Jake Neighbours and Noel Acciari scored first-period objectives and Jordan Binnington made 31 saves to steer the St. Louis Blues over the Ottawa Senators 2-1 on Monday night time.
St. Louis broke a two-game skid and beat the Senators for the seventh time in 9 conferences.
Tim Stutzle scored for Ottawa, which has misplaced 4 of 5.
Acciari pounced on a miscue by Senators goalie Cam Talbot to make it 2-0. Talbot partially fanned on a clearing try, giving Acciari an open internet.
“He fumbled it and I cashed in,” Acciari mentioned. “A fortuitous bounce for me.”
Acciari started the play by poking the puck away in his personal zone. Then he zipped down the ice and was there when Talbot made the miscue.
“You’ll by no means get cheated from him in terms of effort,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube mentioned.
Neighbours scored from shut vary 5:30 in off a go from Calle Rosen, who broke unfastened on the fitting wing.
WATCH | Acciari scores game-winner after turnover by Talbot:
Senators fall as Talbot’s gaffe fingers victory to Blues
St. Louis beats Ottawa 2-1 as Noel Acciari scores the game-winning purpose after a turnover by Cam Talbot. The Blues change into the eighth NHL crew to report 2,000 wins.
“It’s form of cliche — you go to the web together with your stick on the ice,” Neighbours mentioned. “I used to be leaning on that stick and hoping it could bounce off of it.”
Ottawa ended a four-period scoring drought when Stutzle transformed from the slot within the second off a go from Brady Tkachuk, a St. Louis native. Stutzle leads the Senators with 19 objectives.
St. Louis, which is 9-10-2 at dwelling, managed simply 12 photographs over the primary two intervals.
Binnington, who misplaced two of his three earlier begins, improved to 17-14-3. He stopped a backhander from Claude Giroux from shut vary with 5:37 left.
‘The effort was there’
“We did a great job of weathering the storm,” Binnington mentioned. “We’re going to take these two factors and preserve attacking.”
Binnington stopped all 12 photographs he confronted within the last interval when a great majority of the play was within the Blues finish.
“I do not suppose we have performed our greatest hockey of late,” Binnington mentioned. “We have to have a great stretch right here.”
Ottawa coach D.J. Smith mentioned Binnington’s efficiency was the distinction within the recreation.
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“He was actually good,” Smith mentioned. “We had plenty of appears.”
St. Louis earned its 2,000th win, turning into the eighth NHL franchise to succeed in that mark. The Blues entered the league in 1967.
Talbot made 18 saves for the Senators, who have been coming off a 7-0 loss to Colorado on Saturday.
“The effort was there,” Smith mentioned. “Right now, the puck is not entering into for us. Going ahead, we will have to attain some objectives.”
Ottawa defenceman Artem Zub sat out after sustaining a lower-body harm Saturday. St. Louis proper winger Vladimir Tarasenko is predicted again a while this week. He participated within the pregame skate Monday. Tarasenko has been out since Dec. 31 with a hand harm.
Up subsequent the Senators host the Penguins on Wednesday earlier than a rematch in Pittsburgh on Friday. Bluess tackle the Nashville Predators on Thursday of their fifth successive dwelling recreation.
