Ryan O’Reilly lit the lamp for the fourth straight game and Jordan Binnington made 32 saves to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 4-1 win over the Boston Bruins at TD Garden.
It took the Blues franchise, which was almost ceded to Baltimore in 1967, 52 years to win the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. St. Louis hadn’t even been in the final round since 1970 when they represented the all-expansion team West Division for a third straight time.
After the Bruins absolutely dominated most of the first period, drawing a strong performance from the 25-year-old Binnington, O’Reilly deflected former Florida Panthers defenseman Jay Bouwmeester’s shot between Tuukka Rask’s legs to open the scoring at the 16:47 mark.