ST. LOUIS (AP) Brayden Schenn and Jordan Kyrou each had a goal and two assists, and the St. Louis Blues beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-3 on Saturday night.

Alexy Toropchenko, Robert Thomas, Kasperi Kapanen and Brandon Saad also scored for St. Louis. Joel Hofer made 30 saves.

ā€œJust feels good as a team,ā€ Kyrou said. ā€œWe got back-to-back wins here. Energyā€™s good right now.ā€

The Blues (5-4-1) recorded consecutive wins for the first time this season. They beat New Jersey 4-1 on Friday night.

ā€œWeā€™ve got to go into every game and outwork the other team,ā€ coach Craig Berube said. ā€œWe want to be that type of team. We have skill. The skill will come through, but weā€™ve got to put the work in and we did that for these two games.ā€

Juraj Slafkovsky, Brendan Gallagher and Nick Suzuki scored for Montreal (5-4-2) in its third consecutive loss. Samuel Montembeault made 29 stops.

ā€œWe have a young team. You canā€™t just show up,ā€ Montreal forward Nick Suzuki said. ā€œItā€™s unacceptable.ā€

St. Louis led 3-2 after two periods, and then scored three times in the third. Toropchenko posted a short-handed goal at 2:50. Schenn made it 5-2 with his first goal of the season at 5:53, and Kapanen scored into an empty net at 16:00.

ā€œIt always feels good to get the first one and help produce, right?ā€ Schenn asked. ā€œEveryone in the locker room wants to produce and help out.ā€

Suzuki scored his third goal with 1:28 remaining, but that was it for Montreal.

Kyrou put St. Louis in front 1:24 into the first. Schenn got the puck in the corner and made a nifty pass to Kyrou, who was parked just to the right of the goal.

Montreal answered at 4:01 when Slafkovsky snapped in a wrist shot for a power-play goal. It was his first goal of the season.

ā€œI was just happy we tied the game,ā€ the 19-year-old Slafkovsky said. ā€œI was just trying to play my game. I donā€™t follow the media. I donā€™t have Facebook or Twitter. I just have Instagram. People donā€™t throw up bad stuff on Instagram, luckily."

Thomas put the Blues up 2-1 at 16:37. He cut to the slot after getting a pass from Justin Faulk, and then converted a wrist shot for his fourth goal of the season.

Each team scored a goal in the second.

Kyrou fed Saad at 13:03 for a 3-1 lead. Schenn forced a turnover in the neutral zone and got the puck to Kyrou for a 2-on-1 break. Saad one-timed the puck by Montembeault.

The Canadiens responded with Gallagherā€™s fourth goal of the season at 14:48.

'We definitely have to learn how to play on the road a little bit better," Gallagher said. ā€œThe good news is itā€™s early in the year. Weā€™re going to get better.ā€

UP NEXT

Canadiens: Host Tampa Bay on Tuesday.

Blues: Host Winnipeg on Tuesday.

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