Jordan Kyrou scored a hat trick and Jordan Binnington made an astonishing 41 saves to lead the St. Louis Blues past the visiting New York Rangers 5-2 on Thursday night in St. Louis.

It’s Kyrou’s third career hat-trick.

All season long, the Blues have struggled on the power-play. But tonight, it worked to their advantage. They came into the game with an NHL-worst 10.6 percent power play, went 2-for-4 on the advantage in the game.

Kyrou put the Blues up 2-1 with a power-play goal off the rush at the 7:30 mark. Robert Thomas pushed the puck up the middle and fed Pavel Buchnevich racing up the left wing. Later, Kyrou pushed the Blues‘ lead to 4-1 with a breakaway goal with 12:59 left.

The Blues have gone 8-4-0 since Drew Bannister became interim coach, replacing Craig Berube.

“If I’m being honest, it’s a game I didn’t like our team at all 5-on-5 for the majority of the game,” Bannister said. “If it wasn’t for the performance of Binnington and our power play being able to score the two goals, I don’t know if we get out of here with two points.”

(Photo Credit: Brendon Klohr)