Ducks Suffer Eighth Loss Of The Season In St. Louis
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colton Parayko scored the tiebreaking goal just about midway through the third period to lift the St. Louis Blues to a 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night.
Vladimir Tarasenko also scored and Jake Allen stopped 22 shots to help the Blues win for the sixth time in the last eight games (6-1-1)
Hampus Lindholm scored and Frederik Andersen finished with 31 saves as the Ducks closed out a winless five-game road trip (0-4-1). Anaheim was outscored 15-5 on the trip, including a 4-3 loss at Dallas on Tuesday night.
Anaheim entered the game ranked last in the NHL in scoring (1.0 goals per game), was without captain Ryan Getzlaf, who missed his second game and is expected to be out up to 12 days due to appendicitis.
Lindholm gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead at 2:33 of the second period when he was able to poke in a rebound of Cory Perry's shot for power-play goal, his second of the season.
The Blues tied the score less than 3 minutes later when Vladimir Tarasenko scored his sixth of the year on a back and forth, two-man breakaway with Jori Lehtera after a stretch pass from Steve Ott.
It was Tarasenko's sixth goal of the season.
He then left the game with 4 minutes remaining in the period after taking what looked like a high hit as well as a knee-to-knee collision from Shawn Horcoff. Tarasenko went to the locker room for the remainder of the period but then returned for the third.
Parayko scored the go-ahead goal with about 9 1/2 minutes left in the third when his shot from 23 feet out bounced off the boards and then ricocheted off Andersen's skate and into the net.
NOTES: The Blues next host Minnesota on Saturday night. ... The Ducks return home for three straight, beginning Sunday against Nashville.
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