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Sammy Blais and Colton Parayko also scored for
the Blues, who extended their home-ice point streak to 11 games
(10-0-1). Ryan O'Reilly had three assists, and Jordan Binnington
made 25 saves.
Sebastian Aho, Brock McGinn and Martin Necas scored for the
Hurricanes, who lost their fifth consecutive road game. Petr
Mrazek allowed all six goals on 26 shots.
The Blues struck first, just 2:44 into the game. Justin Faulk,
who played for the Hurricanes for eight years before his trade
to St. Louis prior to this season, fired a shot on goal from
straight away at the blue line.
Blais gathered the rebound in front of the net and reached
around Mrazek to put the Blues up 1-0.
The Blues kept attacking in the second period. Sanford made it
2-0 by swooping in off the left wall to tuck a wraparound shot
inside the right post at 1:27.
Then Parayko jumped up on the left wing of a three-on-two rush
and hammered a one-time shot past Mrazek at 4:50.
Aho cut the lead to 3-1 at 6:05 by tapping a cross-crease pass
from Warren Foegele into the open side of the net.
But the Blues resumed their second-period onslaught with two
power-play goals. First Schenn stepped in from the right circle
to convert a weak-side rebound at 7:31 after Jaden Schwartz
failed to beat Mrazek.
Then Schenn pushed the lead to 5-1 at 11:54 with a chip shot
from the lower left circle. After going 14 games without a goal,
Schenn has three in his past two games.
Sanford scored his second goal of the game with a third-period
slap shot from the high slot at 10:41. McGinn countered that by
jamming in shot from on top of the crease less than two minutes
later.
Necas cut the margin to 6-3 with a power-play blast from the
left circle with 2:25 remaining, but Carolina could get no
closer.
--Field Level Media
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