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Tyler Bozak scored twice for the Blues, who won
their seventh consecutive game. Justin Faulk and Alex
Pietrangelo also scored, Jaden Schwartz earned three assists and
Jordan Binnington stopped 25 shots.
Kyle Connor scored twice for the Jets, who lost for the fifth
time in seven games. Blake Wheeler and Gabriel Bourque also
scored, and Connor Hellebuyck made 30 saves.
The Blues took 1-0, 2-1, 3-2 and 4-3 leads, but the Jets battled
back to tie the game each time.
The Blues scored just 70 seconds into the game when Schwartz
spun out of the right corner and fed Faulk in the high slot for
his low one-time shot.
Bourque tied the game with 46 seconds left in the period. He
charged up the left wing and blasted home Mason Appleton's long
rebound.
Pietrangelo countered 5:30 into the second period by stepping
deep into the offensive zone to jam a sharp-angle goal through
Hellebuyck at the right post.
But Connor tied the game 2-2 about four minutes later, attacking
from the right side along the goal line.
Nikolaj Ehlers nearly scored with a back-door cut, but he made
an accidental skate save on himself. That mishap stung when
Bozak scored a power-play goal from the right doorstep with 3:52
left in the second period to put the Blues ahead again.
Connor's second goal tied the game at 3 just 3:12 into the third
period. Mark Scheifele nearly scored with a power-play rush up
the middle, and Connor followed up with an easy tap-in.
Bozak scored again less than two minutes later -- off a no-look
pass from Robert Thomas -- to restore the Blues' one-goal
margin.
But with Hellebuyck pulled for a sixth attacker, Wheeler tied
the game at 4 with 1:14 left in the third period by burying
Ehlers' pass from behind the net.
These Central Division rivals play again Sunday afternoon in St.
Louis.
--Field Level Media
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