St. Louis Blues News

Carolina coach Paul Maurice thinks Manny Legace will be motivated in his return to the NHL.

Goals have been hard to come by for the Blues over their current losing streak. Facing a Thrashers club that just allowed a season-high six goals last night might help them break out of that slump.

The Blues and Flyers were among six teams added when the NHL doubled in size in 1967.

One-time St. Louis Blue Brett Hull was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame on Monday in Toronto.

The Canucks have managed to stay afloat without two of their top players. The Vancouver Canucks are close to getting two of their top players back from injuries.

Some on-ice combinations work better than others, and each of the four players inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday can attest to that.

This photo released by the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission shows a guitarist playing at the Blues Festival.

Vancouver's Mats Sundin falls to the ice after a collision in front of Blues goalie Manny Legace last year.

Defensemen Tobias Enstrom and Ron Hainsey forced overtime with third-period goals, and Rich Peverley and Slava Kozlov scored in a shootout to give the Atlanta Thrashers a 3-2 victory over the St.

A staple on the power play for much of his 15-year NHL career, Blues forward Paul Kariya was held off of the struggling unit Saturday against the Flyers.

Goals have been hard to come by for the Blues over their current losing streak. Facing a Thrashers club that just allowed a season-high six goals last night might help them break out of that slump.

The goal-starved Blues matched the high-scoring Philadelphia Flyers in the most important category through regulation and overtime Saturday.

Daniel Carcillo #13 of the Philadelphia Flyers skates against the Minnesota Wild during the preseason NHL game at the Wachovia Center on September 29, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dion Phaneuf's goal 2:50 into overtime gave the Calgary Flames a 2-1 victory over the St.

Flames head coach Brent Sutter is happy his charges have stepped up their penalty-killing efforts in recent games.

Miikka Kiprusoff was back between the pipes last night. But a game like the one Curtis McElhinney had in Dallas Wednesday stopping 38 shots in a 3-2 OT win is exactly what the Flames brass and fans needed to see.

Sports Columnist Bernie Miklasz [More columns] Bernie Miklasz bjmiklasz@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8192 ST.

The Calgary Flames celebrate Jarome Iginla's overtime winner in Dallas on Wednesday.

With Andy McDonald still feeling the effects of Saturday's collision with the boards, the Blues were in an emergency situation with 11 healthy forwards Wednesday and needed to make a call-up for tonight's game against Calgary.

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