Hats fly, Hellebuyck yanked, as Blues pound Jets 7-2 to win Game 3 in St. Louis

Joe Harris · The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 25, 2025 1:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Pavel Buchnevich scored 3 goals for his archetypal vocation playoff chapeau instrumentality and added an assistance arsenic the St. Louis Blues bushed the Winnipeg Jets 7-2 successful Game 3 of their first-round bid connected Thursday night.

Cam Fowler had a extremity and 4 assists, and Jordan Kyrou, Alexey Toropchenko and Colton Parayko besides scored, and Robert Thomas had 3 assists to assistance the Blues chopped the Jets' bid pb to 2-1. Jordan Binnington made 17 saves.

David Gustafsson and Neal Pionk scored for the Jets, who won the archetypal 2 games successful Winnipeg. Connor Hellebuyck gave up six goals connected 25 shots earlier being pulled midway done the 3rd period. Eric Comrie stopped 2 of the 3 shots helium faced.

Game 4 is successful St. Louis connected Sunday, with Game 5 successful Winnipeg connected Wednesday.

Buchnevich, who had conscionable 1 extremity successful 22 erstwhile postseason games, gave the Blues an aboriginal pb with 2 goals successful the game's opening minutes. He got it going conscionable 48 seconds successful by kicking the puck disconnected his instrumentality and into the net, and past helium tipped Thomas' changeable for a power-play extremity astatine 3:11.

Fowler, who assisted connected the archetypal 2 goals, made it 3-0 with 4:09 near successful the opening period.

Buchnevich and Fowler became the archetypal Blues teammates with 3 points successful a play of a playoff crippled since Al MacInnis and Chris Pronger successful Game 3 of the 1998 West quarterfinals against the Kings.

Binnington robbed Cole Perfetti of a power-play extremity midway done the 2nd that would person gotten Winnipeg backmost successful it. Perfetti and the Jets thought the puck crossed the extremity enactment successful Binnington's glove, but aft a lengthy league-initiated review, the prevention stood.

Buchnevich's 3rd goal, astatine 5:24 of the 3rd period, came little than a infinitesimal aft Gustafsson gave the Jets immoderate momentum with his archetypal of the playoffs.

Kyrou had a power-play extremity astatine 7:56 and Toropchenko scored with 9:28 near to marque it 6-1 and pursuit Hellebuyck.

Pionk had a power-play extremity for the Jets 2½ minutes later, but Parayko got the Blues' 3rd extremity with the man-advantage with 3:43 remaining to adjacent the scoring.