Blues beat Canucks 3-1 in battle of bottom-five teams

Matthew DeFranks, St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Mar 21, 2026

Published in Hockey

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The St. Louis Blues salvaged their three-game road trip with a 3-1 win over the Canucks on Saturday night in Vancouver.

In beating the last-place Canucks, the Blues rebounded after a loss in Winnipeg on Sunday and a shootout loss in Calgary on Wednesday. St. Louis still has the fifth-worst record in the NHL.

Pius Suter, Pavel Buchnevich and Jordan Kyrou (empty-net) scored for the Blues, while Filip Hronek's power-play goal was Vancouver's only goal of the evening. Jordan Binnington made 14 saves to earn his third win in his last four starts.

The Canucks were one of the few teams below the Blues in the NHL standings, and they entered the day with a 13-point cushion on last place in the league. Vancouver sold off many of its pieces before the trade deadline, including Quinn Hughes (in December), Kiefer Sherwood (in January), Tyler Myers and Conor Garland (both in March).

The Blues will host the Washington Capitals on Tuesday as part of a three-game homestand at Enterprise Center.

Jumping ahead

The Blues scored twice in the second period -- and had two other goals disallowed -- to pull ahead 2-0 over the Canucks.

Suter scored at 10:17 of the second period against his former team to put the Blues up 1-0. Suter followed up on Robert Thomas' initial shot, and the puck glanced off his shin pad and into the back of the net. The goal gave Suter three points in his last four games.

Buchnevich doubled the lead at 11:36 of the second period, hitting an open net on a cross-ice, no-look feed from Philip Broberg. Logan Mailloux bumped the puck from the blue line to Broberg on the left flank, and he skated below the dot before finding Buchnevich at the top of the opposite circle. Canucks goaltender Kevin Lankinen bit hard enough on Broberg's potential shot, which left Buchnevich an open target to hit with his one-timer.

Buchnevich snapped a three-game pointless streak with the goal.

The Blues held the Canucks shotless for 16:57, a span that stretched from 11:15 remaining in the first period to 5:42 into the second period. Vancouver finished the game with just 15 shots, and only 37 shot attempts.

On the other foot

One game after the Blues benefited from three overturned goals in Calgary, they had two goals wiped off the board on Saturday night in Vancouver. Both goals involved the same two characters, too.

Jimmy Snuggerud's goal in the second period would have given the Blues a 1-0 lead, but was disallowed on the ice due to goaltender interference by Dylan Holloway at the net-front. Holloway found himself in the crease after a shot of his own, and his presence prevented Snuggerud from scoring his 16th goal of the season.

Holloway would have given the Blues a 3-0 lead at 16:04 of the second period, but a successful challenge by Vancouver coach Adam Foote nullified it. About two seconds earlier in the sequence, Snuggerud played the puck with a high stick, tapping the puck to himself before helping to set up Holloway.

Holloway's would-be goal was kept alive by Theo Lindstein, who twice prevented the Canucks from exiting the defensive zone, and allowed the Blues to retain possession in the Vancouver end.

Tucker week to week

Blues defenseman Tyler Tucker is week-to-week with a lower-body injury, coach Jim Montgomery told reporters in Vancouver before the game on Saturday night. Tucker left Wednesday's game in Calgary early in the third period after an awkward tumble, and did not play the final 16-plus minutes of regulation.

With Tucker out, Justin Holl went back into the Blues lineup, playing his fourth game with St. Louis since arriving from Detroit as part of the Justin Faulk trade. Matthew Kessel, meanwhile, has not played since March 8 in Anaheim, sitting the last six games as a scratch.

The Blues have been carrying eight defensemen since they recalled Lindstein from AHL affiliate Springfield after the trade deadline.

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