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Colton Parayko, Alexey Toropchenko, Nathan
Walker and Jake Neighbours also scored as St. Louis moved seven
games over .500 for the first time this season.
Jordan Binnington made 30 saves to earn the victory.
Nick Suzuki and Joel Armia scored goals for the Canadiens, who
have lost six of their last eight games. Jake Allen allowed
seven goals on 36 shots.
Toropchenko scored a highlight-reel goal 25 seconds into the
game. He burst up the right wing, slid the puck between his
legs, then sliced to the net.
Parayko doubled the Blues' lead to 2-0 at the 5:05 mark with a
slap shot through Brayden Schenn's screen.
Blues winger Sammy Blais was assessed a five-minute boarding
penalty, giving the Canadiens a chance to come back. The Blues
killed off the penalty, but they didn't put a player in the
penalty box to serve Blais' penalty.
So Suzuki converted Juraj Slakovsky's cross-ice pass with the
Blues still playing short-handed five seconds after the penalty
expired.
St. Louis answered with a power-play goal at 15:20 of the first
period to push its lead to 3-1. Thomas shot from straight away
and Kyrou banged in the rebound.
Walker made it 4-1 in favor of the Blues by coming off the bench
to score through a screen with 2:11 left in the second period.
Thomas scored a power-play goal 31 seconds into the third period
to increase the Blues' lead to 5-1.
Montreal cut its deficit to 5-2 when David Savard fired a shot
that deflected off Armia. But the Blues struck with another
power-play goal, with Krug firing a shot that bounced off
Neighbours to make it 6-2.
Kyrou made it 7-2 when his shot over the net caromed back and
banked in off Allen.
--Field Level Media
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