ST. LOUIS, Mo – The Blues had a modest week winning twice to offset two losses to open the week. St. Louis has moved into the playoff lurch currently sitting in tenth place in the Western Conference. St. Louis has 11 games left on their schedule and need to make up four points on Detroit who has 12 games remaining in order to squeeze into eighth place. Also in the race is Calgary in ninth place, tied with Detroit in points.
Schedule Results of the Past Week:
March 16, 2010
Colorado 5, Blues 3
The Blues skated well Tuesday evening against the dangerous Avalanche to no avail. Colorado took advantage of a late first period goal to hold the lead over the Blues through much of the evening and picked up one more goal late in the third to seal the two point victory. St. Louis outshot Colorado 39-26 but was unable to capitalize on those shots. Peter Mueller and Paul Stastny led the Avalanche with three points apiece.
1st Period
00:08 STL Alex Steen (20) – Assists: B. Jackman (14) & J. McClement (17) 14:19 COL PPG – Peter Mueller (7) – Assists: J. Liles (23) & P. Stastny (51) 17:20 COL Milan Hejduk (19) – Assists: M. Duchene (25) & P. Mueller (20)
2nd Period
00:34 STL PPG – Patrik Berglund (13) – Assists: A. McDonald (24) & E. Johnson (25) 07:14 COL Paul Stastny (17) – Assists: T. Galiardi (21) & C. Stewart (30) 08:43 COL Peter Mueller (8) – Assists: M. Duchene (26) & A. Foote (8) 11:06 STL David Perron (18) – Assists: A. McDonald (25) & E. Johnson (26)
3rd Period
17:14 COL Chris Stewart (27) – Assists: P. Stastny (52) & T. Galiardi (22)
Goalies
StL – Chris Mason (L, 21/26) COL – Peter Budaj (W, 36/39)
March 18, 2010
Blues 4, New York Rangers 3
Paul Kariya scored his 400th NHL goal on Thursday night when he scored the game winning goal against the Rangers with a little over 11 minutes remaining in the game. The Blues also received goals from Brad Boyes, Mike Weaver, and Erik Johnson as they would take advantage of poor play from Henrik Lundqvist scoring four times on a mere 16 shots on goal. The win moves the St. Louis Blues into 10th place five points behind eighth place Detroit.
1st Period
01:10 STL Brad Boyes (13) – Assists: J. McClement (18) & A. Steen (19) 05:52 NYR PPG – Ryan Callahan (19) – Assists: O. Jokinen (32) & M. Gaborik (38) 17:08 NYR Marian Gaborik (37) – Assists: V. Prospal (36) & W. Redden (12)
2nd Period
02:21 STL Mike Weaver (1) – Assists: none 05:45 STL PPG – Erik Johnson (7) – Assists: none
3rd Period
07:11 NYR Wade Redden (2) – Assists: M. Gaborik (39) & B. Dubinsky (20) 08:24 STL Paul Kariya (16) – Assists: T. Oshie (27) & D. Backes (26)
Goalies
StL – Ty Conklin (W, 26/29) NYR – Henrik Lundqvist (L, 12/16)
March 20, 2010
Blues 1, New Jersey 0
Ty Conklin would get the best of Saturday evenings road show down with the Devils as he would outduel Martin Brodeur in the one goal contest stopping 10 extra shots in the process. Alexander Steen scored his 21st goal this season with less than a minute left in the first period to give the Blues what they needed to win their second game of their East Coast road trip.
1st Period
19:47 STL Alex Steen (21) – Assists: B. Jackman (15)
Goalies
StL – Ty Conklin (W, 29/29) NJD – Martin Brodeur (L, 19/20)
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