“I feel like they were throwing a lot at the net,” Binnington said. “As a goalie, sometimes you like that just to feel the puck and stay in the game. Giving up two late in the second was not what we were looking for. We came in here and we regrouped and we found a way to get it done. We had good chances; their goalie played well, too. I think it’s good to see our game come along.”
Dylan Holloway, Matthew Kessel and Nathan Walker scored for the Blues (6-8-3), who are 3-1-1 in their past five games. Oskar Sundqvist had two assists.
“I think every win for us right now is big,” Walker said. “It’s good. Hopefully we can get on a bit of a roll and start stringing them together.”
Matt Coronato and Rasmus Andersson scored for the Flames (4-12-2), who have lost three straight. Dustin Wolf made 28 saves.
“It’s tough to come from behind,” Coronato said. “I think we battled, but we didn’t do enough there in the third to get it done.”
Holloway scored his second goal in as many games to give the Blues a 1-0 lead at 10:59 of the first period. Justin Faulk sent a long-range wrist shot to the net that Holloway tipped above Wolf’s glove in front for a power-play goal.
Kessel made it 2-0 at 13:43. He skated into the offensive zone after receiving a cross-ice pass from Sundqvist and scored with a wrist shot over Wolf’s right pad from the right circle.
It was Kessel’s second NHL goal and first since April 7, 2024.
“That one felt good,” Kessel said. “It’s obviously been a while since scoring up here, but that one felt great for sure. Just jumped up. ‘Sunny’ was able to hit me there. They were not on me much. I was able to kind of spring loose a little bit, had a good amount of space on that right side there. I was able to settle it and saw a little bit of the left side open there. So I just shot it.”
