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Penguins Get By Blues

Bryan Rust scored the deciding goal in a shootout and goalie Tristan Jarry picked up his 30th victory in the Pittsburgh Penguins' 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night.

 

The fourth shooter for the Penguins, Rust snapped a wrist shot from the slot past goalie Ville Husso.

 

Rust is 3 for 3 this seasons in shootout and 5 for 5 in his career.

 

Jarry improved to 30-12-6, thwarting all four St. Louis shooters in the tiebreaker. He made 23 saves in regulation and overtime.

 

Mike Matheson and Chad Ruhwedel scored in regulation for Pittsburgh.

 

Ivan Barbashev and David Perron scored for St. Louis, and Husso made 43 saves.

 

Perron's goal in the second period got the Blues back in the game that Pittsburgh was dominating.

 

The Blues tied it at 2 in the third period when Barbashev scored his 19th goal at 1:49. Barbasev poked in the rebound of Brandon Saad wraparound attempt.

 

Blues coach Craig Berube was pleased his team rebounded from being down 2-0.

 

The Blues are at Columbus on Saturday.

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