Robert Thomas scored once in a three-point game and Dylan Holloway tallied twice to lead the visiting St. Louis Blues to a 6-2 victory Friday night the Anaheim Ducks to keep their slim playoff hopes alive in Anaheim, Calif.<\/p>\n
Pius Suter and Colton Parayko both scored once and added an assist for the Blues (32-31-12, 76 points), who are three points outside of a playoff spot with seven games remaining.<\/p>\n
Jonatan Berggren also scored, while Jake Neighbours and Philip Broberg both collected a pair of assists and goaltender Joel Hofer made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
Ryan Poehling collected one goal and one assist and Jeffrey Viel tallied once for the Ducks (41-30-5, 87 points), who lost their hold on the top spot in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
Goalie Lukas Dostal stopped 23 shots for Anaheim, which is winless in four games (0-3-1).<\/p>\n
Berggren\u2019s goal late in the first period sent the Blues off to victory. With the score tied at 2, he set up in the slot after a glaring turnover and buried the chance with 76 seconds remaining in the back-and-forth opening frame.<\/p>\n
Suter made it a 4-2 game with a tap-in tally set up by Neighbours and Tyler Tucker at 3:08 of the second period.<\/p>\n
Parayko extended the Blues lead at 16:50 of the middle frame by converting a wrist shot from the top of the right circle for his second goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Holloway added another power-play goal, ripping home a one-timer from the right circle set up by Thomas\u2019s pass 82 seconds into the third period for his second of the game to make it a 6-2 score.<\/p>\n
Before that, the clubs were in a see-saw affair. The Ducks received a sought-after quick start when Poehling opened the scoring at 1:51 by redirecting Mason MacTavish\u2019s long shot.<\/p>\n
Thomas responded to tie the clash at 5:24, chipping a shot from in tight upon being sprung on a breakaway by Broberg. With his assist, Broberg\u2019s point streak reached a career-best seven games.<\/p>\n
Holloway put the Blues ahead just past the midway point of the first period, finding the mark from the top of the right circle for the power-play goal.<\/p>\n
Then it was Anaheim\u2019s turn to erase a deficit, tying the clash when Viel redirected Poehling\u2019s cross-ice pass at 16:01 of the opening period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Thomas scored once in a three-point game and Dylan Holloway tallied twice to lead the visiting St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-543075","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\/116355359321177915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543075","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=543075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}