At The Final Horn | Sabres unable to convert in home loss to St. Louis

The Buffalo Sabres had their chances, but couldn't covert on enough of them in a 6-2 loss to the St. Louis Blues on Thursday at KeyBank Center.
Rookie defenseman Owen Power, playing in his second NHL game, recorded the primary assist on Alex Tuch's second-period goal that tied the game 2-2 for his first NHL point. However, the Blues quickly regained the lead and never looked back.
Rasmus Asplund scored the game's first goal for Buffalo and Craig Anderson made 22 saves.
Vladimir Tarasenko (3+2) and Robert Thomas (0+5) led the way for St. Louis with five points each. David Perron, Brandon Saad and Pavel Buchnevich also scored for the Blues. Jordan Binnington stopped 35 shots.
Buffalo's power play finished 0-for-2 and the penalty kill was just 1-for-3.

How it happened

Asplund deflected in a point shot by Henri Jokiharju to open the scoring with 7:40 left in the first period.
St. Louis tied it up with 23.7 seconds left in the period when Perron potted a shot top shelf while on a 5-on-3 man advantage.
The Blue took the lead 17 seconds into the second period on the continuation of a power play when Saad put one in.
Power's assist came on Tuch's goal to tie things up again at the 4:20 mark of the second. Tuch's shot from the high slot beat Binnington for his 11th goal of the season.
However, Blues took the lead right back when Tarasenko wristed in a loose puck in the slot 2:58 later.
Tarasenko pulled a great deke on a breakaway to score one-handed with 7:15 left in the period to make it 4-2.
The Blues went up three at the 6:18 mark of the third period when Buchnevich poked in a bouncing puck.
With Anderson pulled, the Blues cashed in on an empty net as Tarasenko completed the hat trick.

Roll the highlight film

Here's Power's first-career point with Rick Jeanneret on the call:

Worthy of a mention

Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott stopped by to address the team before the game:

Power's grandma Yvonne was also in the building along with dozens of family and friends for her first Sabres game:

Coming up

The Sabres will open up a home-and-home series against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday. Faceoff from KeyBank Center is set for 7 p.m. Tickets are on sale now.
The two clubs will meet again at Wells Fargo Center on Sunday at 5 p.m.