ST. LOUIS (AP) — Brayden Schenn scored 56 seconds into overtime and the St. Louis Blues clinched a playoff spot by beating the Minnesota Wild 6-5 on Saturday for their eighth straight victory, the most. amount of the season.Vladimir Tarasenko, Ivan Barbashev, David Perron , Brandon Saad and Pavel Buchnevich scored in regulation time and Ville Husso made 31 saves.READ MORE: Ryan Hartman’s ‘Bird Fund’ reaches over $30,000, all to be donated to Children’s Minnesota“This league is not easy,” Schenn said. “There are a lot of teams that are very capable of making the playoffs and all you have to do is get in there and you have a shot.” Schenn finished after Minnesota rallied with a four-goal third period. The Blues swept the season series against Minnesota, their likely first-round opponent, and reached the 100-point mark for the ninth time. Brayden Schenn #10 of the St. Louis Blues is congratulated after scoring the game-winning goal in overtime against the Minnesota Wild. (Photo by Scott Rovak/NHLI via Getty Images) Ryan Hartman scored twice for Minnesota and Frederick Gaudreau, Marcus Foligno and Kirill Kaprizov added the goal. Cam Talbot made 24 saves, bringing his career-high point streak to 12 games. “I don’t think there’s a specific situation where we can say our D zone was poor, our rush chances were bad.” Savage trainer Dean Evason said. “They have as good an offensive team as there is, obviously you have to defend a little bit better against that group. But you have to continue to push like we did in the third quarter offensively because they’re going to get theirs, so we’ve got to get ours as well.” game early in the third period, and Gaudreau scored at 4:41 to cut the deficit to one. “They can play fast because they get the pucks out of their zone and they can just go without worrying about it, and I think we were able to do that there in the third,” Hartman said. “They came back to us last time to tie him up and go to overtime and we did the same thing. So it was good to be able to draw that game.” Buchnevich scored at 9:15 to extend his scoring streak to a career-high nine games with six goals and 10 assists. “He was excellent tonight,” Blues Coach Craig Berube. he said about Buchnevich. “I thought he was probably our best striker tonight. From just skating, making plays, being hard on the pucks, killing penalties, all that kind of stuff. He had a really good game.” READ MORE: Gaudreau scores in overtime, Wild Beat Stars 3-2Minnesota tied with two goals 58 seconds apart. Foligno had a power play goal and Kaprizov scored in a half with 5:02 remaining. Kaprizov has 43 goals, the most in a season in franchise history. “It feels good to get the 43rd goal,” Kaprizov said through an interpreter. “It really sucks to be able to go all the way back, push him into overtime and end up losing. Those are always the hardest games.” “We were probably in a pretty good position, but again, we let them attack us too much,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “I’ll give them credit, that Kaprizov is a dangerous player. He’s hard to handle and I think we give up our blue line too much, too easily on that line.” St. Louis has scored four or more goals in a franchise-high 11 straight games.MR. NICE GUYMinnesota fans, after the league fined Hartman $4,250 following a Wednesday night altercation with Edmonton’s Evander Kane, flooded Hartman’s Venmo account with more than $20,000 to pay the fine. Hartman announced Friday that he will pay the fine himself and that he too will add the amount of the fine to the amount collected, a total of just under $25,000, and donate it to Children’s Minnesota hospital. .Blues: In Nashville on Sunday night.MORE NEWS: Fans flood Ryan Hartman’s Venmo to help pay the fine for mocking Evander Kane(© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published , broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)