Observations From Blues' 5-4 Shootout Loss Vs. Kings

Key Highlights

• “I thought we battled hard today, especially in the second (period) of that game.
• We kept bringing it back and I thought we had a good game.”Dalibor Dvorsky also scored for the second straight game and had a beautiful shootout goal in the third round to extend the shootout, Brayden Schenn scored and Joel Hofer made 24 saves for the Blues, who saw their four-game home winning streak end.“There’s some things defensively that we need to clean up again,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery said.
• “You can’t be happy any time you give up four goals.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementLet’s take a look at the game observations: * Slow start to the game – Not surprising, the Blues did not come out with the energy and jump early. They were playing the second of back-to-back nights, the Kings (21-16-13) haven’t played since Tuesday and had fresh legs and showed it. They scored early on Taylor Ward’s goal off a turnover 4:31 into the opening period and carried some of that momentum into the early stages of the second when Brian Dumoulin made it 2-0 at 1:11.“I did not like our first 10 minutes of the game,” Montgomery said.
• “I thought they vastly started the game a lot better than we did.
• Their forwards were skating, we were getting caught from behind, we had too many turnovers at the red line and then I thought in the second period, we came out skating ourselves and we got a little more physical and we started winning more battles.