{"id":539818,"date":"2026-04-04T05:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539818\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:27:12","slug":"holloway-scores-twice-blues-move-up-in-wild-card-chase-with-win-against-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539818\/","title":{"rendered":"Holloway scores twice, Blues move up in wild card chase with win against Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Thomas<\/a> had a goal and two assists, Pius Suter<\/a> and Colton Parayko<\/a> each had a goal and an assist, and Jake Neighbours<\/a> and Philip Broberg<\/a> each had two assists for the Blues (32-31-12), who ended a two-game skid (0-1-1) and moved within three points of the second wild card from the Western Conference into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Joel Hofer<\/a>\u00a0made 24 saves.<\/p>\n

Ryan Poehling<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Jeffrey Viel<\/a> also scored, and Lukas Dostal<\/a>\u00a0made 23 saves for the Ducks (41-30-5), who lost their fourth in a row (0-3-1).<\/p>\n

Poehling gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead when he tipped in a shot by Mason McTavish<\/a>\u00a0at 1:51 of the first period.<\/p>\n

Thomas split two Anaheim defenders before receiving a pass from Broberg and scoring from the slot on the first shot of the game for St. Louis to tie it 1-1 at 5:24.<\/p>\n

The Blues were on the power play when Holloway scored between Dostal’s pads with a wrist shot from the top of the right face-off circle for a 2-1 lead at 11:18.<\/p>\n

Poehling made a cross-ice feed to Viel for a redirection from in front of the crease to tie it 2-2 at 16:01.<\/p>\n

St. Louis moved back ahead at 18:44 after Anaheim teammates Leo Carlsson<\/a> and Ian Moore<\/a>\u00a0both skated away from the puck in the neutral zone, appearing to think the other was going to play it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That lapse led to a 3-on-2 rush by the Blues and Jonatan Berggren<\/a>\u00a0finished it with a snap shot from between the hash marks for a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n

Dostal made a save on Neighbours on a 2-on-1 rush, but the rebound came to Tyler Tucker<\/a>\u00a0and he slid the puck over to Suter, who scored into the open side of the net to make it 4-2 at 3:08 of the second period.<\/p>\n

Parayko scored with a snap shot from the top of the right circle to stretch the lead to 5-2 at 16:50.<\/p>\n

Holloway scored backdoor on a pass from Thomas while on a power play to make it 6-2 at 1:22 of the third period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Thomas had a goal and two assists, Pius Suter and Colton Parayko each had a goal and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116344785671318002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539818","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=539818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}