Ducks Fall in Shootout Thriller

The St. Louis Blues outlasted the Ducks in a shootout Sunday night 6-5.

For Anaheim both Leo Carlsson and Frank Vatrano tallied two goals. Alex Killorn, Isac Lundestrom and Trevor Zegras added two assists. Nikita Nesterenko scored his second career goal. 

Robert Thomas led the way for St. Louis with a four point night tallying three assists and a goal. Brayden Schenn had a goal and an assist. Zack Bolduc, Pavel Buchnevich and Matthew Kessel all scored a goal as well.

An action packed Sunday started early when the Blues managed to score just 11 seconds into the game. After winning the faceoff the Blues rushed up ice and Robert Thomas slid the puck to Zack Bolduc who scored with a snap shot.

Anaheim responded quickly at the 2:37 mark Nikita Nesterenko who was playing in just his 11th career game would tie things up with a wrist shot. 

Then with 7:24 left in the period Matthew Kessel would find the five hole of Lukas Dostal for his first career goal. The Blues would hold that 2-1 lead going into the locker room.

3:41 into the second Frank Vatrano would tip in a rebound to tie the game up for the Ducks.

St. Louis would respond at 13:36 into the second taking a 3-2 lead with a Robert Thomas wrist shot. 

Just over two minutes later Pavel Buchnevich would make it a two goal lead after scoring with a snap shot.

After two periods St. Louis led the Ducks 4-2.

Opening the third period was Leo Carlsson whose power play goal at 1:01 would bring the Ducks back within a goal. 

Brayden Schenn however would extend the lead back to two for St. Louis with a power play goal of his own with just 17:20 left to go in the game.

As they have many times this season the Ducks would mount a third period comeback. First, it was Frank Vatrano picking up his 32nd goal of the year at 8:04 with a backhand shot making it a 5-4 game.

After that at 16:09 Leo Carlsosson’s second goal of the night would tie things up at five a piece. 

After 60 minutes of hockey the teams would move onto a three on three over time that did not yield a goal.

After a rather low scoring shootout where only Jordan Kyrou managed to find twine the Blues would take home a 6-5 shootout win. 

St. Louis will sweep the season series 3-0. 

The Ducks have just four games left in the season. They will try and pick things back up tonight when they host Freeway Face off rivals the Los Angeles Kings. 

Puck drop for tonight’s match up is at 10:00 P.M. EDT and at 7:00 P.M. PDT.

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