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WCF Game 6 Recap – San Jose Sharks v. St. Louis Blues

The St. Louis Blues enter game 6 with a chance to earn a birth in the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1970 (and really, the first meaningful one, and not a diluted conference title).

The first period started out with a bang with David Perron redirecting a Sammy Blais shot to give the Blues a quick 1-0 lead. After some staggeringly good play and control, San Jose took a penalty that let the Blues’ special teams go to work. This led to an almost immediate Vladimir Tarasenko goal (dare I say, snipe), to put the Blues up 2-0. They took this lead into the second period.

With the storm clouds over the city of St. Louis hopefully not acting as a portend, the Blues came out strong in the second, but it was San Jose’s Dylan Gambrell that added to the offense, scoring his first NHL goal, and cutting the Blues’ lead in half. This was short-lived as Brayden Schenn (finally finally) scored to bring the lead back to 2.

The third period began with San Jose getting a power play off of a Patrick Maroon trip. The Blues were able to kill it off, though San Jose kept pressuring. The Blues seemed to be playing this period not so much to win, rather not to lose, putting up zero shots as the period approached its halfway mark. After enduring this attack, the Blues capitalized again with Tyler Bozak scoring to make it 4-1. Barbashev would add an empty netter to make it 5-1.

The Blues will play the Boston Bruins for the Stanley Cup.

 

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WCF Game 5 Recap – St. Louis Blues v. San Jose Sharks

St. Louis Blues v. San Jose Sharks

Game 5 – Series Tied 2-2

 

Game Recap:

Heading into Game 5 both the San Jose Sharks and St. Louis Blues would look to win the first game of a now best of three series, and to start off both teams would trade a total of 5 odd man chances only to attribute to two hit posts and no goals scored. However, after the five minute mark Erik Karlsson would try to clear the puck up the boards and out of the zone, but it would take a weird bounce and stqy in the zone and go right to Oskar Lundqvist who would bomb it past Martin Jones to make it 1-0 for the visiting Blues.

 

Going into the second period the Blues would put on a forechecking clinic on the Sharks and it would lead to two goals. First goal had Vladimir Tarasenko getting a shot on goal only for Martin Jones to play the rebound right to Jaden Schwartz who would shoot it right into the open net. Then Tarasenko would be at it again as he would get fouled by Brent Burns while on a breakaway to receive a penalty shot, which Tarasenko would score on to make it a commanding 3-0 lead.

 

In the third period the Sharks would not do themselves any favors as they would take two penalties on the same play which would lead to Jaden Schwartz scoring his second of the game when he would chip the puck over Martin Jones to make it 4-0. Then much later in the period the Blues would continue their attack on a injury depleted Sharks team as Vladimir Tarasenko and Schwartz would tag team in the Sharks zone as Schwartz would score his third of the game, and second hat trick of the playoffs, to make it a 5-0 victory and give the Blues the 3-2 series lead heading into Game 6 Tuesday night in St. Louis.

 

Lineups:

St. Louis Blues:

Jaden Schwartz — Brayden Schenn — Vladimir Tarasenko

Sammy Blais — Ryan O’Reilly — David Perron

Pat Maroon — Tyler Bozak — Robert Thomas

Ivan Barbashev — Oskar Sundqvist — Alexander Steen

Joel Edmundson — Alex Pietrangelo

Jay Bouwmeester — Colton Parayko

Carl Gunnarsson — Robert Bortuzzo

Jordan Binnington

Jake Allen

Scratched: Robby Fabbri, Michael Del Zotto, Zach Sanford, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn, Ville Husso

Injured: Vince Dunn (upper body)

 

San Jose Sharks:

Timo Meier — Logan Couture — Gustav Nyquist

Evander Kane — Tomas Hertl — Joe Pavelski

Melker Karlsson — Joe Thornton — Kevin Labanc

Joonas Donskoi — Barclay Goodrow — Micheal Haley

Marc-Edouard Vlasic — Brent Burns

Brenden Dillon — Erik Karlsson

Joakim Ryan — Justin Braun

Martin Jones

Aaron Dell

Scratched: Dylan Gambrell, Tim Heed, Lukas Radil, Radim Simek, Antti Suomela, Marcus Sorensen

 

First Period:

Blues Goal – 5:50 – Oskar Sundqvist (4) from unassisted

Blues Penalty – 15:18 – Jay Bouwmeester 2 minutes for Delay of Game

 

End of 1st – STL – 1       SJ – 0

Shots              04                11

Faceoffs         10                08

Hits               18                  13

PP                 0/0                 0/1

 

Second Period:

Blues Goal – 3:05 – Jaden Schwartz (10) from unassisted

Blues Penalty Shot – 6:53 – Vladimir Tarasenko – Goal (7)

Sharks Penalty – 10:43 – Joonas Donskoi double minor for High Sticking

Blues Penalty – 11:23 – Tyler Bozak 2 minutes for Hooking

 

End of 2nd – STL – 3        SJ – 0

Shots               24                 16

Faceoffs          23                 18

Hits                 28                  35

PP                   0/2                  0/1

 

Third Period:

Sharks Penalty – 1:55 – Barclay Goodrow 2 minutes for Roughing

Sharks Penalty – 1:55 – Micheal Haley 2 minutes for Interference

Blues PPG – 2:19 – Jaden Schwartz (11) from David Perron (6) and Vladimir Tarasenko (4)

Sharks Penalty – 7:13 – Micheal Haley 2 minutes for Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Sharks Penalty – 7:13 – Micheal Haley 10 minute Misconduct

Sharks Penalty – 8:35 – Timo Meier 2 minutes for Tripping

Blues Penalty – 13:12 – Joel Edmundson 2 minutes for Slashing

Blues Goal – 16:02 – Jaden Schwartz (12) from Vladimir Tarasenko (5)

Sharks Penalty – 17:13 – Evander Kane 2 minutes for Goalie Interference

Sharks Penalty – 17:13 – Evander Kane 2 minutes for Slashing

Sharks Penalty – 17:13 – Evander Kane 10 minute Misconduct

 

End of 3rd – STL – 5         SJ – 0

Shots              40                   21

Faceoffs        36                    27

Hits               34                     52

PP                 1/8                   0/2

 

Next Up:

Game 6 – STL/SJ Leads Series 3-2

 

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WCF Game 4 Recap – San Jose Sharks v. St. Louis Blues

San Jose Sharks v. St. Louis Blues

Game 4 – SJ Leads 2-1

 

Game Recap:

Going into Game 4 the St. Louis Blues come into their home barn with a chip on their shoulder after how Game 3 ended in overtime in the San Jose Sharks favor, and it wouldn’t take long either for the Blues as Ivan Barbashev would get the puck on net and past Martin Jones to make it 1-0 35 seconds into the game. Then later in the period on their second powerplay opportunity the Blues would strike again as Justin Braun would inadvertently kick the puck between Jones’ legs to give the Blues a 2-0 lead going into the first intermission.

 

Going into the second period both teams would share opportunities, and also featuring a Sharks powerplay that they could not do anything with. Both teams would get some godd chances at both ends, but the game would remain 2-0 going into the second intermission.

 

In the third period it would be special teams striking again, but this time for the Sharks as Brent Burns would bomb a shot through Jordan Binnington and Tomas Hertl would tap the puck in to make it 2-1 on the powerplay. Then in the final two minutes of the game the Sharks would pull Jones for the extra attacker and they would force great pressure in the Blues zone, but the Blues would withstand the surge and take Game 4 2-1 to tie the series at two games a piece.

 

Lineups:

San Jose Sharks:

Timo Meier — Logan Couture – Gustav Nyquist

Evander Kane — Tomas Hertl — Joe Pavelski

Melker Karlsson — Joe Thornton — Kevin Labanc

Marcus Sorensen — Barclay Goodrow — Joonas Donskoi

Marc-Edouard Vlasic — Brent Burns

Brenden Dillon — Erik Karlsson

Joakim Ryan — Justin Braun

Martin Jones

Aaron Dell

Scratched: Micheal Haley, Dylan Gambrell, Tim Heed, Lukas Radil, Radim Simek, Antti Suomela

 

St. Louis Blues:

Jaden Schwartz – Brayden Schenn — Vladimir Tarasenko

Sammy Blais – Ryan O’Reilly — David Perron

Pat Maroon — Tyler Bozak – Robert Thomas

Ivan Barbashev – Oskar Sundqvist – Alexander Steen

Joel Edmundson – Alex Pietrangelo

Jay Bouwmeester – Colton Parayko

Carl Gunnarsson – Robert Bortuzzo

Jordan Binnington

Jake Allen

Scratched: Robby Fabbri, Michael Del Zotto, Zach Sanford, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn, Chris Butler, Ville Husso

Injured: Vince Dunn (upper body)

 

First Period:

Blues Goal – :35 – Ivan Barbashev (1) from unassisted

Sharks Penalty- 5:09 – Brenden Dillon 2 minutes for Holding

Sharks Penalty – 17:44 – Timo Meier 2 minutes for Hooking

Blues PPG – 17:53 – Tyler Bozak (4) from Pat Maroon (4) and Vladimir Tarasenko (3)

 

End of 1st – SJ – 0       STL – 2

Shots              09                10

Faceoffs         11                09

Hits               11                  15

PP                 0/0                 1/2

 

Second Period:

Blues Penalty – 5:41 – Sammy Blais 2 minutes for Hooking

Blues Penalty – 8:24 – Brayden Schenn 2 minutes for Roughing

Sharks Penalty – 8:24 – Marc-Edouard Vlasic 2 minutes for Slashing

 

End of 2nd – SJ – 0        STL – 2

Shots               20                 18

Faceoffs          18                 18

Hits                 14                  24

PP                   0/1                  1/2

 

Third Period:

Sharks Penalty – 4:35 – Brenden Dillon 2 minutes for High Sticking

Blues Penalty – 6:01 – Alex Pietrangelo 2 minutes for Interference

Sharks PPG – Tomas Hertl (10) from Brent Burns (11) and Erik Karlsson (14)

Blues Penalty – 9:52 – Ivan Barbashev 2 minutes for Tripping

Sharks Penalty – 12:33 – Bench (Kevin Labanc) 2 minutes for Too Many Men

 

End of 3rd – SJ – 1         STL – 2

Shots              30                   22

Faceoffs        27                    32

Hits               15                     29

PP                 1/3                    1/4

 

Next Up:

Game 5 – Series Tied 2-2

 

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WCF Game 3 Recap – San Jose Sharks v. St. Louis Blues

The St. Louis Blues and San Jose Sharks started out about the same way all the games these playoffs have for the Blues – without them. The Blues mustered only four shots the entire period en route to a 2-0 deficit. Erik Karlsson scored the first goal (unassisted), followed by Joe Thornton’s first of the game.

The second period was entirely different. Alex Steen opened the scoring to cut the lead to 2-1. Thornton netted his second of the game to increase San Jose’s lead back to 2, but the much maligned (unfairly, to this writer), Vladimir Tarasenko brought the Blues back to 3-2. Now, the game got really fun. David Perron committed what should have been a delay of game penalty for shooting the puck over the glass, but it was missed by the referees (of note, it is very fun to see Peter DeBoer’s incredulous face). He then proceeded to score the next two goals to give the Blues a 4-3 lead entering the third.

The Blues generally outplayed the Sharks in the third, with no team scoring until about 1 minute left, where Couture tied the game at 4, after a series of laughable, contemptuous icings by Alex Pietrangelo, then a poor defense play by him. I generally think Petro is a wonderful player, but he has been simply bad this series.

 

Hey everyone! Michael here. Aryan asked me to take over and cover the overtime period(s) of this tightly contested Game 3 between the San Jose Sharks and St. Louis Blues.

 

In overtime both teams would trade chances in the first five minutes of the extra period, but then on a controversial play that saw Timo Meier bat the puck with his hand in front of the Blues net to Gustav Nyquist who would then pass it to Erik Karlsson who would shoot the puck past Jordan Binnington to win the game 5-4 in overtime and take the 2-1 series lead.

 

Clearly a hand pass by Meier, but unfortunately this is not a reviewable play and the fact that all four officials missed this call the goal cannot be reversed. St. Louis got the short end on this one and will be motivation going into Game 4.

 

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St. Louis Blues vs San Jose Sharks – Round 3 – Game 2 Recap

Game Recap:

The Blues came out from the gate determined to not hang their goalie Jordan Binnington out to dry like they did some many times in game one and it worked. The Blues came out and pressured in the first part of the period and scored the only goalie thanks to Blues potential Conn Smythe Candidate Jaden Schwartz. But the Blues couldn’t keep the Sharks at bay and they stormed back in the second half of the period with some pressure but couldn’t solve Binnington who I am sure was determined not to have another game like game 1.

The 2nd period would be the Logan Couture show as the penalties would begin to ramp up against San Jose, St.Louis would score once via Vince Dunn but Couture would score a goal Short-Handed to get the Sharks on the board and then would score less than 2 minutes later to tie the game at two apiece in the second period. But the Blues wouldn’t just lay down and die with less than 4 minutes left in the second tough guy defencemen Robert Bortuzzo would score to reinstate the St. Louis Blues lead heading into the 3rd period.

The 3rd period would be a swapping of penalties for both teams as they would both end up with no powerplay goals on the night. But with the Sharks pressing for the tying goal late the Blues Oskar Sundqvist would give the Blues some insurance with just over 3 minutes remaining and eventually seal the series tie at one apiece.

Lineups:

St. Louis

Jaden Schwartz – Brayden Schenn – Vladimir Tarasenko

Sammy Blais – Ryan O’Reilly – David Perron

Pat Maroon – Tyler Bozak – Christian Thomas

Ivan Barbashev – Oskar Sundqvist – Alex Steen

 

Joel Edmundson – Alex Pietrangelo

Jay Bouwmeester – Colton Parayko

Vince Dunn – Robert Bortuzzo

 

Jordan Binnington

Jake Allen

Scratched: None

Injuries: Carl Gunnarsson (Upper Body)

 

San Jose

Scratched:  None

Injuries: Radek Simek

 

GameDay:

First Period:

St.Louis Goal – 2:34 – Jaden Schwartz (10) assisted by Vladimir Tarasenko (2) and Joel Edmundson (4)

San Jose Penalty – 4:04 – Tomas Hertl, 2 minutes for Tripping

St. Louis Penalty – 6:34 – Jay Bouwmeester, 2 minutes for Tripping

San Jose Penalty – 15:46 – Evander Kane, 2 minutes for Tripping

End of 1st – STL – 1      SJS – 0

Shots              6                  9

Faceoffs        6/17          11/17

Hits                12                9

PP                 0/2                 0/1

Second Period:

St. Louis Goal – 4:16 – Vince Dunn (2) assisted by Ryan O’Reilly (8) and David Perron (5)

San Jose Penalty – 4:42 – Marcus Sorenson, 2 minutes for Interference

San Jose SH Goal – 4:55 – Logan Couture (12) unassisted

San Jose Goal – 6:54 – Logan Couture (13) assisted by Timo Meier (8)

St. Louis Goal – 16:34 – Robert Bortuzzo (1) assisted by Joel Edmundson (5) and Tyler Bozak (5)

San Jose Penalty – 19:31- Brendan Dillion, 2 minutes for Delay of Game

End of 2nd – STL – 3      SJS – 2

Shots               15                15

Faceoffs       15/36           21/36

Hits                24                  18

PP                   0/4                  0/1

Third Period:

St. Louis Penalty – 10:37 – Robert Thomas, 2 minutes for Hooking

San Jose Penalty – 12:42 – Joe Thornton, 2 minutes for Tripping

St. Louis Goal – 16:52 – Oskar Sundqvist (3) assisted by Alex Steen (2) and Alex Pietrangelo (10)

End of 3rd – STL – 4         SJS- 2

Shots              25                26

Faceoffs      23/54         31/54

Hits              35                 28

PP                 0/5                0/2

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St. Louis Blues vs San Jose Sharks – Round 3 – Game 1 Recap

Game Recap:

The Sharks opened the game with putting it all on the table as Logan Couture put the Sharks on board early. Schwartz would reply later on in the 3rd tying the game at one. But the Sharks would reply again on the powerplay thanks to the Captain Joe Pavelski. Making the score 2-1 Sharks after one.

The 2nd period would be another bad one for the St. Louis Blues. The Sharks would score 3 more goals to the Blues 1 and then the Blues would take a few more penalties. The same seemed so much out of reach.

The 3rd period would be a swapping of goals between the Blues and Sharks. A brawl would ensue at the end of the game and a lot of penalties. Expect the Blue to come out with a big game 2.

Lineups:

St. Louis

Jaden Schwartz – Brayden Schenn – Vladimir Tarasenko

Sammy Blais – Ryan O’Reilly – David Perron

Pat Maroon – Tyler Bozak – Christian Thomas

Ivan Barbashev – Oskar Sundqvist – Alex Steen

 

Joel Edmundson – Alex Pietrangelo

Jay Bouwmeester – Colton Parayko

Vince Dunn – Robert Bortuzzo

 

Jordan Binnington

Jake Allen

Scratched: None

Injuries: Carl Gunnarsson (Upper Body)

 

San Jose

Scratched:  None

Injuries: Radek Simek

 

GameDay:

First Period:

San Jose Goal – 3:31 – Logan Couture (10) assisted by Gustav Nyquist (8) and Timo Meier (8)

St.Louis Goal – 9:13 – Jaden Schwartz (9) assisted by Vladimir Tarasenko (1) and Brayden Schenn (4)

St. Louis Penalty – 9:36 – Jay Bouwmeester, 2 minutes for Interference

San Jose PP Goal – 11:24 – Joe Pavelski (4) assisted by Brent Burns (10) and Erik Karlsson (13)

St. Louis Penalty – 10:33 – Colton Paryako, 2 minutes for Slashing

End of 1st – STL – 1      SJS – 2

Shots              10              9

Faceoffs        11/27          16/27

Hits                22                13

PP                 0/1                 1/2

Second Period:

St. Louis Penalty – 2:57 – Tyler Bozak, 2 minutes for Hooking

San Jose Goal – 7:41 – Kevin Labanc (4) assisted by Joe Thornton (5)

St. Louis Goal – 8:58 – Ryan O’Reilly (3) assisted by Logan Couture (6)

San Jose Goal – 10:24 – Timo Meier (4) assisted by Joe Thornton (5)

San Jose Penalty – 13:23 – Melker Karlsson, 2 minutes for Delay of Game

San Jose Goal – 17:34 – Timo Meier (5) assisted by Marc-Edouard Vlasic (4) and Gustav Nyquist

End of 2nd – STL – 2      SJS – 5

Shots               19                20

Faceoffs        21/51           30/51

Hits                35                  25

PP                   0/1                  1/3

Third Period:

St. Louis Goal – 13:01 – Tyler Bozak (3) assisted by Pat Maroon (2) and Vince Dunn (5)

San Jose Goal – 17:39 – Logan Couture (11) assisted by Joe Pavelski (4) and Evander Kane (6)

St. Louis Penalty – 17:55 – Robert Bortuzzo, 5 minutes for Fighting

San Jose Penalty – 17:55 – Barclay Goodrow, 5 minutes for Fighting

St. Louis Penalty – 17:55 – Robert Bertuzzo, 2 minutes for Roughing

San Jose Penalty – 17:55 – Brandon Dillion, 2 minutes for Roughing

St. Louis Penalty – 17:55 – Robert Bortuzzo, Game Misconduct

San Jose Penalty – 17:55 – Barclay Goodrow, Game Misconduct

End of 3rd – STL – 3         SJS- 6

Shots              31                25

Faceoffs      31/73         42/73

Hits              41                 35

PP                 0/1                1/4

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Western Conference Finals Preview – St. Louis Blues v. San Jose Sharks

After a wild seven game series with the Dallas Stars, the Blues emerged victorious. Saturday, they continue their inexorable march to the Cup against the San Jose Sharks. Before breaking down the series, I’ll have to admit (though often considered a sacrilegious act to hockey fans), that I am a baseball fan and ardent supporter of the St. Louis Cardinals. As such, I noticed a quite interesting parallel between the World Series of 2011 against a Dallas-based team and the second round series with the Stars. Each series had game winners in this order: STL, DAL, STL, DAL, DAL, STL, STL.

So, instead of recalling the vituperative memories of the last time the Blues and Sharks played in the playoffs, let’s focus on the last time the STL and SF baseball teams played for a premonition:

Oh. Right.

Anyway, back to the better sport – the Blues and Sharks finished the regular season with similar point totals, though the Sharks finished two points ahead with 101 and will start the series at home.

The two teams met three times during the season, with the Blues going 1-1-1, including a 4-0 win and 4-0 loss in November (which, as we’ve seen before, does not really matter because that was before the team learned how to play hockey), as well as a 3-2 overtime loss, in a game without Vladimir Tarasenko.

Like with any series, there are a number of factors that could be ‘keys to the series’, but quite honestly, there really is only one important one – Martin Jones. Jones is about as bad as Ben Bishop is good, so if the Blues cannot win this series, and score a fair amount of goals, it is completely on them. Though San Jose sports Brent Burns and Erik Karlsson on defense, neither is particularly adept at defense these days. Since Burns, Karlsson, Joe Pavelski, Tomas Hertl, and Logan Couture are quite skillful offensively, the Blues simply need to play as strong of a game defensively as they did in game 7 against Dallas, and bide their time until they get their offensive chances.

To put how mediocre Jones is in perspective, let’s compare him to the much maligned Jake Allen, who absolutely was not good for the Blues during the season and a major reason for their stodgy start to the here. According to NaturalStatTrick, Martin Jones has a save percentage of .896, while Allen’s is .905. Allen has a GSAA of -5.91, while Jones has an astounding -22.87. GSAA is a metric that basically measures goals saved above average. While -5.91 isn’t great, it’s much better than -22. The only part where Jones beats Allen is in High Danger Save Percentage, with a paltry .806 to .796 edge.

Of course more goes into an evaluation of a goalie than simply his raw stats, most notably team defense, but at minimum we can conclude that San Jose is not good at keeping the puck out of their own net, and Jones himself is not good when facing high danger shots. If the Blues do not score against Jones, the last thing anyone should be doing is valorizing him, because in all likelihood it will be the shooters that are taking bad shots, as opposed to Jones making great and timely saves.

That’s basically it. Score goals. Just score goals. Play solid defense. And, above all else, don’t throw the puck in your own net:

Blues in 6.

Round 2 Game 7 – Dallas Stars v. St. Louis Blues

Dallas Stars v. St. Louis Blues

Game 7 – Series Tied 3-3

 

Game Recap:

Heading back to St. Louis after tying the series at three a piece the Blues look to close out the Dallas Stars in Game 7 at home, and to start the game the Blues would control the tempo of the game. However, it would be the Stars who would be doing the bulk of the shooting in the period, but it would be the Blues striking first as Vince Dunn would let a blast go that would get past a screened Ben Bishop to make it 1-0. Then the Stars would be the beneficiaries of a lucky bounce as a Blues pass behind the net and hit off of the referee’s foot and to the front of the net where Mats Zuccarello would get the puck and wrist it past a confused Jordan Binnington to tie the game at one to end the first period.

 

In the second period it would be all St. Louis as the Blues would control the tempo of the game for the majority of the second period that saw them outshoot Dallas 18-1. Also the Blues would draw two penalties against the Stars, but Dallas would play a very tight penalty kill that would prevent the Blues from getting any quality scoring chances.

 

Going into the third period the Blues would continue playing with the momentum and hem the Stars in their own zone, but Dallas have a couple good shifts against the Blues but could only muster 3 shots the entire period compared to the Blues 13 shots. Neither team would score thus forcing overtime.

 

In the first overtime period both teams would generate chances on net but both Ben Bishop and Jordan Binnington would stand tall in their respective nets.

 

Going into double overtime the Dallas Stars would start strong and come close on a Jamie Benn wrap around, but could not get it in the net. Then Robert Thomas would drive the net and ring the pick off the post then would take a fortunate bounce off of Bishop’s back and land in the crease for Pat Maroon to tap in to win the game and the series for the Blues as they head to the Western Conference Finals.

 

Lineups:

Dallas Stars:

Jason Dickinson — Tyler Seguin — Mats Zuccarello

Jamie Benn — Roope Hintz — Alexander Radulov

Andrew Cogliano — Radek Faksa — Blake Comeau

Brett Ritchie — Justin Dowling — Jason Spezza

Esa Lindell — John Klingberg

Miro Heiskanen — Roman Polak

Taylor Fedun — Ben Lovejoy

Ben Bishop

Anton Khudobin

Scratched: Valeri Nichushkin, Tyler Pitlick, Gavin Bayreuther, Dillon Heatherington, Landon Bow, Mattias Janmark

Injured: Stephen Johns (upper body), Marc Methot (lower body), Martin Hanzal (back), Jamie Oleksiak (lower body), Joel Hanley (upper body)

 

St. Louis Blues:

Jaden Schwartz — Brayden Schenn — Vladimir Tarasenko

Sammy Blais — Ryan O’Reilly — David Perron

Pat Maroon — Tyler Bozak — Robert Thomas

Ivan Barbashev — Oskar Sundqvist — Alexander Steen

Joel Edmundson — Alex Pietrangelo

Jay Bouwmeester — Colton Parayko

Vince Dunn — Carl Gunnarsson

Jordan Binnington

Jake Allen

Scratched: Robby Fabbri, Robert Bortuzzo, Michael Del Zotto, Zach Sanford, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn, Ville Husso

 

First Period:

Blues Goal – 13:30 – Vince Dunn (1) from Alex Pietrangelo (9) and Robert Thomas (3)

Stars Goal – 15:55 – Mats Zuccarello (4) from unassisted

 

End of 1st – DAL – 1       STL – 1

Shots              13                10

Faceoffs         15                10

Hits               07                  12

PP                 0/0                 0/0

 

Second Period:

Stars Penalty – 7:07 – Brett Ritchie 2 minutes for Tripping

Stars Penalty – 11:02 – John Klingberg 2 minutes for Tripping

 

End of 2nd – DAL – 1        STL – 1

Shots               14                 28

Faceoffs          24                 20

Hits                 14                  18

PP                   0/0                  0/2

 

Third Period:

N/A

 

End of 3rd – DAL – 1         STL – 1

Shots              17                   41

Faceoffs        32                    36

Hits               22                     29

PP                 0/0                    0/2

 

Overtime:

N/A

 

End of OT – DAL – 1         STL – 1

Shots              26                   52

Faceoffs        41                    46

Hits               23                     33

PP                 0/0                    0/2

 

Double Overtime

Blues Goal – 5:50 – Pat Maroon (3) from Robert Thomas (4) and Tyler Bozak (4)

 

End of 2OT – DAL – 1         STL – 2

Shots              30                   54

Faceoffs        44                    52

Hits               24                     33

PP                 0/0                    0/2

 

Next Up:

Western Conference Finals STL v. COL/SJ

 

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Round 2 Game 6 – St. Louis Blues v. Dallas Stars

St. Louis Blues v. Dallas Stars

Game 6 – DAL Leads 3-2

 

Game Recap:

Heading into Dallas for Game 6 the Stars look to close out the St. Louis Bluesat home, but it would be the Blues controlling the play off the opening faceoff as they would get the Dallas crowd out of it early as Alex Pietrangelo would score 63 seconds into the game for an early 1-0 lead. The Blues would continue to control the play, but the Stars gain some momentum after killing the first powerplay of the game for the Blues and would result in them forcing a powerplay of their own which would see Tyler Seguin tap in the loose puck over the goal line to tie the game at one.

 

In the second period both the Stars and the Blues would play a tightly contested chess match against eachother, but it would be the Blues breaking the tie as Oskar Sundqvist would fees David Perron in front of the net for a redirect into the net to make it 2-1 for the Blues going into the second intermission.

 

Going into the third period the Blues would go back to how they played in the first period as the Blues would score two goals 33 seconds apart. First it would be Jaden Schwartz redirecting an Alexander Steen shot on net after Colton Parayko injured Ben Bishop with a really hard point shot. Then Sammy Blais would score his first career playoff goal while on a 2 on 0 that would chase Bishop out of the net and bring in Anton Khudobin as the Blues increase their lead to 4-1. The Blues would hold on and force Game 7 on Tuesday night.

 

Lineups:

St. Louis Blues:

Jaden Schwartz – Ryan O’Reilly – Vladimir Tarasenko

Brayden Schenn – Oskar Sundqvist — David Perron

Pat Maroon — Tyler Bozak – Robert Thomas

Sammy Blais – 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, Zach Sanford, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn, Ville Husso, Robby Fabbri

 

Dallas Stars:

Jason Dickinson — Tyler Seguin – Mats Zuccarello

Jamie Benn – Roope Hintz — Alexander Radulov

Andrew Cogliano – Radek Faksa – Blake Comeau

Mattias Janmark – Justin Dowling — Jason Spezza

Esa Lindell — John Klingberg

Miro Heiskanen – Roman Polak

Dillon Heatherington – Ben Lovejoy

Ben Bishop

Anton Khudobin

Scratched: Valeri Nichushkin, Brett Ritchie, Tyler Pitlick , Gavin Bayreuther, Landon Bow

Injured: Stephen Johns (upper body), Marc Methot (lower body), Martin Hanzal (back), Jamie Oleksiak (lower body), Joel Hanley (upper body), Taylor Fedun (undisclosed)

 

First Period:

Blues Goal – 1:03 – Alex Pietrangelo (2) from Joel Edmundson (3) and Jaden Schwartz (3)

Stars Penalty – 3:06 – Mattias Janmark 2 minutes for High Sticking

Blues Penalty – 10:58 – Vince Dunn 2 minutes for Slashing

Stars PPG – 11:35 – Tyler Seguin (4) from Mats Zuccarello (7) and Jamie Benn (8)

Stars Penalty – 13:07 – Alexander Radulov 2 minutes for Tripping

Blues Penalty – 13:13 – Brayden Schenn 2 minutes for Tripping

Stars Penalty – 17:29 – Blake Comeau 2 minutes for Tripping

Blues Penalty – 19:06 – Pat Maroon 2 minutes for Goalie Interference

 

End of 1st – STL – 1       DAL – 1

Shots              10                07

Faceoffs         11                09

Hits               11                  11

PP                 0/3                 1/2* 3rd in progress

 

Second Period:

Blues Goal – 15:24 – David Perron (3) from Oskar Sunqvist (3) and Ivan Barbashev (2)

 

End of 2nd – STL – 2        DAL – 1

Shots               14                 16

Faceoffs          14                 20

Hits                 23                  22

PP                   0/3                  1/3

 

Third Period:

Blues Goal – 7:37 – Jaden Schwartz (8) from Alexander Steen (1) and Colton Parayko (6)

Blues Goal – 8:10 – Sammy Blais (1) from Ryan O’Reilly (7)

Stars Penalty – 15:58 – Alexander Radulov 2 minutes for Holding

 

End of 3rd – STL – 4         DAL – 1

Shots              25                   23

Faceoffs        21                    34

Hits               34                     35

PP                 0/4                    1/3

 

Next Up:

Game 7 – Series Tied 3-3

 

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May 4th, 2019 — News and Notes

Today is Saturday, May 4th, 2019, and these are your news and notes.

 

There were two contests yesterday in Stanley Cup playoff action.

 

 

CAROLINA 5, NY Islanders 2 (Carolina wins series 4-0)

 

Round 2 - CARNYI - Game 3 - 4-0 CAR

 

The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the New York Islanders last night by the score of 5-2 and in doing so, the Hurricanes have advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals and now await the winner of the Columbus Blue Jackets v. Boston Bruins series.

 

 

TXHT has your recap of that contest at the following page, which you can find here or at page below.

 

 

Dallas 2, ST. LOUIS 1 (Dallas leads the series 3-2)

 

Round 2 - DALSTL - Game 5 -3-2 DAL

 

The Dallas Stars are one win away from advancing to the Western Conference Finals after their 2-1 win over the St. Louis Blues last night.

 

TXHT has your coverage of the contest between the Dallas Stars and St. Louis Blues here or at the link posted below.

 

 

Game 6 of this series takes place tomorrow (May 5th) afternoon at 3 p.m., ET.

 

Today in Stanley Cup playoff action, there are two games taking place.

 

 

The Columbus Blue Jackets visit the Boston Bruins, with the series being tied at 2 games a piece.  The action starts at 7:15 p.m., ET.

 

 

In the other contest tonight, the Colorado Avalanche visit the San Jose Sharks with this series also being tied at 2 games a piece.

 

 

 

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