Blues
Perron Nets 2 As Blues Rally Past Wings
10:27 PM CST on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Rookie David Perron scored twice in St. Louis' four-goal second period and the St. Louis Blues rallied from two down to beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 Tuesday night.
The Blues, who snapped a three-game losing streak, fell behind 2-0 but stormed back in the middle frame against goalie Dominik Hasek. Keith Tkachuk and Jamal Mayers joined Perron in the scoring spurt, and the final three goals came in a span of four shots.
Pavel Datsyuk, Dan Cleary and Valtteri Filppula scored for Detroit, who lost the lead in the second period despite holding a 17-7 shots advantage in the frame. The Red Wings dropped their second straight following a nine-game winning streak.
Tkachuk's sixth of the season, scored during a 5-on-3 power play, cut the deficit to 2-1 at 5:09. Tkachuk put in a rebound of Lee Stempniak's from the left corner.
The Blues then scored three times in a span of 2:37 to grab the lead for good. Perron tied it at 2 with a breakaway goal at 13:14.
Perron gave the Blues a 3-2 lead at 14:47 with a power-play goal, banging home Steve Wagner's shot from the point. Perron doubled his season output to four goals.
Mayers' slap shot from the top of the right circle at 15:51 after a drop pass from Martin Rucinsky made it 4-2 and chased Hasek. He was replaced by Chris Osgood after allowing four goals on 12 shots.
The Red Wings grabbed a 1-0 lead on Datsyuk's third of the season. Datsyuk's shot from the blue line took a strange bounce and skipped over the glove of surprised goalie Manny Legace 4:30 into the opening period on Detroit's first shot.
Cleary made it 2-0 at 16:04 of the first when his backhander from between the circles beat Legace glove side for his sixth of the season.
Filppula made it 4-3 with 4:47 left but couldn't net the tying goal.
Legace stopped 26 shots to earn the victory.
Notes:@ Detroit C Henrik Zetterberg had his 17-game point streak from the start of a season snapped. Only Ottawa's Dany Heatley has had a longer streak since 1993-94, recording a point in the first 22 games at the start of the 2005-06 season. ... The Blues are the only NHL team this season not to play an overtime game. ... The Blues are 8-0 when scoring at least three goals. ... LW Dallas Drake returned to St. Louis for the first time since signing with the Red Wings this summer. Drake spent the previous six seasons with the Blues.
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