Zack Bolduc scored twice as the St. Louis Blues rolled over the visiting Seattle Kraken 7-2 on Tuesday night.
Cam Fowler and Oskar Sundqvist had a goal and two assists each for the Blues, who extended their point streak to four games (3-0-1).
Robert Thomas and Jake Neighbours (goal, assist) and Colton Parayko (two assists) also had multi-point games for St. Louis.
Jordan Kyrou scored the Blues’ other goal and Jordan Binnington made 25 saves.
Vince Dunn and Jaden Schwartz scored for the Kraken, who fell to 3-6-1 in their last 10 games.
Joey Daccord allowed five goals on 21 shots before giving way to Nikke Kokko.
The Blues outshot the Kraken 14-4 in the first period while taking a 2-0 lead.
Their first goal came 8:04 into the game, when Kyrou made a toe-drag move cutting into the slot for a shot past Daccord.
St. Louis scored its second goal on a power play. Pavel Buchnevich centered the puck to Sundqvist, who scored from in front of the net with 7:12 left in the period.
Seattle applied pressure on a power play early in the second period, but Jared McCann fired a shot off the crossbar and Binnington made saves on McCann and Kaapo Kakko.
Then the Blues scored four times in a span of 6:45 to blow the game open.
Thomas batted home his own rebound after a 3-on-2 rush. Bolduc converted a cross-ice pass from Sundqvist to score into the open left side of the net.
Fowler scored on a wrist shot through traffic from the center point, then Fowler made a cross-ice pass to Neighbours for a one-time shot from the right circle.
Bolduc made it 7-0 just 20 seconds into the third period by deflecting Mathieu Joseph’s shot from the blue line.
Dunn ended Binnington’s shutout bid by stealing the puck and scoring from the slot. Schwartz cut the deficit to 7-2 by scoring into the empty left side of the net off a carom from the end boards.
–Field Level Media
