Blues win league’s coldest-ever game

Jordan Kyrou had two goals and two assists in a five-goal second period for St. Louis, and the visiting Blues cruised through the coldest outdoor game in NHL history to beat the host Minnesota Wild 6-4 in the Winter Classic on Saturday night.

The official faceoff temperature at Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, was minus-5.7

degrees, the first of 33 outdoor games the league has played with a temperature below zero. The attendance of 38,619 was a sellout.

In other games, Brady Skjei and Steven Lorentz each scored twice and visiting Carolina scored the last seven goals to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 7-4. The Hurricanes scored four times in a 3:57 span of the third to overcome a 4-2 deficit . ... Noah Dobson scored 3:52 into overtime to give the host New York Islanders a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers. Leon Draisaitl had his NHL-leading 25th goal for Edmonton . ... Charlie Coyle scored on a wrist shot from the slot 34 seconds into overtime and host Boston beat Buffalo 4-3 in the Bruins’ first game in 16 days — during which six games were postponed due to the NHL’s COVID-19 protocols and a league shutdown . ... Tanner Jeannot scored twice, Filip Forsberg and Ryan Johansen each had a goal and assist and the host Nashville Predators beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-1 . ... Sam Bennett scored twice, Sergei Bobrovsky made 29 saves and the host Florida Panthers beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-2 for their third straight victory . ... Justin Holl and Ilya Mikheyev scored on the same first-period penalty kill for their first goals of the season and the Maple Leafs routed the Ottawa Senators 6-0 in Toronto.