By a weird quirk of the schedule, the Blues’ Saturday night home opponent is also their Monday night home opponent. If that reminds you of last year’s Covid-19 baseball series style scheduling, it’s ok, but it’s not happening this year to limit travel or anything like that. It’s just how the scheduling fell.
The Kings more than likely would’ve preferred it not fall that way. Saturday night was a 7-3 romping win that saw David Perron put up his sixth career hat trick and Jake Neighbours add his first NHL goal and second point. Lost in the excitement of Perron’s hat trick was Torey Krug’s three assist evening, one for each of Perron’s goals.