MOSCOW, Jan 16 Toronto Maple Leafs beat St. Louis Blues» in the match of the regular season of the National Hockey League (NHL). The meeting ended with a score of 6:5 (1:3, 3:1, 2:1) in favor of the Maple Leafs. Michael Banting (6th minute), Mitchell Marner (8th), John Tavares (10th), Timothy Lilliegren (29th), Auston Matthews (52th) and Russian forward Ilya Mikheev (57th) scored the winners. As part of the Blues, Ryan O'Reilly (4, 24) scored a double, Brandon Saad (26), Robert Thomas (37) and Niko Mikkola (44) also scored on the puck. Russian striker St. Louis Ivan Barbashev recorded on one assist, his teammates Klim Kostin and Aleksey Toropchenko did not score. Blues forwards Vladimir Tarasenko and Pavel Buchnevich missed the match.
