Jake Allen, who stopped 74 of 76 Minnesota shots in the first two games on the road, made 40 saves, including 19 in the third period, as the Blues once again stymied the high-scoring Minnesota offense which finished second in the National Hockey League in the regular season with 266 goals. Charlie Coyle knocked in a rebound of a shot by Zach Parise, the first even-strength goal by the Wild in the series.
Game 2: Friday, April 14, St. Louis at Minnesota, 7 p.m. He was drilled into the boards during Friday night's game. They needed to keep the throttle down, or in the now-famous words of Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong, "when you have a team down 2-0, you need to take the knife and jam it through their eye into their brain and kill them".
Nashville leads series 1-0. The Anaheim Ducks should be brimming with confidence after continuing their run of home domination over the Calgary Flames.
Anaheim leads series 1-0. Sergei Bobrovsky had 42 saves. Game 3 is Sunday night in Columbus.
Murray was scheduled to start Game 1 but left after suffering a lower-body injury in warm-ups.
His club-record 102nd playoff appearance looked an bad lot like his 101st, when he held the Blue Jackets in check during an early push then waited for NHL's best offense to find its footing.
The awakening came earlier than in the series opener.
San Jose Sharks right wing Joonas Donskoi, left, from Finland, scores the winning goal against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday, June 4, 2016, during overtime of Game 3 in the NHL Stanley Cup Finals in San Jose, Calif. Sheary did the hard part: poke-checking the puck away from Bobrovsky behind the Columbus net and getting it to Guentzel in front.
Man, that was a total Mike Yeo win for the Blues in Game 1, wasn't it? Connor McDavid scored his first playoff goal in the third, also shorthanded, to put the Oilers up for the duration. Nobody could've seen this coming even two weeks.
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It was the first power-play goal in the series for the Blues in nine opportunities.
But Dubnyk especially didn't like the four-on-four scenario at a critical point in a tie game. Each time the Wild found momentary open space in the offensive zone, the Blues defense swarmed.
Jake Allen remained true to his regular routine Sunday morning before Game 3 of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
So much for Henrik Lundqvist not being able to beat the Montreal Canadiens. Michael Grabner, Mats Zuccarello and Rick Nash scored for NY. Columbus had a 51-30 edge in hits and a 40-32 edge in shots, yet the Jackets were soundly beaten.
As in their Game 1 overtime loss, however, Parise's goal was all Minnesota could manage.
Allen was standing tall a day after facing 52 shots and said he was feeling fine. "You've got to have second, third, fourth efforts". The Blues blocked 19 shots.
NY went ahead at 14:47 when Brendan Smith banked in a shot off Zuccarello from the left point.
Jake Guentzel scored his third goal of the game at 13:10 of overtime, and the Pittsburgh Penguins took a commanding lead in their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series with a 5-4 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday night.
Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk has been nearly as good as Allen, allowing two goals in each of the three games. Screened by David Perron, Dubnyk didn't track Schwartz's deep shot from the slot. He made some good saves.
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