ST. LOUIS (AP) 鈥� Brayden Schenn and Jordan Kyrou each had a goal and two assists, and the St. Louis Blues beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-3 on Saturday night.
Alexy Toropchenko, Robert Thomas, Kasperi Kapanen and Brandon Saad also scored for St. Louis. Joel Hofer made 30 saves.
鈥淛ust feels good as a team,鈥� Kyrou said. 鈥淲e got back-to-back wins here. Energy鈥檚 good right now.鈥�
The Blues (5-4-1) recorded consecutive wins for the first time this season. They beat New Jersey 4-1 on Friday night.
鈥淲e鈥檝e got to go into every game and outwork the other team,鈥� coach Craig Berube said. 鈥淲e want to be that type of team. We have skill. The skill will come through, but we鈥檝e got to put the work in and we did that for these two games.鈥�
Juraj Slafkovsky, Brendan Gallagher and Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal (5-4-2) in its third consecutive loss. Samuel Montembeault made 29 stops.
鈥淲e have a young team. You can鈥檛 just show up,鈥� Montreal forward Nick Suzuki said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 unacceptable.鈥�
St. Louis led 3-2 after two periods, and then scored three times in the third. Toropchenko posted a short-handed goal at 2:50. Schenn made it 5-2 with his first goal of the season at 5:53, and Kapanen scored into an empty net at 16:00.
鈥淚t always feels good to get the first one and help produce, right?鈥� Schenn asked. 鈥淓veryone in the locker room wants to produce and help out.鈥�
Suzuki scored his third goal with 1:28 remaining, but that was it for Montreal.
Kyrou put St. Louis in front 1:24 into the first. Schenn got the puck in the corner and made a nifty pass to Kyrou, who was parked just to the right of the goal.
Montreal answered at 4:01 when Slafkovsky snapped in a wrist shot for a power-play goal. It was his first goal of the season.
鈥淚 was just happy we tied the game,鈥� the 19-year-old Slafkovsky said. 鈥淚 was just trying to play my game. I don鈥檛 follow the media. I don鈥檛 have Facebook or Twitter. I just have Instagram. People don鈥檛 throw up bad stuff on Instagram, luckily."
Thomas put the Blues up 2-1 at 16:37. He cut to the slot after getting a pass from Justin Faulk, and then converted a wrist shot for his fourth goal of the season.
Each team scored a goal in the second.
Kyrou fed Saad at 13:03 for a 3-1 lead. Schenn forced a turnover in the neutral zone and got the puck to Kyrou for a 2-on-1 break. Saad one-timed the puck by Montembeault.
The Canadiens responded with Gallagher鈥檚 fourth goal of the season at 14:48.
'We definitely have to learn how to play on the road a little bit better," Gallagher said. 鈥淭he good news is it鈥檚 early in the year. We鈥檙e going to get better.鈥�
UP NEXT
Canadiens: Host Tampa Bay on Tuesday.
Blues: Host Winnipeg on Tuesday.
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Warren Mayes, The Associated Press
