Conor Garland scored two goals to lead the visiting Vancouver Canucks past the St. Louis Blues 5-2 on Monday.
Tyler Myers and Pius Suter each had a goal and an assist, J.T. Miller also scored and Quinn Hughes earned two assists for the Canucks, who won for just the fourth time in 12 games (4-6-2).
Kevin Lankinen made 24 saves and earned an assist for Vancouver.
Dylan Holloway and Colton Parayko scored for the Blues, who lost their third straight game while falling to 11-13-1 at home.
Jordan Binnington allowed three goals on 18 shots before Blues coach Jim Montgomery pulled him. Joel Hofer entered and stopped 10 of the 11 shots he faced.
The Canucks took a 1-0 with a two-on-one rush less than three minutes into the game. Hughes rushed up the left wing, then slid a pass to Garland breaking in from the right wing for the game’s first goal.
Blues defenseman Tyler Tucker hammered a slap shot as Holloway bumped into Lankinen in the crease. When the resulting goal was nullified by a goaltender interference call, St. Louis unsuccessfully challenged the ruling.
That failure gave the Canucks a power play, which they converted into a 2-0 lead with 4:07 left in the first period. Brock Boeser’s shot from the slot bled through Binnington, allowing Garland to reach in and swipe the puck into the net.
Vancouver made it 3-0 with a power-play goal at the 8:26 mark of the second period. The Canucks caught the Blues in a line change midway though the man advantage and Miller scored on a breakaway off Hughes’ outlet pass. Lankinen was credited with the secondary assist.
The Blues answered with a power-play goal to cut their deficit to 3-1. Holloway blasted a shot from the left circle with teammate Jake Neighbours screening Lankinen.
St. Louis got another opportunity with a four-minute power play, but Suter scored a short-handed breakaway goal on Hofer to increase the Canucks’ lead to 4-1 with 6:24 left in the middle period.
Parayko trimmed the deficit to 4-2 by cutting to the net and backhanding a pass that caromed off a defender into the net 4:22 into the third period.
Myers capped the scoring on an empty-net goal with 2:03 remaining.
–Field Level Media
