Philip Broberg and Robert Thomas each scored a goal and earned three assists as the St. Louis Blues defeated the visiting Montreal Canadiens 6-1 on Tuesday night for their seventh straight victory.
Dylan Holloway had a goal and an assist for the Blues (38-28-7, 83 points), who have moved into the thick of the Western Conference playoff chase with a 14-2-2 surge.
Jordan Kyrou and Zack Bolduc also scored for St. Louis and Jordan Binnington made 24 saves.
Nick Suzuki scored for the Canadiens (33-28-9, 72 points), who suffered just their second regulation loss in their last 14 games. They are 8-2-4 during that span.
Sam Montembeault allowed five goals on 32 shots before Jakub Dobes replaced him with 9:48 left.
The Blues controlled much of the first period while taking a 2-1 lead. They finished with a 14-5 shots-on-goal advantage after starting the game with a 9-0 edge in the first 10 minutes.
St. Louis finally broke through with 1:53 left in the period. Kyrou took a drop pass from Broberg, stickhandled into the slot and snapped a shot past Montembeault for his seventh goal in his last seven games.
Montreal tied the game 47 seconds later as Suzuki deflected Lane Hutson’s long wide shot back into the net.
But the Blues moved ahead 2-1 with 5.1 seconds left in the first period. Broberg fired a shot from the left point, and Holloway deflected it into the net.
Thomas increased the Blues’ lead to 3-1 at the 3:21 mark of the second period. He took a pass from Broberg, skated the puck into the left circle and fired a shot into the upper-right corner of the net.
Alexandre Texier made it 4-1 by banging in the rebound of Cam Fowler’s shot from the high slot 9:09 into the second period.
Broberg upped the lead to 5-1 by overpowering Montembeault with a shot off the left wing midway through the third period — his first career four-point game.
Bolduc made it 6-1 by scoring a power-play goal from the slot off Thomas’ feed.
–Field Level Media
