Sharks forward Alexander Barabanov missed his fourth straight game with an undisclosed injury. Louis forward Alexei Toropchenko took part in morning skate but missed his fourth straight game with a leg injury. Calle Rosen took Krug's spot in the lineup. The Blues scratched defenseman Torey Krug just before warmups with an upper-body injury. Reimer kept it tied by robbing Brayden Schenn in the final seconds of the period with St. Joshua beat Reimer for his third goal of the season.
Louis tied it about two minutes later with a good shift from the fourth line that led to a no-look pass by Logan Brown from behind the net to Joshua in the slot. The teams traded goals early in the first with Gregor getting San Jose on the board when he raced onto a long pass from Rudolfs Balcers and Binnington. Louis maintained control from there, holding the Sharks without a shot on goal for the first 10:42 of the second period. The goal also extended points streaks for Tarasenko (nine games) and Buchnevich (13 games), who both had assists on the goal. ''I don't think we have enough games left to catch those guys. ''Those are some pretty big names,'' Thomas said. Only Brett Hull (25 games) and Blake Dunlop (19 games) have had longer streaks for the Blues. Thomas has 27 points during his scoring streak that is the longest for the Blues since Pierre Turgeon also had a 15-gamer in 1999-2000. Thomas gave the Blues the lead for good in the opening minute of the second period when he took a pass from Vladimir Tarasenko and beat Reimer with a wrist shot from the circle. You certainly aren't going to win against these guys if your best players aren't your best players and all three of those things happened.'' You're not going many games scoring one goal and you're not going to win against these guys if the power plays are 5-1 at the end of the night. ''There were times I thought we did a decent job. ''It was a challenge for us to try to match them,'' coach Bob Boughner said.
Noah Gregor scored the lone goal for the Sharks, who have lost 11 of 12 games and are playing out the string on a third straight season without a playoff berth. We've kept our head down, take them one game at a time.
We've put a pretty good series of games together here. ''That's pretty tough to do in this league. ''That's special,'' Binnington said of the team's 14-game points streak. The teams are tied with 105 points, with the Wild having a game in hand. Louis set a franchise record by earning at least a point in a 14th straight game to keep pace with Minnesota in the race for second place in the Central Division and home-ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs. Louis Blues beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1 on Thursday night.ĭakota Joshua also scored and Pavel Buchnevich added an empty-netter to lead the Blues to their 12th win in 14 games. (AP) Robert Thomas scored his 20th goal to extend his points streak to 15 games and the St.