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The Blues won their seventh consecutive home
game and improved to 10-2-1 overall in their last 13 games.
Robert Thomas and Tyler Bozak each had a goal and two assists
for the Blues, who outshot the Sabres 31-19. David Perron also
scored and goaltender Jordan Binnington made 18 saves.
Jack Eichel scored for the Sabres, who lost their sixth
consecutive road game. Linus Ullmark, making his eighth
consecutive start in goal, made 26 saves.
The Blues struck first when Thomas scored 4:47 into the game,
slicing to his left through the right circle to bury a pass from
Bozak.
The duo struck again about nine minutes later to put the Blues
up 2-0. Bozak cut to his right from the left circle to convert a
centering pass from Thomas, who had doubled back behind the net.
Eichel cut the lead to 2-1 in the second period, curling from
the left wing into the slot to beat Binnington. That extended
Eichel's point streak to five games.
But Perron restored the Blues' two-goal margin about six minutes
later, blasting away on the power play from straight away out
high.
Perron has seven goals and eight assists in his last 11 games
and three goals and two assists in his last three.
Jaden Schwartz thought he scored later in the period, but a
successful coach's challenge erased his goal. For the second
consecutive game, a replay review detected Jordan Kyrou offside
on a would-be scoring rush.
Steen started and finished a goal-mouth flurry that made it 4-1
in the third period. Bozak and Thomas earned assists in the
sequence. Later Steen capped the scoring with an empty-netter.
The Blues missed key defenseman Colton Parayko for a third
consecutive game due to an upper-body injury. Rookie Niko
Mikkola replaced him again and earned his first NHL point in his
second game by assisting on Bozak's goal.
--Field Level Media
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