Justin Faulk scored the go-ahead goal with 0.7 seconds left in the second period, and the St. Louis Blues coasted past the host Florida Panthers 6-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Jake Neighbours and Robert Thomas scored twice each for the Blues, and Jonatan Berggren added one goal and two assists.<\/p>\n
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Neighbours leads the Blues with 10 goals this season.<\/p>\n
Also for the Blues, Cam Fowler posted his 400th career assist on the Blues\u2019 first goal Saturday.<\/p>\n
The game was a battle between backup goalies. Joel Hofer made 27 saves to earn the win.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s Daniil Tarasov posted 24 saves, and the Panthers got one goal each from A.J. Greer and Sam Reinhart.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss \u2014 which broke Florida\u2019s four-game win streak \u2014 the Panthers are 7-2-0 in their past nine games.<\/p>\n
The Blues scored the only goal in the first period as Neighbours tipped in a shot by Fowler.<\/p>\n
St. Louis extended its lead to 2-0 on Berggren\u2019s power-play goal with 18:05 left in the second. Tarasov caught the shot with his glove, but the puck had just barely crossed the line.<\/p>\n
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The Blues nearly made it 3-0 as Berggren had a breakaway shot. However, Tarasov made a glove save.<\/p>\n
With 12:25 left in the second, Florida\u2019s Seth Jones tried to stuff the puck in from point-blank range. The puck bounced out to the right circle where Jesper Boqvist\u2019s shot was tipped in by Greer.<\/p>\n
The Blues challenged for goalie interference as Greer and Jones were in the blue paint. After a video review, however, it was ruled a good goal.<\/p>\n
Florida then tied the score 2-2 on Reinhart\u2019s power-play goal with 7:15 left in the second. Brad Marchand had the primary assist with his pass to Reinhart, who scored from the slot, beating Hofer glove-side.<\/p>\n
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Faulk then gave the Blues a 3-2 lead. He had his back to the net when he spun and shot from beyond the right circle.<\/p>\n
The Blues nearly made it 4-2 with 14:14 left in the third, but Panthers defenseman Gustav Forsling swept a loose puck off the line. But the Blues put the game away anyway when Neighbours scored again with 7:58 left, and Thomas got his first goal with 7:07 remaining.<\/p>\n
Thomas then scored a short-handed empty-netter with 3:32 left for the final margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Faulk scored the go-ahead goal with 0.7 seconds left in the second period, and the St. Louis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[261,71,254,538,8020,62,57,5141,1231,5,1478,253,1190,7394,1821,4,63,1482,252,259,534,1842],"class_list":{"0":"post-367755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-a-j-greer","9":"tag-blues","10":"tag-brad-marchand","11":"tag-cam-fowler","12":"tag-daniil-tarasov","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-panthers","15":"tag-floridapanthers","16":"tag-gustav-forsling","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-jake-neighbours","19":"tag-jesper-boqvist","20":"tag-joel-hofer","21":"tag-jonatan-berggren","22":"tag-justin-faulk","23":"tag-nhl","24":"tag-panthers","25":"tag-robert-thomas","26":"tag-sam-reinhart","27":"tag-seth-jones","28":"tag-st-louis","29":"tag-the-blues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115757568832462894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367755","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=367755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}