ST. LOUIS — The Blues survived a disastrous 64 seconds in the second period to be even with Carolina going into the final five minutes on Thursday, but they couldn’t close the deal, giving up a goal with 4:35 to play that sent them to a 6-4 loss to the Hurricanes on Thursday at Enterprise Center.
Vladimir Tarasenko had the puck knocked loose from him as he skated through the neutral zone to spring Jordan Martinook going the other way and the Carolina forward got his second goal of the night, holding off a challenge from Nick Leddy while slipping the puck underneath Jordan Binnington’s pads. Carolina added an empty-net goal with 1:58 to play, the eighth time this season they’ve allowed an empty-net goal.
The Blues got their first sixth-attacker goal of the season with 41.4 seconds to play from Ryan O’Reilly but Martinook got an empty-net goal of his own with 8.4 seconds left for a hat trick, though no hats made it on to the ice.
