Sharks top Blues 3-2

With five goals and two assists in his last four games, Mikkel Boedker is on quite a tear at an opportune time.|

ST. LOUIS - With five goals and two assists in his last four games, Mikkel Boedker is on quite a tear at an opportune time.

Boedker and Logan Couture each had a goal and an assist, sending the San Jose Sharks to a 3-2 victory against the slumping St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night.

“When you're on a roll, the puck seems to find you a little bit,” Boedker said. “It feels really good. Obviously, it's a good time of the year to be productive.”

Joonas Donskoi also scored and Martin Jones made 30 saves for San Jose, which has won five of its last six games.

“He was money tonight,” Sharks coach Peter DeBoer said about Jones. “I think the story of the game was that Jonesey was big at the right times and we capitalized on some of the mistakes they made.”

Ivan Barbashev and Vladimir Tarasenko had the goals for the Blues, who have lost a season-high four in a row.

After a scoreless first period, the teams combined for five goals in the second.

San Jose took a 1-0 lead when Couture knocked in a loose puck at 6:35. Boedker fired in a shot from the point that goalie Carter Hutton blocked but couldn't corral. Couture was on the spot and scored his 24th of the season.

“It's been a good year so far offensively,” Couture said. “I think I've capitalized on the chances I've had. Tonight was a nice one to get the puck on my stick and have a wide-open net. Hopefully I can continue it.”

St. Louis answered at 8:23 when Barbashev scored on a wrist shot from the top of the right circle that sailed over Jones' arm.

Donskoi beat Hutton on a wrist shot from the left circle at 12:05. Couture assisted on Donskoi's first goal in 17 games.

Boedker gave San Jose a 3-1 lead at 15:54 when he scored from the left side of the net.

Tarasenko cut the margin to 3-2 on a power play when he fired in the rebound of a shot by Vince Dunn at 19:36 for his 24th of the season.

Despite the late goal, it was not a good period for the Blues.

“They were just better than us in the second period,” Yeo said. “We were sloppy. I thought we were drifting all over the place.”

San Jose's Brent Burns prevented a goal with less than five minutes left. During a scramble in front of the net, the puck hit the post and was sliding along the goal line when Burns knocked it out.

NOTES

The Sharks acquired C Eric Fehr from Toronto for a seventh-round pick in the 2020 draft earlier Tuesday. ... Sharks forward Tomas Hertl missed another game with an upper-body injury.

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