Dallas Stars v. St. Louis Blues
Game 5 – Series Tied 2-2
Game Recap:
Going into Game 5 both the Dallas Stars and the St. Louis Blues look to gain the advantage in their now best of three series, and it would be the Stars who would get things started as Jason Spezza would net his third of playoffs in the first three minutes of the game to give the Stars a 1-0 lead.
To start the second period the Stars would come out buzzing and kill the Blues powerplay, and then a little over six minutes into the period Alexander Radulov wouldnfeedva beautiful pass to Esa Lindell who would backhand it off of Blues defender Jay Bouwmeester to make it 2-0. The Blues would get two more powerplay opportunities, but would squander both of them as the Stars would play very toght hockey to prevemt amy opportunities.
Then going into the third period the Blues would force the play, and it would pay off as while attacking the net Jaden Schwartz would find a loose pick and throw it towards the goal past Ben Bishop to cut the Stars lead to one. Then 21 seconds after scoring, Jamie Benn would be called for hooking, but the Stars penalty kill was perfect once again. The Blues would keep pushing, but the Stars woild hold on to win the game 2-1 to take a 3-2 series lead.
Lineups:
Dallas Stars:
Jason Dickinson — Tyler Seguin — Mats Zuccarello
Jamie Benn — Roope Hintz — Alexander Radulov
Andrew Cogliano — Radek Faksa — Blake Comeau
Jason Spezza — Justin Dowling — Mattias Janmark
Esa Lindell — John Klingberg
Miro Heiskanen — Roman Polak
Dillon Heatherington — Ben Lovejoy
Ben Bishop
Anton Khudobin
Scratched: Valeri Nichushkin, Gavin Bayreuther, Brett Ritchie, Taylor Fedun, Landon Bow, Tyler Pitlick
Injured: Jamie Oleksiak (lower body), Marc Methot (lower body), Martin Hanzal (back), Stephen Johns (upper body), Joel Hanley (upper body)
St. Louis Blues:
Jaden Schwartz — Ryan O’Reilly — Vladimir Tarasenko
Brayden Schenn — Oskar Sundqvist — David Perron
Pat Maroon — Tyler Bozak — Robert Thomas
Robby Fabbri — Ivan Barbashev — Alexander Steen
Joel Edmundson — Alex Pietrangelo
Jay Bouwmeester — Colton Parayko
Vince Dunn — Carl Gunnarsson
Jordan Binnington
Jake Allen
Scratched: Robert Bortuzzo, Michael Del Zotto, Sammy Blais, Zach Sanford, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn, Ville Husso
First Period:
Stars Goal – 2:42 – Jason Spezza (3) from Tyler Seguin (7) and Mattias Janmark (2)
Blues Penalty – 6:57 – Brayden Schenn 2 minutes for Hooking
Stars Penalty – 19:24 – Roman Polak 2 minutes for Holding
End of 1st – DAL – 1 STL – 0
Shots 00 00
Faceoffs 00 00
Hits 00 00
PP 0/1 0/0* 1st in progress
Second Period:
Stars Goal – 6:13 – Esa Lindell (1) from Alexander Radulov (5) and John Klingberg (7)
Stars Penalty – 9:47 – Blake Comeau 2 minutes for Hooking
Stars Penalty – 17:14 – Andrew Cogliano 2 minutes for High Sticking
End of 2nd – DAL – 2 STL – 0
Shots 22 24
Faceoffs 22 27
Hits 11 24
PP 0/1 0/3
Third Period:
Blues Goal – 8:26 – Jaden Schwartz (7) from unassisted
Stars Penalty – 8:47 – Jamie Benn 2 minutes for Hooking
Blues Penalty – 20:00 – Brayden Schenn 2 minutes for Slashing
End of 3rd – DAL – 2 STL – 1
Shots 27 39
Faceoffs 31 33
Hits 14 30
PP 0/1 0/4
Next Up:
Game 6 – DAL Leads 3-2
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