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Blues Stay Hot, Blank Blues

Vladimir Tarasenko scored two goals and Ville Husso recorded his second career shutout as the St. Louis Blues remained undefeated in five games with a 2-0 victory Monday night over the Los Angeles Kings.

 

The Blues are off to a 5-0 start for the first time in franchise history. The Kings haven't won since their season opener.

 

It was Tarasenko's first multi-goal game since Feb. 14, 2019.

 

Husso stopped 34 shots in his first start of the season. The Finnish goalie is in his second season, and improved to 2-1 against Kings.

 

Kings goalie Jonathan Quick had 32 saves in falling to 12-16-3 lifetime against St. Louis.

 

Tarasenko's first goal of the season came on a dazzling play at 3:08 of the third period to snap a scoreless tie. Tarasenko took a cross-ice pass from Tory Krug, cut inside Kings defenseman Mikey Anderson and snapped a wrist shot in the top corner past Quick.

 

For the second goal, Ivan Barbashev poked the puck forward to Tarasenko and he made it look easy on the breakaway. And Tarasenko's third goal of the season came with just under five minutes left.

 

Tarasenko has a four-game point-scoring streak (three goals, three assists), and in his career, he has 23 points (12 goals, 11 assists) in 25 games against Los Angeles.

 

The Blues added an empty-net goal with about a minute left from David Perron, who has six goals over the last three games.

 

The win gave the Blues back-to-back wins over Los Angeles after routing the Kings 7-3 on Saturday.

 

Blues LW Pavel Buchnevich was back after he served a two-game suspension for a head butt against Arizona forward Lawson Crouse on Oct. 18. In the Blues' first four games, Buchnevich has played only one full game.

 

The Blues host Colorado on Thursday.

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