Blues beat Maple Leafs 5-1 in first meeting against former coach Craig
Berube since his firing
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[October 25, 2024]
TORONTO (AP) — Jordan Binnington made 40 saves, Dylan Holloway
scored twice and St. Louis beat Toronto 5-1 on Thursday night, spoiling
Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube's first game against the Blues since they
fired him in December.
Berube led St. Louis to the franchise’s only Stanley Cup in 2019. |
St. Louis Blues forward Radek Faksa (12) and Toronto Maple Leafs forward
Auston Matthews (34) battle for the puck during third-period NHL hockey
game action in Toronto, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. (Nathan Denette/The
Canadian Press via AP) |
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Philip Broberg, Alexandre Texier and Jake
Neighbours also scored to help St. Louis improve to 5-3-0.
Jordan Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich each had two assists.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored for Toronto, and Joseph Woll stopped
22 in his first start of the season after coming off injured
reserve from a groin problem earlier in the day. The Maple Leafs
fell to 4-4-0.
The Blues opened the scoring on their third shot when Broberg
fired a puck through traffic. Holloway doubled the advantage on
a power play.
Ekman-Larsson got the Maple Leafs on the board in the second
with his first goal for Toronto, but Texier made it 3-1 before
the period was out.
Takeaways
Blues: St. Louis played its first game without center Robert
Thomas after he broke an ankle Tuesday night in a loss to
Winnipeg. He's expected to miss at least six weeks.
Maple Leafs: Toronto got a number of big stops from Woll.
Anthony Stolarz was outstanding in his absence, going 3-2-0 with
a .938 save percentage and 1.83 GAA.
Key moment
Toronto’s power play had an opportunity to get the team within
one while down 3-1 in the second, but again failed to score to
drop to 0 for 3 on the night — and 3 for 26 on the season. The
Maple Leafs had another fruitless man advantage in the third.
Key stat
Broberg, who was plucked by the Blues from Edmonton in August
along with forward Dylan Holloway when the pair signed offer
sheets the same day, has seven points in eight games.
Up next
Toronto opens a two-game trip Saturday night at Boston. St.
Louis is at Montreal on Saturday night in the second of game of
its trip.
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