Blues top Kings as Doughty misses game after knee injury

By JOE HARRIS

ST. LOUIS (AP) — David Perron had 3 goals and an assist, Jake Neighbours scored his archetypal NHL goal, and the St. Louis Blues bushed the Los Angeles Kings 7-3 connected Saturday night.

The Kings played without defenseman Drew Doughty who was injured aft taking a knee-to-knee deed from Dallas D Jani Hakanpaa connected Friday night. Doughty had tied the franchise grounds for astir points done the archetypal 3 games of a play for a defenseman, with 7 points (1 goal, 6 assists).

Ivan Barbashev, Ryan O’Reilly and James Neal besides scored for the Blues. Jordan Binnington made 32 saves arsenic St. Louis won its 4th consecutive crippled to unfastened a play for the 3rd clip successful franchise history.

Perron’s sixth vocation chapeau instrumentality gave him 5 goals successful his past 2 games.

Alex Iafallo, Justin Brown and Carl Grundstrom scored for the Kings, who mislaid their 4th straight. Calvin Petersen made 33 saves.

Iafallo’s archetypal extremity of the season, disconnected a rebound from an Alexander Edler shot, gave the Kings a 1-0 pb with 8:31 near successful the archetypal period.

Iafallo astir had different extremity precocious successful the first, but Binnington got his close pad connected a backhander connected a partial breakaway.

Perron evened the crippled with a power-play extremity with 5:34 near successful the first.

Barbashev made it 2-1, scoring the Blues’ archetypal short-handed extremity of the play with 1:13 near successful the first. Marco Scandella started the play by forcing a turnover astatine halfway ice, starring to Barbashev’s breakaway.

Perron’s 2nd of the crippled came disconnected a deflection of a changeable by Torey Krug 45 seconds into the 2nd period.

Neighbours made it 4-1 a mates of minutes later, burying a cleanable provender from Brayden Schenn.

O’Reilly’s power-play extremity gave St. Louis 3 goals connected its archetypal six shots of the 2nd period. Neal scored different power-play goal, his archetypal arsenic a subordinate of the Blues, successful the third.

Perron completed the chapeau instrumentality by burying a one-timer connected the powerfulness play successful the third.

Brown and Grundstrom scored third-period goals for Los Angeles. Anze Kopitar’s four-game extremity scoring streak was snapped.

NOTES: Kings D Olli Maatta made his play debut. … Blues LW Pavel Buchnevich served the 2nd of a two-game suspension for a caput butt against Arizona guardant Lawson Crouse connected Oct. 18. … Blues LW Brandon Saad was scratched aft being placed successful COVID-19 protocol. …

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The crippled was the archetypal of 2 consecutive the Kings volition play astatine St. Louis. The rematch is Monday nighttime astatine Enterprise Center.