Jordan Kyrou was a succinct as he could be after he scored a goal, and added a shootout winner against the Minnesota Wild a week ago. "Obviously when you score a big goal like that, it gets your confidence up a little bit," he said. Forward scored second hat trick this season for Blues, fueling 5-4 overtime win against Wild It was pretty obvious the confidence had been lagging for the St. Louis Blues forward, who had ran into the previous 10 games with a goal and two assists. But since that 3-2 shootout win against the Wild on March 16, Kyrou is slowly but surely starting to regain that confidence. And it may have found him again on Saturday when he ripped off his second hat trick this season, and fourth of his NHL career, in a crucial 5-4 overtime win against the Wild at Xcel Energy Center. He scored a tying goal twice in this game for the Blues (38-30-3), one at 2-2 in the second, another at 3-3 in the third, and his third gave the Blues a 4-3 lead. In 19 games against the Wild, Kyrou now has 21 points (11 goals, 10 assists). It got obvious for Blues interim coach Drew Bannister in the third period that Kyrou was playing with confidence, not only was he playing on his line with Pavel Buchnevich and Brandon Saad, who by the way scored the game-winner at 2:05 of OT, but Bannister was double-shifting No. 25 with Oskar Sundqvist and Alexey Toropchenko on the fourth line. The motor was revving, the shot was pinpoint, there was no hesitation, and that now gives Kyrou eight points (five goals, three assists) his past five games, including six points the past two games and a plus-5 rating. He finished with seven shot attempts (four on goal) and a key, key takeaway that led to his first goal in 17:49 ice time. The masses are screaming at the top of their lungs, "Can he impact games like this consistently?" If he can down the stretch here, it will surely make this playoff chase that much more interesting. Image [https://thehockeynews.com/.image/c_fit,h_600,w_600/MjAyODg3NDg3MjY4MzMyNjEy/img_6512.jpg]
