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The Blues won 4-0 in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series and
Minnesota answered with a 6-2 victory in Game 2, with both
contests in Saint Paul, Minn.
Jordan Greenway, Mats Zuccarello and Jonas Brodin also scored
for the Wild on Friday, and Marcus Foligno and Ryan Hartman had
two assists apiece.
Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves to earn 92nd career
playoff victory, which tied him with Grant Fuhr for third place
in NHL history.
Ryan O'Reilly scored for the Blues, and Ville Husso made 28
saves.
The already depleted Blues defensive corps took another hit when
Torey Krug left the game in the first period with a lower-body
injury sustained on his body check against Matt Boldy.
The Blues got defenseman Marco Scandella back from his
lower-body injury in Game 3, but they were missing Robert
Bortuzzo and Nick Leddy because of upper-body injuries.
Minnesota wasted no time taking a 2-0 lead.
After the Blues applied immediate pressure on their first shift,
the Wild countered with a two-on-one rush that Greenway
converted off Eriksson Ek's cross-ice pass 39 seconds into the
game.
Following another St. Louis offensive flurry, Kaprizov set off
on a breakaway. He fanned on his shot, but he retrieved the puck
and banked it off Husso's skate from behind the net 2:18 into
the game.
The Wild made it 3-0 with another two-on-one break in the second
period, this time with Zuccarello moving in from the right wing
to score from point-blank range.
Eriksson Ek upped the lead to 4-0 just 22 seconds into the third
period by converting a centering pass from Foligno in the slot.
O'Reilly countered with a power-play goal from the right circle
less than 2 minutes later to cut the deficit to three.
Brodin made it 5-1 on an empty-net goal with 7:29 left to play.
--Field Level Media
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