Bortuzzo (upper body injury), who missed Game 1 and the last five games of the regular season, replaced rookie Jordan Schmaltz.
Will the St. Louis Blues take a commanding 3-0 lead on the Minnesota Wild when the two meet in Game 3 of their series today at 3PM ET? It went straight to Parise, who knocked it in for his second goal in as many games.
Alexander Steen had a goal and an assist, Patrik Berglund had a pair of helpers and Colton Parayko and Jaden Schwartz scored for the Blues.
"That's how it goes sometimes - not ideal".
The most frustrating thing about this series is that the best players for Minnesota in the regular season have made little to no impact through the first three games.
Charlie Coyle could not hit water if he fell off a dock right now, but the rest of Minnesota's forwards leveraged an endless supply of premium scoring chances that left them feeling more confident than snakebitten. "Obviously we're happy to be in our situation, but until it's over it's not and we have to keep working hard".
Allen made 40 saves in a 3-1 win against the Minnesota Wild in Game 3 of the Western Conference First Round at Scottrade Center. But Allen was up to the challenge, and he did what he could to keep the Blues' one goal lead until Steen scored an empty-net goal at 18:49 of the third to make it 3-1.
Colton Parayko gave the Blues the early lead just 3:25 into the opening period as he beat goalie Devan Dubnyk with a wrist shot after a flawless set up by Patrik Berglund. Allen sparkled again for the Blues, bringing his total to 74 saves from 76 shots across two games.
With Montreal leading 1-0, the Rangers' Mats Zuccarello was whistled for a double-minor for high-sticking 4:07 into the third. Parise spoiled it with his one-timer off a tic-tac-toe feed from Mikko Koivu and Mikael Granlund with goalie Devan Dubnyk pulled. Really, it's all three games have been that way.
"One game at a time, you must take".
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This dilemma arrived because the St. Louis Blues scored with just 2:27 remaining in regulation and grabbed their second consecutive 2-1 victory over the Wild Friday night in front of a season-high crowd of 19,404 at the Xcel Energy Center.
Blues Goaltender Jake Allen continued his dominance during this series, finishing with 23 saves on 24 shots.
"I think he was just saving it all for the playoffs". One extra-attacker goal to force overtime. "It's not like they're getting chance after chance", said Wild forward Eric Staal. "That's a good test against a good team". "We're doing a good job focusing on ourselves and it was a gutsy win tonight".
The end to Wednesday's nerve-frying opening act between the Wild and Blues came one stroke after midnight Thursday but the thrills have only just begun in this best-of-seven theater.
A 3-0 series lead against a team that many national pundits predicted would dispatch the Blues-it's a remarkable feat.
Still, the Wild know what's at stake on Friday. if you let an underdog stick around for too long, they start to believe. With that lack of production, it's no surprise that Minnesota is down three games to none. Instead of playing with insane prices, I'm going to play a rare total and back the over five goals. Like our whole goal is to win Wednesday.
Though the third period was intense, and included power play opportunities for the Wild, the Blues held serve. "The growth they're going to get playing in these types of games is huge". "We've got to find a way to win one, to do our best in Game 4". "I'm not very good with words".
"He does everything well, especially shoot the puck", Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo said of Parayko.
"Lights-out, I guess. He's calm back there". "We generated a lot of shots and chances, and didn't give up much".
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