The St. Louis Blues came out with unrelenting pressure, but Devan Dubnyk, whose Vezina Trophy finalist announcement came prior to the game, kept his team in the game with his steady presence in between the pipes.
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Vladimir Tarasenko, who has been killing the Wild all series long, got the first goal of the game on the power play. The Wild owned the best penalty kill in the league during the regular season, but the Blues have been able to score on them, both in the regular season and the post-season.