Arizona Coyotes vs St. Louis Blues - Game 17 Recap

Blues Defense Provides All the Offense Needed to Hold Off Coyotes
Goals: Edmundson (5) and Pietrangelo (7)
Record13-3-1

My thoughts on tonight's game

• It might not have been pretty, but it's a win and worth two points.
• Anybody who thought the Coyotes would crawl into Scottrade, give up, roll over and let the Blues scratch their bellies were sadly mistaken.  They might have the worst record in the NHL, but it just goes to show you that it is the NHL and any team can win on any night and you've gotta bring it every game.
• I felt like we just weren't sharp tonight, or as Coach Yeo likes to say "It was hard for us to get to our game."
• We gave up the puck a lot more than we have in any game all year.
• We also didn't look like the same in our forechecking game throughout the night.  At times, we did, but just not for a full three periods.
• Hutton was outstanding! He hadn't played a game since Oct 27th, 2 weeks without playing at game speed.  He is now 4-0-0 and stopped 27 of 29 shots on goal tonight. His dad was there to cheer him on tonight, too. 
• Both goalies, Hutton and Raanta for Arizona made some spectacular saves in overtime on breakaways.  In the end, it was Hutton who stopped both shootout attempts to seal the win for the Blues.
• Both goals tonight came by the red-hot defense with Edmundson scoring his 5th goal of the season and Blues Captain Pietrangelo scoring the goal that tied it up in the third. Edmundson only has 9 goals in his career in 153 games played. Yet, he has 5 now in just the 17th game of the year. 
• No offense from the Offense, but the Blues still find a way to win.
• Power play was 0 for 3 tonight and Penalty Kill wasn't perfect, giving up a goal in three chances.
• Shootout goals from Schenn and Steen. Tarasenko missed the net on his shot. As noted earlier, Hutton stopped both Arizona shots.
• Schenn seems to get thrown out of the face off circle a LOT.  What's going on with that? I feel sorry for Schwartz who has to come in after Schenn gets thrown out and risks a penalty if he gets whistled.  
• It looks to me like Sundqvist is fast. I wonder if there is somewhere you can see how fast they skate a certain distance like the 40 meter times for football players. Just a thought. I'd love to know if my perception from watching on TV is accurate.
• For the people who say Thorburn doesn't contribute, he picked up his first point tonight with a helper on the Eddy goal.
• Islanders will be looking for revenge on Saturday night, then the Blues head to Canada for a week-long road trip against Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.

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