{"id":552821,"date":"2026-03-22T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:50:09","slug":"blues-get-2-quick-goals-in-2nd-defeat-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/552821\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues get 2 quick goals in 2nd, defeat Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Logan Mailloux<\/a> had two assists, and Jordan Binnington<\/a>\u00a0made 14 save for St. Louis, which is six points back of the Nashville Predators for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re trying to play to our identity,\u201d Blues coach Jim Montgomery said. \u201cIn the first two periods, we did that. We won a lot of puck battles, we were able to spend a lot of time in the O-zone, and we feel if we continue to play to that identity, our team confidence and growth is going to expand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Filip Hronek<\/a> scored the lone goal for the Canucks (21-40-8), who have lost two in a row and 12 of their past 15 (3-9-3). Kevin Lankinen<\/a>\u00a0made 18 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were really disconnected first and second period. In the third period, we were skating, winning battles, everything opens then,\u201d Vancouver forward Marco Rossi<\/a> said. \u201cWe have to stay positive, learn from that, and it’s got to be a full 60 (minutes) and not, you know, 20 minutes or 30.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimmy Snuggerud<\/a> appeared to put St. Louis up 1-0 at 6:36 of the second period, but the goal was waved off because Blues forward\u00a0Dylan Holloway<\/a>\u00a0made contact with Lankinen shortly before Snuggerud scored.<\/p>\n

Suter did give St. Louis a 1-0 lead at 10:17. Lankinen stopped Robert Thomas<\/a>\u00a0alone at the top of the crease and got his pad on the first rebound attempt by Suter, but the puck bounced in off Suter’s left leg as he slid toward the net on his knees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Snuggerud’s decision to go to the bench for a line change aided in the opening goal because it was Suter who replaced him on the next shift.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA good example of being unselfish and playing for each other,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cJimmy Snuggerud had a real unselfish change in the offensive zone. (Suter) replaces him, (Dylan Holloway) and (Thomas) make a real nice play, (Suter)\u00a0goes hard to the net, and he’s fresh and gets that bounce.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buchnevich made it 2-0 at 11:36 when he buried a cross-ice pass from\u00a0Philip Broberg<\/a>\u00a0with a one-timer from the top of the right face-off circle past a diving Lankinen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to attack the net and he got open, and just trying to find him,\u201d Broberg said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Logan Mailloux had two assists, and Jordan Binnington\u00a0made 14 save for St. Louis, which is six points back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-552821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}