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The Devils won their fifth straight home game,
while snapping the Blues' eight-game winning streak.
New Jersey earned its first victory over the Blues since Jan.
21, 2014.
Schneider is 3-0-1 with just six goals allowed in four games
since returning from the AHL. The Devils supported him with
goals from Jesper Bratt, Dakota Mermis, Connor Carrick and Joey
Anderson.
Vince Dunn and Jaden Schwartz scored for the Blues, and Jordan
Binnington made 28 saves.
The Devils struck first. Bratt burst in on right wing, raced
around defenseman Colton Parayko, cut to his forehand and beat
Binnington one-on-one at the 8:38 mark of the first period.
The Blues tied the game 1-1 nearly four minutes later on a power
play. Robert Thomas set up Tyler Bozak in front of the net, then
Dunn converted the rebound from the near edge of the right
circle.
Mermis put the Devils up 2-1 at 6:50 of the second period,
firing a turnaround shot from the back edge of the left circle
that found its way through traffic and inside the right post.
That was the first NHL goal for Mermis, a native of Alton, Ill.,
a nearby suburb just over 20 miles from St. Louis.
Carrick made it 3-1, firing a shot from the right point through
Travis Zajac's screen with 2:02 left in the second period.
The Devils believed they pushed the lead to 4-1 moments later
with a Kevin Rooney goal, but the Blues erased it with a
successful goaltender-interference challenge. Upon further
review, Rooney displaced Binnington's stick as he skated along
the top of the crease.
Schwartz cut the lead to 3-2 with 3:11 left. Brayden Schenn
forced a turnover along the back wall, then fed Schwartz cutting
through the slot.
But Anderson's empty-net goal with 57 seconds left for the
Devils sealed the victory.
--Field Level Media
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