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The Blues advance to the second round to face the Colorado
Avalanche, who swept them out of the playoffs last season in the
first round.
Nick Leddy, Ryan O'Reilly, Tyler Bozak, Vladimir Tarasenko and
Colton Parayko scored for the Blues. David Perron had two
assists.
Matt Dumba scored for the Wild. Minnesota goaltender Cam Talbot,
making his first start in place of Marc-Andre Fleury, stopped 22
shots.
Key Wild forward Joel Eriksson Ek left the game in the first
period after teammate Dmitry Kulikov accidently clipped him in
the mouth with his stick. Eriksson Ek missed much of the second
period before returning with a full facial shield.
The Wild controlled much of the first period while outshooting
the Blues 10-4. However, St. Louis killed two off two penalties
and took a 1-0 lead when Leddy zig-zagged up the ice and snapped
a shot through Kulikov and past Talbot.
Minnesota had multiple scoring chances in the first 20 minutes
but couldn't break through. Marcus Foligno hit the left post
during an extended flurry, and Binnington stopped Frederick
Gaudreau's clean break-in.
With 23 seconds left in the period, Matt Boldy came from behind
the net for a stuff attempt, but he was denied by Binnington.
O'Reilly put the Blues up 2-0 with a power-play goal 9:26 in the
second period. Brayden Schenn fed O'Reilly in the near slot for
a point-blank shot.
Bozak made it 3-0 by following up Alexei Toropchenko's power
move to the goal and tapping in the rebound at 13:25 of the
second. Tarasenko increased the margin to 4-0 with a power-play
goal with 1:24 left in the period on a backdoor cut through the
right circle.
Dumba got the Wild on the board with a slap shot from atop the
left circle with 13:35 left to play. Parayko iced the game with
an empty-net goal with 1:41 left.
--Field Level Media
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