Ryan Graves scored 2:17 into the game and the Pittsburgh Penguins never trailed in a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Blues.

There are few complexities in what the Pittsburgh Penguins are asking Conor Timmins to do each night. And Timmins, who’s spent all of a week on the Penguins’ roster after being acquired from the Toronto Maple Leafs March 7 at the NHL trade deadline,

On Thursday night, we saw the Pittsburgh Penguins match up with the St. Louis Blues, who are right in the thick of the Western Conference wild-card playoff race sitting two points back of the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks for the final playoff spot.

The Penguins defeated the St. Louis Blues by a narrow margin, 5-3, for their third consecutive win against a pretty formidable Western opponent. St. Louis came into this game 7-1-2 in their last 10 games and just two points out of the final wild card spot in the Western Conference.

The Pittsburgh Penguins (27-31-10) played their second of a five-game homestand when they welcomed the St. Louis Blues (31-28-7) to PPG Paints Arena Thursday night.