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St. Louis tied its season high with an eighth
straight win in a tight-checking game that had few scoring
chances for both teams.
Schenn scored for the fifth straight game and reached 25 goals
for the fourth time in his career by scoring on a fluky play.
Jaden Schwartz passed the puck from the right corner to Schenn,
who was positioned behind the net. Schenn moved around and
centered the puck but Rangers goaltender Alexandar Georgiev was
out of position and the puck banked off his left skate.
Colton Parayko had a power-play goal in the second period and an
assist as St. Louis also moved three points ahead of the
Colorado Avalanche in the Central Division. Schwartz added an
empty-net goal with six seconds left.
St. Louis goaltender Jordan Binnington made 25 saves and posted
his sixth straight victory. He preserved the one-goal lead by
making a point-blank stop on Ryan Strome with about a minute
left and then smothered the puck with 16 seconds left to prevent
Brendan Lemieux from getting a chance to score on a rebound.
Before St. Louis took the lead, Binnington preserved the tie
with point-blank saves on Marc Staal and rookie Kaapo Kakko in
the first five minutes of the third period.
Mika Zibanejad scored a power-play goal in the first period for
the Rangers, who dropped their third straight game. New York
remained four points behind idle Columbus for the second
wild-card spot.
Georgiev finished with 19 saves.
Zibanejad made it 1-0 with 7:34 remaining when he dropped to one
knee and one-timed Strome's cross-ice pass to the low slot past
Binnington for his eighth goal in nine games. St. Louis tied the
game 2:35 into the second when Zibanejad misplayed a clearing
attempt and Parayko put a wrist shot from the left side over
Georgiev's stick.
--Field Level Media
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