the left circle to beat Jacob Markstrom. Torey Krug passed the outlet in the middle to Schenn to begin the play.
Calgary tied it at 1 when Backlund scored from a difficult angle at 10:34. Andrew Mangiapane sent the shot to Backlund, who struck a wrist shot from the side of the goal to the bottom of the right circle.
St. Louis responded by scoring the pull-before goal at 1:59 p.m. Schenn got the shooter near the red line of Niko Mikkola and chased up the ice and scored in the top right corner of the net.
Seed’s second goal has St. Louis took a 3-1 lead at 9:57 in the second. The shooter came from a Flames stick from behind the net and Saad, in the slot, pushed it in quickly.
Louis scored twice in the third period. From behind the net, Robert Thomas got Kyrou in front of the net. Kyrou scored at 4:10 for a 4-1 lead. Kyrou has seven goals and seven goals over his last 11 games.
O’Reilly scored a power goal at 18:59.
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