Robert Thomas scored twice and the St. Louis Blues beat the New York Rangers 6-2 to snap a four-game shedding streak
ST. LOUIS — Robert Thomas scored twice and the St. Louis Blues beat the New York Rangers 6-2 Thursday evening to snap a four-game shedding streak.
David Perron, Jake Walman, Ivan Barbashev and Ryan O’Reilly additionally scored for the Blues, who had been 0-3-1 of their skid and remained two factors forward of Minnesota in second place within the Central Division. Ville Husso made 27 saves to enhance to 14-4-3 on the season.
Ryan Strome and Okay’Andre Miller scored for the Rangers. Igor Shesterkin gave up 4 objectives on 17 photographs earlier than changed by Alexander Georgiev, who completed with 16 saves because the Rangers misplaced their second in a row after profitable three straight.
Thomas tapped in a feed from Jordan Kyrou previous Shesterkin for his ninth objective of the season to place St. Louis up 1-0 with 6:55 left within the first interval.
Barbashev scored his 18th objective of the season 45 seconds in a while a go from Brandon Saad to develop St. Louis’ result in 2-0.
Thomas adopted along with his second objective of the sport and career-high tying tenth of the season with 4:19 remaining within the first to make it 3-0.
Strome scored his thirteenth objective of the season on an influence play with 1:23 remaining within the interval to get the Rangers on the scoreboard.
O’Reilly roofed his thirteenth over Shesterkin 15 seconds into the second to place St. Louis up 4-1 and finish Shesterkin’s evening.
Jake Walman, who was a last-minute addition to the lineup, scored his third of the season on a delayed penalty at 7:07 to make it 5-1 and Perron added his 14th simply 38 seconds later for a five-goal lead.
Miller scored his fifth objective of the season on an influence play with 7:37 remaining within the second shut the scoring. Artemi Panarin assisted on the objective giving him assists in 4 straight video games.
GOOD AS GOLD:
US girls’s hockey goaltender Alex Cavallini was in attendance. Cavallini was a member of the silver medal 2022 Olympic staff and received a gold medal with Staff USA in 2018.
BLUENOTE SHUFFLE:
Blues LW Pavel Buchnevich was scratched as he stays in concussion protocols after taking a shot to the pinnacle Tuesday evening towards Ottawa. … C Logan Brown returned to the lineup after being a wholesome scratch for St. Louis’ final seven video games and 14 of the staff’s final 15 video games. … C Tyler Bozak (non-COVID sickness) was a late scratch after taking part within the morning skate forcing St. Louis to decorate seven defensemen and 11 forwards.
UP NEXT:
Rangers: At Dallas on Saturday evening to conclude a four-game highway journey.
Blues: At Nashville on Saturday.
