ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Jacob Fowler made a career-high 46 saves for his second shutout of the season, and Zachary Bolduc and Florian Xhekaj scored as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the St. Louis Blues 2-0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Mike Matheson had two assists as the Canadiens (7-3-2) improved to 4-1-1 on the road this season with their third straight away victory. Fowler\u2019s shutout was his third in 24 career starts.<\/p>\n
The Blues (5-6-1) fell to 3-2-1 at home as they were shut out for the second straight game. They lost 4-0 to visiting Carolina on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Bolduc put the Canadiens ahead with 11:23 left in the second period, slapping a one-timer from the right circle for his fifth goal of the season. Bolduc\u2019s first goal against his former team was assisted by Matheson and Alexandre Texier.<\/p>\n
A first-round draft pick in 2021 by St. Louis, Bolduc scored 19 goals for the Blues during the 2024-25 season before being traded to the Canadiens for defenseman Logan Mailloux. The 23-year-old right winger had 12 goals and 30 points for Montreal in 78 games last season.<\/p>\n
Xhekaj scored the first goal of his NHL career with 17:43 remaining in the third period off a redirection of a shot by Matheson. Xhekaj\u2019s goal, in his ninth game, was assisted by Matheson and Kirby Dach.<\/p>\n
Fowler stopped 24 shots in the third period.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: At Dallas on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Blues: Host Boston on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
See AP\u2019s full NHL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Jacob Fowler made a career-high 46 saves for his second shutout of the season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[2002,71,74203,5435,5,3567,4687,4166,1941,4,10617,3494,3492,47087,10616,14468,534,84,5285,5284,1484],"class_list":["post-697245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-alexandre-texier","tag-blues","tag-canadiens-blues-score","tag-florian-xhekaj","tag-hockey","tag-jacob-fowler","tag-kirby-dach","tag-logan-mailloux","tag-michael-matheson","tag-nhl","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues","tag-zachary-bolduc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697245","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=697245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}