Jaden Schwartz scored late in the third period as the Blues took a commanding lead in their opening-round playoff series, beating the Wild 2-1 on Friday night, giving St. Louis a chance to sweep on home ice.
Booed during the pregame lineup announcements by the overflow sellout crowd of 19,168, a href='https://apnews.com/4e6e41ebf76249f4ada0eb0ab79e0a92/Yeo, -it's-me:-Ex-Wild-coach-leads-Blues-into-playoff-matchup'Yeo settled in for just his 33rd game as boss of the Blues/a following the firing of Ken Hitchcock that triggered the early promotion and a 22-8-2 finish. They will fly back to St. Louis on Tuesday before the Wednesday night game.
Nearly any way you look at it, Jake Allen is playing the best hockey in the highest stakes of his professional career right now. I don't use big words. For me, it's just about staying focused and playing a really strong game. "We have to continue to play the way we played yesterday".
NOTES: Four members of the US women's hockey team, Twin Cities area natives Hannah Brandt, Kelly Pannek, Lee Stecklein and Maddie Rooney, led the crowd in the "Let's Play Hockey" chant before the opening faceoff. "We weren't too happy with the way we played, but luckily (Allen) came to play and he stood on his head and got us the win".
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The 29-year-old native Czech wound up a wrist shot that deflected off Christian Folin and past Dubnyk after Folin tripped. Left wing Zach Parise scored to tie it up with only 23 seconds left in the third period, but the team ultimately fell 2-1 in overtime. "But things aren't going the right way, so he's probably not playing with as much confidence as you'd like to think they'd be playing with".
"We're real happy we got both wins in here, but I know that's not a team that's gonna quit", said Yeo, who coached the Wild for parts of five seasons before he was sacked in February of last season. We're going to expect the exact same thing. These guys are trying right to the end; they're trying as bad as everybody. "They want to bring it home to Minnesota, and right now, it's not working".
The tattered playbook for confronting 0-3 series deficits offers clichés and rote wisdom like Yoda preaching about conquering the dark side and living to fight another day.
With Yeo now directing strategy, using to his advantage almost five years of insight into the Wild's personalities, preferences and tendencies, the Blues kept up their stifling defense by packing those big bodies in the middle of their zone. After the Wild outplayed the Blues in most every aspect of the sport save for goaltending in the first two games, the Blues weren't looking to steal another win-they wanted to dominate one.
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Rinne made 30 saves in his second straight shutout and picked up two assists, helping Nashville rout Chicago 5-0 on Saturday for a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.
But the Blues regained the edge, and it was thanks to a power play that had not produced anything in the first eight tries. Schwartz had a power-play goal at 15:19 of the second period to put the Blues one win away from the second round.
Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk will have to step up in net if the Wild are going to climb back into the series.
"Special teams were huge", Schwartz said.
You can forget about winning the series at this point. Our PK was great tonight. "And then we'll think of something before Friday".
It's been that kind of run for the St. Louis Blues goaltender.
Crosby had a goal and two assists, Guentzel scored the first National Hockey League playoff goal. and Sheary added a brilliant secondary assist as the Penguins rolled by the frustrated Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 on Friday in Game 2 of the first-round series.
"I'm in the same boat". Blues fans didn't have to wait long to erupt Berglund carried the puck deep into the offensive zone before dishing to a waiting Colton Parayko. "He's been phenomenal. It's fun to watch, fun to be a part of".
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