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Blues Lineup:
Jaden Schwartz - Brayden Schenn - Sammy Blais
Zach Sanford - Ryan O’Reilly - David Perron
Alexander Steen - Tyler Bozak - Robert Thomas
Mackenzie MacEachern - Ivan Barbashev - Oskar Sundqvist
Defense
Colton Parayko - Alex Pietrangelo
Jay Bouwmeester - Justin Faulk
Vince Dunn - Carl Gunnarsson
Goalie
Jordan Binnington
Game Highlights:
First Period -
Just a minute and 15 seconds into the game Sammy Blais committed his first penalty of the night. Fortunately nothing came of it. The Blues also had a power play in the first. Bad news was that the Blues didn’t score. Good news was that they didn’t give up a short handed goal either. (Ok, I’m gonna go ahead and kill that joke...for now). Neither team scored in the first.
Shots MIN: 12 STL: 7
Second Period -
Sammy Blais redeemed himself a little in the second period. The Winger scored his fourth of the year on a pass from Ryan O’Reilly. Wild starter Devan Dubnyk was beaten high on the wrist shot. 1-0 Blues with 13:08 to go in the second period.
Less than two minutes had gone by when Mats Zuccarello netted an Eric Staal pass right in front of the net. The puck bounced off of Justin Faulk’s skate. Zuccarello swatted the puck past Binnington to tie the game at one.
Shots in the second period were 13-12 in favor of the Blues.
Third Period -
The Blues were able to pull ahead for good in the third. With less than 2 minutes gone in the period, the Blues connected on a beautiful effort. Both David Perron with the pass to find Alex Pietrangelo, and then Pietrangelo to finish it off. Pietrangelo scored his fifth “pay the man” goal of the year. Ryan Suter was also called out at second with the bad slide job.
One of, if not the best Wild chance came off of a one timer from Matt Dumbass, er Dumba. O’Reilly made an effort to stop Dumba on the one time shot. Dumba was able to get it off, but Binnington was right there to make the point blank save keeping it a one goal game.
That would be all she wrote for this one. The Blues take home the 2-1 win at Enterprise. Next up for the 7-3-3 Blues is Columbus on Friday night.
Final shot counts were 36-26 in favor of the Wild.
Twits and Tweets:
A few postgame comments before all the candy shows up -
Alex Pietrangelo, Jordan Binnington, and Craig Berube discuss tonight's win against Minnesota. #stlblues pic.twitter.com/hPk2remVa0
— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) October 31, 2019
From the Sunny isn’t wrong department -
Perron was asked about his 12 shot attempts, and Sundqvist in the background chirps: "You should score with that many DP." Perron: "I hear ya Sunny!" #stlblues
— Lou Korac (@lkorac10) October 31, 2019
See, not all of us are bad...unless your woo’ing or singing Country Roads...(oh god, I’m sorry. I kid, I kid. I love you all.)
Only one #stlblues fan jumped in front of me after the game to remind me how "Minnesota sucks". Thank You for reminding how mediocre my team is...like I haven't noticed.
— Kyle Parker (@TheKyleParker) October 31, 2019
However, Blues fans are still good people. Tons of people high fiving me after the game. #mnwild
And finally, how they missed this live is unreal seeing how offside Sanford was. The fact that the Wild had to waste a challenge on this was kind of bullshit.
Explanation of Coach’s Challenge at 11:17 of the second period in the @mnwild / @StLouisBlues game. https://t.co/OWjCdILr3I
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) October 31, 2019
Player of the Game:
Halloween 2015. Long before we went Blues. Brett Hull went as a biker... I think. #stlblues pic.twitter.com/htk7A4KTKr
— Low-def Blues (@low_defBlues) October 30, 2019