Husso makes 31 stops for first NHL shutout, Blues beat Wild

<p>ST. LOUIS &mdash; Ville Husso stopped 31 shots for his first career shutout and David Perron had a goal and two assists in the St. Louis Blues’ 4-0 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday night.</p>
<p>Torey Krug, Ivan Barbashev and Jaden Schwartz also scored. The Blues have won two in a row and seven of 11.</p>
<p>After winning four of its previous five, Minnesota was locked into the third spot in the West Division with the loss. St. Louis had already nailed down the fourth spot.</p>
<p>The teams will finish the regular season Thursday night in St. Louis.</p>
<p>Husso improved to 9-6-1. It was the first shutout of the season for the Blues leaving Buffalo as the only team without a shutout in this truncated 56-game season.</p>
<p>Perron pushed his points total to a team-high 55 (17 goals, 38 assists) in 55 games.</p>
<p>Barbashev stuffed in the rebound of Perron’s shot midway through the first period. Schwartz scored while falling to the ice to push the lead to 2-0 late in the opening period.</p>
<p>Krug scored his first goal since Jan. 23 off a pass from Ryan O’Reilly midway through the second period.</p>
<p>Cam Talbot made 23 saves for the Wild. He was 5-0-2 in his previous seven road games.</p>
<p>THEY WILL COME</p>
<p>The Blues announced they will increase capacity to 5,000 for the upcoming playoffs. They were limited to 4,100 fans per game during the regular season.</p>
<p>HE’S BACK</p>
<p>St. Louis right wing Klim Kostin made his season debut after helping Avangard Omsk of the KHL to the Gagarin Cup championship late last month.</p>
<p>The first-round draft choice spent the last seven days in quarantine after arriving last week from Russia. He scored one goal in four games with St. Louis last season.</p>