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  • Stanley Cup Final Game 7 – St. Louis Blues v. Boston Bruins

    Stanley Cup Final Game 7 – St. Louis Blues v. Boston Bruins

    St. Louis Blues v. Boston Bruins

    Game 7 – Series Tied 3-3

     

    Game Recap:

    Going into Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, the Boston Bruins will look to win their first ever Final Game 7 at home while the St. Louis Blues will look to win their first ever Stanley Cup in their 52 year history. To start the game both teams would play with a very high tempo, but it would be the Blues getting the early jump, but the Bruins would generate some of the better scoring opportunities. Throughout the majority of the first period it would be the Bruins dominating on the shot counter, but late in the period it would be the Blues getting a strong shift from Ryan O’Reilly and Sammy Blais as they would force the play in the Bruins zone that would allow Jay Bouwmeester to get off the point shot that O’Reilly would deflect and go right through Tuukka Rask for the first goal of the game. Then with 7.9 seconds off of a bad line change by Brad Marchand, Alex Pietrangelo would go into the Bruins zone unattended and would receive a beautiful pass from Jaden Schwartz as he would drive the net and backhand it past Rask to give the Blues a 2-0 lead going into the first intermission.

     

    Going into the second period the Blues looked to maintain their two goal lead over the Bruins, and they would play with a layered defense to clog up the neutral zone against the Bruins which would work for the most part as Jordan Binnington was able to see all shots that came his way when the Bruins would get into the Blues zone. The Blues would keep the Bruins off the board in the second period, and will need to continue their tough play and keep the play out of their zone for the final 20 minutes of this game.

     

    In the third period it would be very much the same as the second period as the Blues would continue playing their game against the Bruins, and while the Bruins would generate some solid chances, Binnington would stand tall and shut door on them. Then a little past the 11 minute mark Vladimir Tarasenko would work hard to get to the puck deep in the Bruins zone and would take a quick look before getting the puck and would feed Brayden Schenn in the slot who would one time it to make it a commanding 3-0 lead for the Blues. Then with less than five minutes left in the game David Perron would feed Zach Sanford in front of the net to seal the deal for the Blues and give them the 4-0 lead. However, with a little over two minutes left the Bruins would pull Tuukka Rask and Matt Grzelcyk would score to cut the Blues lead to three, but it would be too little too late as the Blues hold on for the 4-1 win to become the 2019 Stanley Cup Champions.

     

    Lineups:

    St. Louis Blues:

    Jaden Schwartz — Brayden Schenn — Vladimir Tarasenko

    Zach Sanford — Ryan O’Reilly — David Perron

    Sammy Blais — Tyler Bozak — Pat Maroon

    Ivan Barbashev — Oskar Sundqvist — Alexander Steen

    Carl Gunnarsson — Alex Pietrangelo

    Jay Bouwmeester — Colton Parayko

    Vince Dunn — Joel Edmundson

    Jordan Binnington

    Jake Allen

    Scratched: Robert Thomas, Robert Bortuzzo, Robby Fabbri, Michael Del Zotto, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn, Ville Husso, Jordan Nolan

     

    Boston Bruins:

    Brad Marchand — Patrice Bergeron — David Pastrnak

    Jake DeBrusk — David Krejci — Karson Kuhlman

    Marcus Johansson — Charlie Coyle — Danton Heinen

    Joakim Nordstrom — Sean Kuraly — Noel Acciari

    Zdeno Chara — Charlie McAvoy

    Torey Krug — Brandon Carlo

    Matt Grzelcyk — John Moore

    Tuukka Rask

    Jaroslav Halak

    Scratched: Steven Kampfer, David Backes, Connor Clifton

    Injured: Chris Wagner (upper body), Kevan Miller (lower body)

     

    First Period:

    Blues Penalty – 7:57 – Colton Parayko 2 minutes for Delay of Game

    Blues Goal – 16:47 – Ryan O’Reilly (8) from Jay Bouwmeester (7) and Alex Pietrangelo (16)

    Blues Goal – 19:52 – Alex Pietrangelo (3) from Jaden Schwartz (7)

     

    End of 1st – STL – 2       BOS – 0

    Shots              04                12

    Faceoffs         07                11

    Hits               14                  11

    PP                 0/0                 0/1

     

    Second Period:

    N/A

     

    End of 2nd – STL – 2        BOS – 0

    Shots               10                 23

    Faceoffs          17                 18

    Hits                 27                  21

    PP                   0/0                  0/1

     

    Third Period:

    Blues Goal – 11:25 – Brayden Schenn (5) from Vladimir Tarasenko (6) and Jaden Schwartz (8)

    Blues Goal – 15:22 – Zach Sanford (1) from David Perron (9) and Ryan O’Reilly (15)

    Bruins Goal – 17:50 – Matt Grzelcyk (4) from David Krejci (12)

     

    End of 3rd – STL – 4         BOS – 1

    Shots              20                   33

    Faceoffs        25                    26

    Hits               36                     27

    PP                 0/0                    0/1

     

    Congratulations to the St. Louis Blues for becoming the 2019 Stanley Cup Champions!

     

     

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  • Stanley Cup Final Game 5 – St. Louis Blues v. Boston Bruins

    Stanley Cup Final Game 5 – St. Louis Blues v. Boston Bruins

    St. Louis Blues v. Boston Bruins

    Game 5 – Series Tied 2-2

     

    Game Recap:

    Coming into Game 5 would be the question as to whether or not Zdeno Chara would suit up for the Boston Bruins after taking a puck to the jaw in Game 4 that would force him to miss the second half of the second period and entire third period. For the Bruins they would get Big Z for an important Game 5 against the visiting St. Louis Blues and he would play 5:55 in the first period. The Bruins would play off of that buzz of having Chara in the lineup and would outshoot the Blues 17-8 in the first, but would not get anything past Jordan Binnington who would stand tall in net.

     

    Heading into the second period the Blues would only need 55 seconds as Ryan O’Reilly would backhand a shot past Tuukka Rask to give the Blues the first lead of the game off of an amazing offesive zone rush by Blues to make the goal happen. The Blues would come close near the end of the period to extend their lead, but it would be David Krejci sliding through the crease to prevent Alex Pietrangelo from doing so.

     

    In the third period we would see the momentum rock back and forth between the two teams, but midway through the period the Blues would strike after a controversial play that would see Tyler Bozak trip Noel Acciari (sorry Aryan, it was a trip), but because the officials did not call it and play continued which would lead to David Perron scoring to make it 2-0 for the Blues. However, an irate Bruins team would respond during a delayed penalty against the Blues when Jake DeBrusk would score to cut the deficit back to one. The Bruins would force a late push, but the Blues would hold their ground and win the game 2-1 and take the 3-2 series lead going into Game 6 on Sunday night.

     

    Lineups:

    St. Louis Blues:

    Jaden Schwartz — Brayden Schenn — Vladimir Tarasenko

    Zach Sanford — Ryan O’Reilly — David Perron

    Pat Maroon — Tyler Bozak — Sammy Blais

    Ivan Barbashev — Oskar Sundqvist — Alexander Steen

    Carl Gunnarsson — Alex Pietrangelo

    Jay Bouwmeester — Colton Parayko

    Vince Dunn — Robert Bortuzzo

    Jordan Binnington

    Jake Allen

    Scratched: Joel Edmundson, Robby Fabbri, Michael Del Zotto, Mackenzie MacEachern, Chris Thorburn , Ville Husso

    Injured: Robert Thomas (undisclosed)

     

    Boston Bruins:

    Brad Marchand — Patrice Bergeron — David Pastrnak

    Jake DeBrusk — David Krejci

    Marcus Johansson — Charlie Coyle — Danton Heinen

    Joakim Nordstrom — Sean Kuraly — Noel Acciari

    Zdeno Chara — Charlie McAvoy

    Torey Krug — Brandon Carlo

    John Moore — Connor Clifton

    Steven Kampfer

    Tuukka Rask

    Jaroslav Halak

    Scratched: Karson Kuhlman, David Backes, Matt Grzelcyk

    Injured: Chris Wagner (concussion protocol), Kevan Miller (lower body)

     

    First Period:

    Blues Penalty – 6:27 – Vince Dunn 2 minutes for Delay of Game

    Bruins Penalty – 17:22 – Brad Marchand 2 minutes for Slashing

     

    End of 1st – STL – 0       BOS – 0

    Shots              08                17

    Faceoffs         11                04

    Hits               17                  21

    PP                 0/1                 0/1

     

    Second Period:

    Blues Goal – :55 – Ryan O’Reilly (6) from Zach Sanford (3) and Alex Pietrangelo (14)

    Blues Penalty – 9:25 – David Perron 2 minutes for Interference

     

    End of 2nd – STL – 1        BOS – 0

    Shots               14                 25

    Faceoffs          24                 15

    Hits                 29                  35

    PP                   0/1                  0/2

     

    Third Period:

    Blues Penalty – 3:09 – Alexander Steen 2 minutes for Interference

    Blues Goal – 10:36 – David Perron (7) from Ryan O’Reilly (14)

    Bruins Goal – 13:32 – Jake DeBrusk (4) from Torey Krug (15)

     

    End of 3rd – STL – 2         BOS – 1

    Shots              21                   39

    Faceoffs        38                    26

    Hits               34                     43

    PP                 0/1                    0/3

     

    Next Up:

    Game 6 – STL Leads 3-2

     

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

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

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

    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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  • Game 3 Recap – Winnipeg Jets v. St. Louis Blues

    Game 3 Recap – Winnipeg Jets v. St. Louis Blues

    Once again, the Winnipeg Jets came out playing much better than the St. Louis Blues, taking an 11-4 lead in shots. However, a timely shot by David Perron (who should be immortalized in STL lore because of his unwavering desire to keep coming back to the city), gave the Blues a 1-0 lead, with Jordan Binnington picking up the vaunted goalie assist (#assistington?).

    It stayed that way until the second when Kevin Hayes scored a flukey goal that was tipped in by Alex Pietrangelo. Then Patrick Laine scored. Sure, why not – what’s a game between these teams without Laine scoring. His shoulder has to be tired by now, right? Kyle Connor then makes it 3-1 on a 4 on 3 PP.

    The third period Brough two more goals for WPG – one a nice play, one a rather poor goal let up by Binnington (hopefully no more of those). The Blues managed one, but this was not their game. The final ended up being 6-3, but it was a lot more lopsided than that.

    Connor Hellebuyck wasn’t there to bail them out this time. If the Blues play like this the rest of the way, expect WPG to win in 6.

    I don’t expect the same play in Game 4, Wednesday at 9:30 PM Eastern.

  • Game Recap – 1/14/2019 – St. Louis Blues v. Washington Capitals

    Game Recap – 1/14/2019 – St. Louis Blues v. Washington Capitals

    St. Louis Blues (19-20-4 42pts) v. Washington Capitals (27-12-5 59pts)

     

    Game Recap:

    After a slow start to the game, the Washington Capitals would get an opportunity when St. Louis Blues defender Vince Dunn would be called for boarding Brett Connolly, and after a sloppy start to the powerplay it would be Alex Ovechkin scoring his 33rd of the season on the powerplay to give the Capitals the 1-0 lead. After that powerplay goal, it would become an uneventful period for the Capitals as they would be forced into their own zone for a good amount of the second half of the period. It should also be noted that when the Capitals scored it was their second shot of the game after the Blues already had 7 on Pheonix Copley.

     

    To start the period it would be the Blues tying the game at one a piece when Ivan Barbashev snuck one glove slide along the post to beat Copley. However, the wound would be opened wider as Vince Dunn would shoot the puck that would take three weird bounces before going in, and then Ryan O’Reilly would be called for Tripping, but as soon as the penalty ended the Capitals would play poorly in their zone and David Perron would extend his point streak when he scored to give the Blues a 3-1 lead.

    This period would see the Capitals generate some chances, but nothing substantial before the end of the 2nd period.

     

    For the third period we would see about the same, plus a Blues powerplay goal by Vladimir Tarasenko to ice the game for the Blues over the Capitals 4-1.

     

     

    Lineups:

    St. Louis Blues:

    Jaden Schwartz — Brayden Schenn — Vladimir Tarasenko

    Zach Sanford — Ryan O’Reilly — David Perron

    Pat Maroon — Oskar Sundqvist — Jordan Kyruo

    Jordan Nolan — Ivan Barbashev — Sammy Blais

    Joel Edmundson — Alex Pietrangelo

    Jay Bouwmeester — Colton Parayko

    Vince Dunn — Robert Bortuzzo

    Jake Allen

    Jordan Binnington

    Scratched: Robby Fabbri, Mackenzie MacEachern, Carl Gunnarsson

    Injured: Tyler Bozak (upper body), Alexander Steen (shoulder), Robert Thomas (upper body)

     

    Washington Capitals:

    Alex Ovechkin — Evgeny Kuznetsov — Tom Wilson

    Jakub Vrana — Nicklas Backstrom — T.J. Oshie

    Brett Connolly — Lars Eller — Andre Burakovsky

    Chandler Stephenson — Travis Boyd — Devante Smith-Pelly

    Dmitry Orlov — Matt Niskanen

    Michal Kempny — John Carlson

    Brooks Orpik — Madison Bowey

    Pheonix Copley

    Braden Holtby

    Scratched: Nic Dowd, Dmitrij Jaskin, Jonas Siegenthaler

    Injured: Christian Djoos (thigh)

     

    First Period:

    Blues Penalty – 6:14 – Vince Dunn 2 minutes for Boarding

    Capitals PPG – 7:50 – Alex Ovechkin (33) from Dmitry Orlov (11) and Travis Boyd (9)

     

    End of 1st – STL – 0       WAS – 1

    Shots              14                07

    Faceoffs         08                07

    Hits               07                  07

    PP                 0/0                 1/1

     

    Second Period:

    Blues Goal – 3:18 – Ivan Barbashev (6) from unassisted

    Blues Goal – 5:11 – Vince Dunn (4) from Vladimir Tarasenko (14) and Jaden Schwartz (16)

    Blues Penalty – 5:22 – Ryan O’Reilly 2 minutes for Tripping

    Blues Goal – 8:00 – David Perron (16) from Vince Dunn (15) and Ryan O’Reilly (27)

    Blues Penalty – 15:00 – Pat Maroon 2 minutes fro Roughing

    Capitals Penalty – 15:00 – Tom Wilson 2 minutes for Roughing

     

    End of 2nd – STL – 3        WAS – 1

    Shots               28                 20

    Faceoffs          20                 14

    Hits                 16                  19

    PP                   0/0                  1/2

     

    Third Period:

    Capitals Penalty – 2:01 – Matt Niskanen 2 minutes for Hooking

    Blues Penalty – 3:07 – Vladimir Tarasenko 2 minutes for Holding

    Blues Penalty – 9:26 – Alex Ovechkin 2 minutes for Delay of Game

    Blues PPG – 10:24 – Vladimir Tarasenko (15) from Ryan O’Reilly (28) and Alex Pietrangelo (12)

     

    End of 3rd – STL – 4         WAS – 1

    Shots              37                   29

    Faceoffs        33                    22

    Hits               22                     26

    PP                 1/2                    1/3

     

    Next Up:

    Washington (27-13-5 59pts) @ Nashville (27-16-4 58pts)

    St. Louis (20-20-4 44pts) @ NY Islanders (25-15-4 54pts)