Pius Suter, Jake Neighbours and Mason McTavish each scored twice and added an assist between them as the St. Louis Blues defeated the Ottawa Senators 7-2 on Tuesday night. Adam Jiricek scored his first NHL goal and Pavel Buchnevich had three assists for the Blues (3-2-1), who have won two straight and have points in three in a row. Joel Hofer made 15 saves.
Suter opened the scoring with a short-handed goal in the first period, finishing a rush created by Colton Parayko's check along the wall. Neighbours made it 2-0 in the second before Claude Giroux cut the deficit for Ottawa, only for McTavish to restore the two-goal lead 33 seconds later.
St. Louis pulled away in the third: Suter and Neighbours each scored their second, McTavish added a power-play goal, and Jiricek made it 7-1 before Fabian Zetterlund scored a late power-play goal for the 7-2 final.
Giroux and Zetterlund scored for the Senators (5-2-0), who had won three straight. Samuel Ersson made 19 saves in the loss.
