Schwartz in fine tune for Blues

ST. LOUIS — Jaden Schwartz had his third career hat trick to help the St. Louis Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Wednesday night.

Schwartz has four goals and six assists this season and has at least one point in six of the Blues’ first seven games. It was his 51st career multi-point game and fourth this season.

Vladimir Tarasenko had a goal and an assist, Kyle Brodziak also scored, and Jake Allen made 22 saves. The Blues snapped a twogame losing streak

Duncan Keith and Ryan Hartman had late goals for Blackhawks, and Corey Crawford made 28 saves.

Schwartz left the game eight minutes later after going headfirst into the boards after getting tangled with Richard Panik on a partial short-handed break.

Schwartz returned in the second period, and gave the Blues a 2-0 lead at 5:59. He completed the hat trick with an empty-net goal.

WINGS 3 at LEAFS 6 Curtis McElhinney made 30 saves in his season debut and Toronto scored four times in the first period.

Nazem Kadri, Zach Hyman, Auston Matthews, Connor Brown, Morgan Rielly and William Nylander scored to help Toronto improve to an NHL-best 6-1.

Henrik Zetterberg, Tomas Tatar and Jonathan Ericsson scored for the Red Wings. Jimmy Howard gave up three goals on four shots before Petr Mrazek came in.

— The Canadian Press