Wild Dominate Blues in Game 3 in St. Louis, Take first Series Lead

The Minnesota Wild absolutely dominated the St. Louis Blues on Friday night, there is no other way to put it!

Final Score: Minnesota Wild 5 St. Louis Blues 1

Stat Recap:
#ItsAboutWinning:
Scorers:
J. Eriksson Ek 1 goal 1 assist 3 shots +2
J. Greenway 1 goal 3 shots +2
K. Kaprizov 1 goal 1 assist 4 shots +2
M. Zuccarello 1 goal 2 shots +3
J. Brodin 1 goal 2 shots +3
M. Foligno 2 assist +2
R. Hartman 2 assists 2 shots +2
J. Spurgeon 1 assist 1 shot +2
Goalie:
M. Fleury 29 saves 1 goal allowed 96.7 SV%

Game Recap:
Minnesota came out of the locker room ready to play and face the St. Louis crowd. Jordan Greenway came down on a broken play and scored only 39 seconds into the game! That set the tone for Minnesota for most of the game. About 2 minutes later, Kirill Kaprizov comes down the ice on a breakaway and misses the initially shot, but proceeds to ping pong the puck off Blues goalie Husso's skate into the net for the second goal of the night! 
The Wild coasted to the end of the period. In the 2nd period the Wild scored about halfway thorugh when Mats Zuccarello found the back of the net from a good distance out. In the 3rd period the Wild came out ready to put this thing in the books. Joel Eriksson Ek added to his playoff tally as he scored 22 seconds in the period. Not too long later the Blues finally etched the 0 off the board and scored on a power play. Jonas Brodin put the icing on the cake 12 minutes into the period and concluded the scoring for the night. Both teams more or less coasted to the finish after that and the Wild claimed victory with a 5-1 advantage! 

This is Minnesota's first series lead of the 2022 playoffs, and it is a good one. This puts the Wild in an undeniably good position heading into Game 4, and even Game 5. Obviously their goal will be to take Game 4 as well and head back to St. Paul at series point.

Injury Report
Everyone played for Minnesota again.

Up Next 
The series will stay in St. Louis for Game 4. It starts on Sunday, May 8th at 3:30 PM and will be broadcast on TBS and BSN. 

Go Wild!! #ItsAboutWinning