Tim Stutzle scored twice and added two assists because the Ottawa Senators rolled previous the visiting St. Louis Blues 8-1 on Tuesday evening.
Brady Tkachuk and Adam Gaudette additionally had two objectives apiece for the Senators, who snapped a two-game shedding streak.
Josh Norris and Noah Gregor additionally scored for Ottawa. Drake Batherson and Claude Giroux every earned two assists, and goaltender Linus Ullmark made 26 saves.
Dylan Holloway scored for the Blues, who misplaced their second straight sport.
St. Louis goaltender Joel Hofer allowed 5 objectives on 21 photographs earlier than getting pulled within the second interval.
Blues winger Kasperi Kapanen was knocked out of the sport within the second with an upper-body harm.
The Senators outshot the Blues 16-8 within the first interval whereas taking a 3-0 lead.
Ottawa wanted simply 64 seconds to attain. Giroux raced up the left wing and fed Norris flying down the center for a redirection aim.
The Senators scored off the frenzy to make it 2-0 on the 4:44 mark. Michael Amadio carried the puck up the ice and fed Gregor for his shot off the left wing.
The Senators transformed a two-on-one break to make it 3-0 with 4:56 left within the interval. Stutzle stole the puck, rushed up the proper wing and snapped a shot previous Hofer.
Tkachuk scored a power-play aim from the slot 8:55 into the second interval to push the margin to 4-0.
Simply 2:13 later, Tkachuk scored once more with the person benefit. He wristed house a shot from the highest of the proper circle to make it 5-0.
Jordan Binnington changed Hofer and allowed Gaudette’s aim from the close to slot on the primary shot he confronted because the Senators pushed their result in 6-0 at 11:50 of the second.
Stutzle made it 7-0 at 7:31 of the third interval by changing Thomas Chabot’s go from the proper facet of the online.
Holloway spoiled Ullmark’s shutout bid with a power-play marker with 10:56 left within the sport. However Gaudette made it 8-1 at 15:27 by scoring off a Blues turnover in entrance of their web.
–Area Stage Media
