San Luis — The victories continue to arrive for the Blues of St. Louis, and their seven -game streak has significantly improved their possibilities to return to the playoffs after an absence of two years.
After Beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1 On Tuesday night, they have joined their most consecutive victories since November 2022. It is the longest active winning streak in the NHL.
“We have just obtained a recipe that works and a game plan in which everyone believes,” said Dylan Holloway, who has 24 goals in A breakup season. “The boys are playing for each other. It’s a good atmosphere here, sure.”
St. Louis has surpassed the opponents 36-10 and only lost a total of 5:24 during this winning section. It is just a business as always, according to Alexandre Texier.
“We have a job to do,” said Texier, like Holloway, scored against Montreal. “This game is over and we think about the next game. We are not enjoying too much about this impulse. We want to be in the playoffs. We just have to do it every night.”
The blues are 13-2-2 from the The season resumed After the 4 nations break off breaksurpassing the opponents 70-38. No team in the NHL has more points or goals at that time.
“There is a rhythm and a purpose for what they are doing,” said coach Jim Montgomery. “They are simply doing it naturally. There are smiles on their faces. They love doing things well.”
The formula during the streak has been simple. Blues are strong in erect pure and work to limit transition opportunities for their opponents. They block as many shots as possible.
“It begins with the belief in this group and believes in the process and among them,” said Philip Broberg, who scored a goal and had three assists against Montreal to maintain Your impressive season lamination. “It’s about hard work.”
Montgomery agreed, calling the effort effort of his team.
“Everyone is playing well: our upper line, our first six are scoring and playing defense,” said Montgomery. “Our lower six are scoring and clinging to the discs and protecting the discs. Our defense has been really solid. The small details have been there throughout the alignment. Everyone is doing it.”
Montgomery has helped change things since DREW BANNISTER coach replacement November 25 after a 9-12-1 start. But the blues were still eight points behind Vancouver for the second and last place of wild cards of the West Conference that came out of the break and had not won three in a row throughout the season.
It seemed that Playoffs drought would reach three. Now it seems that could end.
“I know it is a simple answer, but they are only boys playing hard, playing each other and playing together,” Captain Brayden Schenn said. “Not everyone has been pretty, but we are finding a way and that is the most important thing at this time of year. There is definitely buzzing in the city.”
The blues maintain great control over the second wild card at the West Conference, four in Calgary and five in Vancouver. Now they have the savage, headlines of the first wild card, in their sight, only two points after Minnesota lost 5-1 against Vegas.
All these teams have games in the hand on the blues, which have nine remaining, compared to 12 for flames and 11 for Canucks. Holloway does not believe that no one is looking at how many games someone has left.
“Obviously, we know it’s a tight race,” said Holloway. “The most important thing is that we have to control what we can control. We cannot control other teams. The most important thing for us is to continue playing as we are. It works. We just have to go one game at the same time.”
The blues went out to play on Thursday in Nashville seeking to extend their victory streak to eight games.
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