After failing to split their home half of the series against the Blues, they fell into a two-game hole with a pair of games in St. Louis on the horizon.
But the Penguins regained their composure and pushed back hard during the second period to tie the score at 3-3. The Blues scored their first power-play goal of the series from Schwartz with 4:41 left in the second.
Winger Charlie Coyle's second-period goal was the only one Sunday for the Wild - it was Minnesota's first five-on-five goal in the series - and tied the score at 1-1.
The fact the Blues have allowed a 6-on-5 goal and one 5-on-3 goal to a team that has that kind of firepower says something.
St. Louis Blues' Jaden Schwartz (17) is swarmed by his teammates after scoring a goal against the Minnesota Wild during the third period of Game 2 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Friday, April 14, 2017, in St. Paul, Minn. "We get that big goal and things are going in our direction", Coyle said.
"We had to stay with it", Crosby said. "He's making some big, timely saves, which gives us a lot of momentum". Staal had a team-leading 28 goals but he has one assist in three games.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Jake Guentzel had a hat trick, including a goal at 13:10 of overtime, to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins over the Columbus Blue Jackets and give them a 3-0 lead in their first-round playoff series. Steen extended the lead with a late empty-net goal, and the Blues closed out their third win in a row in front of a thunderous Scottrade Center crowd.
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Fox 2's Gerron Jordan caught up with some fans on the promenade during the middle of the game, pleased with the Blues overall performance.
"They're defending hard. Their goalie has been seeing the puck well, and one thing they do well is they have five guys around the paint so it makes it tough for us to get on the inside", Pominville said. "We're in a good spot, but we know that there's an very bad lot of work to be done still". The penalty-killing unit erased back-to-back minor penalties on Joel Edmundson in the second period and then needed a couple of jaw-dropping saves from Allen on the Wild's Ryan Suter and Jonas Brodin to keep it a one-goal game.
"They literally get a power-play goal and it's the difference in the game and really all three games have been that way", Dubnyk said. Minnesota had a 24-22 edge in shots, a 38-21 edge in hits and a 44-26 edge in faceoffs. The goal was the third in 23 playoff games for Parayko, who scored four goals in 81 games this season.
St. Louis outshot Minnesota 15-9 in the first period, but couldn't build on its early lead. Coyle actually sent a puck past Allen in the final-second flurry, but after the horn to punctuate the litany of near-misses for Minnesota. Allen has fueled a strong team response after losing in the first round to Minnesota two years ago, as the Blues won their first two road games of playoffs for the only third time in franchise history.
The goal was the second of the series for Schwartz.
Getzlaf's attempted pass across the high slot banked off Bouma's foot and somehow arched through the air and past Calgary's Brian Elliott for the Anaheim captain's second goal of the series.
- Not including the Flames/Ducks game 2, Corey Crawford is the only goalie under 90% in save percentage with 87.8%, well below the playoff average of 93.8%. D Christian Folin was scratched in favour of D Nate Prosser. Three years later, the Blues are one game away from achieving that kind of killer instinct-the kind that turns a lengthy, hard-fought series into a convincing sweep.
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