Singing the Blues:
St. Louis tops Stars in OT

Saturday, February 04, 2006

For the fifth time in six games the Dallas Stars went to overtime, but this time they only got one point instead of two. Barret Jackman's goal at 2:16 of overtime lifted the St. Louis Blues to a 4-3 win over the Stars at the Savvis Center Saturday afternoon.

The loss snapped the Stars winning streak at six games and dropped their record to 2-3 in four-on-four overtime this season.

Jon Klemm, Jason Arnott and Jere Lehtinen scored for Dallas, which fell two points behind Detroit for first overall in the Western Conference.

The Blues won for the third time in four games and ran their home winning streak to a season-high three games. The last three Blues wins have come after regulation, with two coming in a shootout and then Saturday's win in overtime.

The Stars got two full power plays in the first period, but could only generate one shot between the two of the them.

The Blues had one power play and just after it expired, they scored to take a 1-0 lead with 2:07 left in the first.

Lee Stempniak circled behind the Dallas net and set a cross ice pass to a wide-open Dean McAmmond, who scored into the open side of the net from the right faceoff circle.

The Stars started the second with 1:47 left on their third power play, but were unable to score.  Just after it expired they did score when Mathias Tjarnqvist got the puck from Steve Ott, skated down the right boards and backhanded a pass back to Klemm, who beat Blues goalie Curtis Sanford with a shot from the left faceoff circle at 2:27 of the second.

A little more than two minutes later the Stars finally cashed in on a power play chance. After Sanford made stops on Martin Skoula and Bill Guerin, Brenden Morrow got puck behind the net and set up Arnott, who knocked the puck into the net from  point blank range.

But the Blues bounced back to take the lead with two goals 32 seconds apart later in the second. The first one came on the power play. After Sanford made a great save on an Ott shorthanded chance, the Blues rushed back up ice and Vladimir Orszagh scored off the rebound of a Scott Young shot at the 15:39 mark.

The Blues then score on a three-on-two when Dallas Drake put a shot on net from the left faceoff circle and Mike Glumac crashed the net to score on the rebound at 16:11. It was Glumac's first NHL goal.

The Stars came close to tying it late in the third, but Sanford made a great save on a Mike Modano blast from the right faceoff circle.

But Modano would help set up the goal to tie the game early in the third period. After skating into the St. Louis zone, he backhanded a cross-ice pass from the left wing to Jussi Jokinen, who backhanded a pass back to Lehtinen, who scored on a wrist shot at 4:55 of the third.

Sanford continued to excel for the Blues in the third, stopping a good Modano chance from the slot and then denying Arnott on a two-on-one break late in the period.

The Stars dominated the overtime period early, but the Blues got the winner when Keith Tkachuk made a nice move to skate from the left wing to the slot and then setup Jackman, whose shot from the right faceoff circle appeared to deflect off the stick of Dallas defenseman Stephane Robidas.

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