Blues rout Senators 7-2 as Suter scores twice

OTTAWA – Pius Suter, Jake Neighbours and Mason McTavish each scored twice as the St. Louis Blues beat the Ottawa Senators 7-2 on Tuesday night.

Adam Jiricek also scored for the Blues at Canadian Tire Centre, according to the NHL.com game recap. Claude Giroux and Fabian Zetterlund, on the power play, scored for Ottawa.

Suter opened the scoring short-handed in the first period. Neighbours made it 2-0 in the second, Giroux cut the lead to 2-1, and McTavish restored the two-goal margin less than a minute later.

St. Louis then scored four times in the third period. Suter and Neighbours added their second goals, McTavish scored on the power play, and Jiricek made it 7-1. Zetterlund scored with Ottawa on the power play late in the third.

Joel Hofer made 15 saves for the Blues. Samuel Ersson stopped 19 of 26 shots for the Senators, according to the box score on CBS Sports.

St. Louis improved to 3-2-1, its second straight win, and has earned points in three straight games (2-0-1). Ottawa fell to 5-2-0, ending a three-game winning streak.

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Via NHL.com and CBS Sports.