Game Highlights: Wild 5, Blues 0

Game Highlights: Wild 5, Blues 0

Straight communicators both representing Hockey East Maine for Jim Montgomery and Boston University. John Hines. This is going to be a good one. Both teams welcome. Opening faceoff won by the Blues. They send it down into the Minnesota zone. Favor Hartman will clear past Kyu. Mayu knocks it down with his glove. Johansson knocked it over the line and Hartman stick handles in. Five hole scores. Ryan Hartman walked it to the blue paint. Minnesota up one- nothing over Dylan Holloway. Here’s the pull up and the pass right there. Holloway’s right there. But as the puck’s coming to Hartman, he actually one touches it. Bam. Right over the blade. Here it is. Pop. He just goes one touch right over Holloway. It’s just a heck of a play. You got to tip your hat sometimes. And then Hartman certainly gets a little bit of putt luck as Mayu is going to lay out. Capri off. He’ll clear it out. Capri off only playing 41 games last year. But Gojian into the slot. Thomas lost his stick. Baldi goes far wing. Capri off banned on the shot. It goes back to him in front. Deflection and score. Baldi deflects a Capri off shot over the shoulder of Bennington. Two nothing Minnesota. 230 to go. First period. His points just continue to tally up. You’re going to see the one-time for Capri off. He ends up just missing right there. And then it’s just too much time and space for Baldi all alone breakdown when you got Thomas and you got Fowler behind the net. No one’s in front. And I would love to see the St. Louis Blues start get those engines going, find themselves on a power play here and start getting the scoring here going in 2025. Buchad on the second period draw. It’s forced to the far wing. Felo right there on that front line playing pitching to hold it along the wall for the Blues. He kicks that to Butch Navage. Walks off the wall. Saucers the Tucker who pinched in that one right to the shoulder of Gustoson. No call. We’re going to stay five on five hockey almost 4 minutes into this period. What a change of event. St. Louis is all over him. Butch Navic walked a check. Shoots it. Save the rebound there and there’s the penalty. Block and blue shots here in this one as Shen stick handles around a broken stick. They get it in. Kyu with a move to the front trying to tuck it home. Denied by the stick of Gustoson. That’s how this game has gone, folks. You see the bounces going in favor of the Minnesota Wild at first. And the Coyote just can’t sneak it in. Third penalty kill of the game for the Blues. Off the post. Rebound in. Ericson makes it three nothing Minnesota here in the second period. Power play goal. You know, you’re going to see a faceoff win. Heck of an effort on the wall there by Vladimir Terasino to keep this puck alive. And then you’re going to see Minnesota go to a setup. It’s a tip by Carill Capri off. Bennington can’t handle it. Look at that little tip right there by Carill. Yeah, there’s nothing Bennington can do about that right there. It goes from tip to post. Sitting right behind Bennington in that blue paint. That’s about as easy of a goal here in front. Trenton. Boy, they had Johansson all alone for the deflection. That’s a good save by Bennington. Pareo gets hooked by Hartman. They didn’t see that one. And a shot in and score. Colton Pereo be a little fired up there as the Wild have made it four to nothing. He thought he was hooked by Hartman prior to that. Yeah, look at Buch Navage. He is absolutely barking backside. You’re going to see him right here. Here’s Hartman. We’re going to see right there. Well, it looks like interference. It looks like Paro’s stick gets caught between the legs of Hartman. He kind of throws up both his hands. I’ll have to see maybe one more look at it. Here’s a good look right here. Yeah, Pareo’s stick. Oh, you know what? He he collapses his thighs, right? He stick down. He collapses his thighs. So he grabs his stick in the middle between his inner thighs and he collapses on us. But he’s got eight more goals against the Blues than he has against any other team. He loves playing against St. Louis. Ericson X going to open up this period with a shot on. And the puck’s carried by Thomas. Now Mayu back to Thomas shooting. He scores. Not at the post. I think that thing went in, Joe. I think it went in. That one from our angle looked like it had gone in. Baldi in front. Rossy. He put that one over to the far wing. This line’s finding some early chemistry. It’s knocked down in front. Rossy there and he scores. Minnesota’s put a handful on the Blues here in the home opener. 1233 to go in the third. 5 nothing Minnesota. But now shortly after that, again, the Blues ice it. Minnesota gets their top line out there. Hits the backside of Tucker. You want to talk about another great bounce for Minnesota. This has been the theme. Hits the backside, lands on opening night as the final horn sounds and the Minnesota Wild open the season with a five nothing win against the St. Louis Blues.

The St. Louis Blues fell to the Minnesota Wild, 5-0 in the opening matchup of the 2025-26 season on October 9, 2025.