Blues ride 4-goal second period to Game 6 win over Jets
May 3 - Philip Broberg and Alexey Toropchenko each had a goal and an assist to help the St. Louis Blues stay alive in their Western Conference first-round series with a 5-2 victory over the visiting Winnipeg Jets in Game 6 on Friday night.
Game 7 is on Sunday evening in Winnipeg.
Nathan Walker, Brayden Schenn and Cam Fowler also scored and Jordan Binnington made 21 saves for the Blues, who scored four straight goals in a 5:23 span of the second period to pull away.
Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck, the front-runner for the Vezina Trophy this season, did not finish his third straight game in St. Louis. He stopped just 18 of 23 shots before he was replaced at the start of the third period by Eric Comrie, who stopped all four shots he faced.
Cole Perfetti and Nino Niederreiter scored power-play goals for the Jets, who were outscored 17-5 in the three losses in St. Louis in the series.
The Blues scored on their first shot of the game, a one-timer by Broberg from the high slot for a 1-0 lead at 6:05 of the first period.
After getting outshot 8-2 in the first period, the Jets appeared to score 26 seconds into the second period during a delayed penalty, but the Blues successfully challenged for offsides.
St. Louis killed the penalty, but the Jets went back on a power play and Perfetti chipped in a loose puck in the crease 12 seconds into the man-advantage to tie it 1-1 at 5:43.
Walker started the scoring barrage off a feed from below the goal line by Broberg to give St. Louis a 2-1 lead at 11:34.
Schenn scored 53 seconds later with a wrist shot from just above the right circle to make it 3-1.
Fowler notched his 10th point of the series when the defenseman scored on a wrist shot through traffic from above the circles for a 4-1 lead at 13:40.
Toropchenko stretched it to 5-1 at 16:57 with a wrist shot from just above the right hash marks.
Niederreiter scored a rebound on Winnipeg's fourth power play to cut it to 5-2 at 8:54 of the third period.
Blues forward Robert Thomas was called for high sticking with four minutes left and the Jets pulled Comrie for a 6-on-4, but were turned away.
Winnipeg played without center Mark Scheifele, who was injured in the first period of Game 5. Scheifele was second on the Jets in goals (37) and points (87) during the regular season.
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