{"id":179492,"date":"2025-09-03T18:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/179492\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:31:19","slug":"zack-bolduc-scores-twice-as-the-blues-beat-the-kraken-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/179492\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Bolduc scores twice as the Blues beat the Kraken 7-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Zack Bolduc scored twice and the St. Louis Blues beat the Seattle Kraken 7-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Fowler and Oskar Sundqvist each had a goal and two assists for the Blues, who won their fifth straight against the Kraken. Robert Thomas and Jake Neighbours each had a goal and an assist, and Jordan Kyrou also scored.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas has four goals and seven assists during a seven-game point streak. Neighbours snapped a 10-game scoring drought.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Binnington made 26 saves to improve to 4-0-1 in his last five games.<\/p>\n<p>Vince Dunn and Jaden Schwartz scored for the Kraken in the third period. Joey Daccord made 16 saves before he was replaced by Nikke Kokko in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Takeaways<\/p>\n<p>Kraken: Kokko made his NHL debut after Daccord was pulled following the Blues\u2019 fifth goal. Kokko was called up from the Coachella Valley Firebirds of the AHL on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Blues: Forward Mathieu Joseph played in his 400th career game and got the assist on Bolduc\u2019s second goal. Joseph responded with a strong effort after being benched during Sunday\u2019s win over Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>After being outshot 14-4 in the first period, the Kraken got off to a strong start in the second and had the period\u2019s first nine shots on goal. But Binnington kept them off the board before the Blues took over.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have points in four straight games (3-0-1), tying the longest mark for the team this season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken host Vancouver on Saturday night, and the Blues travel to Washington on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Zack Bolduc scored twice and the St. Louis Blues beat the Seattle Kraken 7-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[538,5,8054,1478,1710,1268,1479,4188,4557,1282,4,292,1480,1482,2686,234,5318,43,84,8373,3133,6381],"class_list":{"0":"post-179492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-cam-fowler","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jaden-schwartz","11":"tag-jake-neighbours","12":"tag-joey-daccord","13":"tag-jordan-binnington","14":"tag-jordan-kyrou","15":"tag-kraken","16":"tag-mathieu-joseph","17":"tag-mo-state-wire","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-nhl-hockey","20":"tag-oskar-sundqvist","21":"tag-robert-thomas","22":"tag-seattle","23":"tag-seattle-kraken","24":"tag-seattlekraken","25":"tag-sports","26":"tag-st-louis-blues","27":"tag-vince-dunn","28":"tag-wa-state-wire","29":"tag-zack-bolduc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115141796589070652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}