Jaden Schwartz had two goals in the third period, and David Perron scored in the fourth round of the shootout to give the St. Louis Blues a 4-3 victory against the Minnesota Wild at Scottrade Center. After Wild forward Charlie Coyle tied it 3-3 with 1:08 remaining, Perron beat goalie Devan Dubnyk with a shot between the pads for the only goal in the shootout. Paul Stastny scored for St. Louis (12-7-3), which has won four in a row, has a nine-game home point streak (7-0-2), and is 9-1-2 overall at Scottrade Center. Jake Allen made 28 saves through overtime and stopped all four Minnesota shooters in the tiebreaker.
He is 7-0-2 at home. Mikko Koivu had a goal and an assist, Erik Haula scored, and Dubnyk made 35 saves for the Wild (11-7-3), who played the second of a back-to-back after a 6-2 home win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday. Schwartz tied the game 2-2 on a redirection of Perron's shot at 3:27 of the third, and then put the Blues ahead 3-2 with a power-play goal with a backhand from the slot at 4:30. Boudreau challenged the goal, claiming Dmitrij Jaskin interfered with Dubnyk, but video review showed Minnesota defenseman Ryan Suter caused Jaskin to contact the Minnesota goalie. The Wild took a 1-0 lead when Koivu received a pass from Jason Zucker in the high slot and beat Allen with a wrist shot at 11:36 of the first period. Stastny tied the game 1-1 when he scored off a pass from Perron at 7:41 of the second. Perron had two assists to extend his point streak to seven games, matching his NHL career high. Haula put the Wild back in front 2-1 at 9:43 of the second when he scored off Jason Pominville's backhand pass from below the goal line.
* Schwartz made a dangerous backhand pass toward the middle of the ice that Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo couldn't handle, but Allen made a sprawling glove save on Jason Zucker's quick shot with 2:27 remaining in overtime.
* After the Blues iced the puck with Dubnyk pulled for the extra attacker, Koivu won a faceoff against Jori Lehtera at 18:41 of the third period, 11 seconds before Coyle tied it.
* Blues forward Alexander Steen (upper body) missed his fifth straight game. ... Wild defenseman Nate Prosser played for the second time in the past 10 games. He replaced injured defenseman Christian Folin (MCL sprain). ... Schwartz has at least a point in nine of the past 10 games and has a six-game point streak (five goals, three assists).
Blues Quotes
"[Dubnyk] was staying low, but he was recovering pretty quickly. Just saw the other guys go and actually on the way down was thinking backhand like I like to do, and then I don't know, I tried something different, and it went in." Perron said
"Any time you get points in the division, it's like gold right now. We've got to keep this going." Ken Hitchcock said
"I think it was only our second shootout of the year, and that's the way it goes. Sometimes they go 4-for-4, sometimes they go 0-for-4, and when we have a chance to win, I want to put the nail in the coffin just like a player would, and I'm glad we got it done." Allen said.
"It would have been nice to close it out in regulation, team chasing us too, you give them an extra point, but we'll take the two points." Alex Pietrangelo
"[Jaden Schwartz] really on top of his game right now; he's really playing well. It's really good to see. He's just tenacious. The skill level and the timing of everything, I'm really happy for him. He's put so much work into it, and his level of determination is high." Ken Hitchcock said.
"It would have been nice to close it out in regulation, team chasing us too, you give them an extra point, but we'll take the two points." Alex Pietrangelo
"[Jaden Schwartz] really on top of his game right now; he's really playing well. It's really good to see. He's just tenacious. The skill level and the timing of everything, I'm really happy for him. He's put so much work into it, and his level of determination is high." Ken Hitchcock said.
Wild Quotes
"To get that equalizer, yeah, that's huge." Charlie Coyle"I guess we just wished we would have played [the way we did] after they got the lead when we had the lead." Erik Haula
"Anytime you can pull a goalie and get a goal, I think it makes you feel a little bit better. Obviously, you don't like to give up a lead in the third period, but we got a point on a tough week in a tough building, so we'll take that right now." Bruce Boudreau said.
Stars @ Blues 3-4 OT- Monday, November 28, 2016
Vladimir Tarasenko scored with 1:36 remaining in overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 4-3 win against the Dallas Stars at Scottrade Center. Tarasenko took a pass to the low slot from Jori Lehtera and beat goalie Antti Niemi for his 10th goal. David Perron, Robby Fabbri and Alex Pietrangelo also scored for the Blues (13-7-3), who have earned at least a point in 10 straight home games (8-0-2) and are 10-1-2 overall at Scottrade Center. St. Louis goalie Jake Allen made 18 saves for his sixth straight win. He is 8-0-2 at home. Dallas defenseman Jamie Oleksiak scored twice, including the tying goal with 49.9 seconds remaining.
It was the second straight game the Blues allowed a tying goal with a sixth attacker on the ice. The Minnesota Wild scored with 1:08 remaining Saturday before St. Louis won 4-3 in a shootout. Jamie Benn had a goal and two assists for the Stars (9-8-6), who began a four-game trip that continues Tuesday at the Detroit Red Wings. Niemi made 27 saves. Dallas is 1-6 in overtime. Fabbri gave the Blues a 1-0 lead with his first goal in six games with a snap shot to the short side at 13:36 of the first period. Pietrangelo made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 4:17 of the second period. Oleksiak beat Allen with a shot to the short side with 3:39 remaining in the second to make it 2-1, and Benn tied it 2-2 with a power-play goal 1:47 into the third with a quick shot after skating into the right faceoff circle. Perron gave the Blues a 3-2 lead at 13:12 of the third with his seventh goal. He has three goals and eight assists during an NHL career-high eight-game point streak. The Stars pulled Niemi, and Oleksiak's shot deflected off Pietrangelo and past Allen to tie it 3-3. The Blues will be looking to find a way to hold on to leads.
"It's frustrating; it just seems like we can't get any bounces. We all tried so hard to clear the puck right before that, but nobody cleared it, and those always come back to haunt you. I have one finger to hit left, and it hits my pinkie and finds a way to change direction." Pietrangelo said.
"There's real concern about the leads. There's real concern with what we gave up and how we did it. We played terrific and had full control of the hockey game, and we got careless on our checking and puck management." Ken Hitchcock said.
* It's not often a defenseman is able to dangle around a skater the way Oleksiak did before his first goal, but he did it to Perron and Pietrangelo before beating Allen to the short side to get the Stars back in the game.
* Niemi's save on Tarasenko with 1:55 remaining in the second period kept it a 2-1 game and gave the Stars a chance to earn a point. It was a quick reaction off a Jay Bouwmeester shot blocked by Tyler Seguin.
* Fabbri's goal was the result of three perfect passes to spring him free. Tarasenko started the play by getting it to Lehtera, who passed to defenseman Robert Bortuzzo. Fabbri took a feed from Bortuzzo in stride and shot past Niemi to the short side.
* Allen already had allowed a Benn power-play goal to tie the game, but he made two crucial saves on the Stars captain, the first with 7:06 left, the second with 6:56 remaining, moments before Perron scored to give the Blues a 3-2 lead.
* Stars defenseman Julius Honka had two assists, giving him three in four games since being recalled from Texas of the American Hockey League. ... Schwartz extended his point streak to seven games (five goals, four assists) with an assist on Perron's goal. … Lehtera had two assists.
Blues Quotes
"I was almost going to go change there if [Jay Bouwmeester] doesn't give it to me, then I was patient myself, giving it to [Jaden] Schwartz on the wing. He was patient also, and you see [Paul Stastny] going down and it's almost like a short 2-on-1. Maybe the goalie's thinking about that, so I was able to go low blocker." David Perron"It's frustrating; it just seems like we can't get any bounces. We all tried so hard to clear the puck right before that, but nobody cleared it, and those always come back to haunt you. I have one finger to hit left, and it hits my pinkie and finds a way to change direction." Pietrangelo said.
"There's real concern about the leads. There's real concern with what we gave up and how we did it. We played terrific and had full control of the hockey game, and we got careless on our checking and puck management." Ken Hitchcock said.
Stars Quotes
"It's always nice to contribute. I think coming out of that game with one point is really big for us. ... I think it was a good hard point for all the boys, and I'm just happy to contribute." Jamie Oleksiak
"It wasn't pretty, but we got a point. I guess that's a positive. I like how we found a way to score late there, but this overtime is killing us right now." Jamie Benn said.
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