Dylan Holloway, Blues Top Maple Leafs

Dylan Holloway scored two goals and the visiting St. Louis Blues defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 on Wednesday night.

Philip Broberg, Alexandre Texier and Jake Neighbors also scored for the Blues, who opened a four-game road trip with their third win in the last four games. Jordan Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich each contributed two assists.

St. Louis goaltender Jordan Binnington made 41 saves.

Toronto coach Craig Berube led the Blues to the Stanley Cup championship in 2019 and was fired by them on December 12th.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored for the Maple Leafs, who have suffered two straight losses.

Toronto goaltender Joseph Woll made his first start of the season after recovering from a groin strain. He stopped 22 shots.

Broberg scored his second goal of the season with a screened shot from the point at 4:07 of the first period. Kyrou's work set up the game and Buchnevich also got an assist.

An unhindered Holloway scored his first goal of the night from the bottom hole through the five-hole at 10:31 of the first. Brandon Saad made a backhand pass to set up Holloway. Jake McCabe was sent off for high sticking.

Woll stopped Brayden Schenn on a breakaway at 15:13 of the first period.

Ekman-Larsson hit his first goal of the season from the right circle at 6:20 of the second period on a pass from Morgan Rielly. The shot was deflected by a St. Louis player.

St. Louis regained a two-goal lead at 7:58 of the second with Texier's first goal of the season, a wrist shot from the right circle following Kyrou's unobtrusive backhand pass from the corner.

Neighbors scored his third goal of the season from the right circle at 3:45 of the third period after St. Louis converted a turnover by Toronto on a three-on-one break initiated by Schenn.

Holloway scored his third goal of the season into an empty net at 16:42 of the third period.

St. Louis was without Robert Thomas (broken ankle). Toronto was without Max Pacioretty (lower body injury).

–Field level media