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Brandon Saad also scored, Philipp Grubauer
stopped 32 shots and Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen had
two assists each for Colorado, which leads the series 2-0. Game
3 is Friday night in St. Louis.
Mike Hoffman, Brayden Schenn and Sammy Blais had goals, Torey
Krug had two assists and Jordan Binnington made 29 saves for the
Blues.
Several St. Louis players tested positive for COVID-19 and were
in danger of missing the game, but the NHL said the tests were
false positives. The players were retested, and the results were
negative.
The Blues were down to five defenseman after Robert Bortuzzo was
injured in the second period, and then they lost another when
Justin Faulk was hit with an illegal check by Nazem Kadri early
in the third. Kadri was given a major and a match penalty.
St. Louis took advantage of the five-minute power play when
Schenn scored on a rebound at 10:07 to pull within 3-2.
MacKinnon's goal at 15:25 made it 4-2, but just 15 seconds
later, Hoffman's shot went off Grubauer and in to get St. Louis
within one.
Saad scored into an empty net at 17:51, and MacKinnon completed
the hat trick with another empty-net goal at 19:48. MacKinnon
has five goals and two assists in the first two games of the
series.
Colorado jumped in front with a goal just 35 seconds into the
game when a turnover went to Ryan Graves at the point. His shot
was tipped by Donskoi past Binnington.
MacKinnon scored a power-play goal at 18:05 of the first, and
his shot from the top of the zone hit Donskoi and went in to
make it 3-0 at 3:14 of the second. It was Donskoi's second goal
of the playoffs.
The Blues got some life late in the second when Blais'
sharp-angle shot went off Grubauer and in at 16:17. It was his
first of the playoffs.
--Field Level Media
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