Jets remain undefeated, edge Blues for 6th straight win

Cole Perfetti had three assists for the Jets (6-0-0). Connor Hellebuyck made 27 saves.

“That was an amazing street win,” Perfetti mentioned. “A great way to start out off the (three-game street) journey. There’s occasions the place they made good pushes and we responded nicely. That was an amazing second interval and we bought some well timed targets. It was an amazing effort by our group.”

Brandon Saad scored twice, Robert Thomas had two assists, and Jordan Binnington made 21 saves for the Blues (4-3-0), who ended a four-game homestand (2-2-0).

“We got here out and had first,” Blues defenseman Ryan Suter mentioned. “The second, they’re such an explosive staff, you let off the fuel a bit of bit and so they benefit from it, and that’s what occurred there within the second.”

Saad gave the Blues a 1-0 lead at 10:11 of the primary interval, scoring on the rebound of Thomas’ wrist shot. It was Saad’s five hundredth NHL level.

Nino Niederreiter tied it 1-1 at 8:12, tipping in Neal Pionk’s wrist shot from the correct level on an influence play.

“I assumed we had been actually good within the second,” Jets coach Scott Arniel mentioned. “We bought out of our zone so much cleaner going quick. We received a bunch of battles and clearly scored. We bought a power-play objective and one other objective. After which we bought rolling once more. We bought them again on their heels a bit.”