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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

{allcanada} Blues fall short in shootout loss to Senators

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ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Blues provided those who braved the elements on a snowy night Tuesday with plenty of offense.

But in the end, Kyle Turris scored in the fifth round of the shootout to give the Ottawa Senators a come-from-behind 5-4 victory at Scottrade Center.

Turris beat Blues goalie Jaroslav Halak with a wrist shot after Maxim Lapierre fired wide for the Blues on Senators goalie Robin Lehner.

Mika Zibanejad and Stephane Da Costa also scored shootout goals for Ottawa. The Blues received shootout goals from T.J. Oshie and Alexander Steen, but could not score on their final three opportunities.

Jason Spezza had a goal and two assists for the Senators (25-21-11), who played their third game in four nights. Erik Karlsson had a goal and an assist, Zibanejad had two assists and Milan Michalek and Turris each scored. Lehner stopped 46 shots in the victory and won his first shootout of the season in four tries.

Oshie finished with a goal and an assist, Jaden Schwartz had two assists and Halak stopped 27 shots for St. Louis. Brenden Morrow, David Backes and Jordan Leopold also scored for the Blues (37-12-6). It was their first loss to an Eastern Conference foe on home ice this season (9-0-1).

Down 3-1, the Senators scored three times in a 2:35 span in the third period to grab a 4-3 lead on goals by Michalek at 5:52, Turris at 7:02 and Spezza at 8:27 off a cast of loose coverage by the Blues, who entered Tuesday with a 25-0-3 record when leading after two periods. The Senators scored those three goals on four shots.

But Leopold scored his first goal as a member of the Blues and first in 38 games when his shot from below the goal line caromed in off Lehner at 11:08 of the third to tie the game 4-4. Leopold's last goal came March 26, 2013 against the Tampa Bay Lightning as a member of the Buffalo Sabres.

After Karlsson tied the game 1-1 off a Spezza feed with 5:10 left in the second period, Magnus Paajarvi's backhand feed was stopped by Lehner, but Oshie popped in from the opposite side and blasted a one-timer that got lodged into the top half of the netting on top of the cross bar 19 seconds later.

During a television timeout with under five minutes left in the second period, Oshie went straight to the goal and pointed to the top half of the goal for referees Mike Hasenfratz and Marc Joannette to see. Initially, it was thought the puck went into the crowd. What was supposed to be a faceoff in the Senators zone turned into a video review, confirming Oshie's shot a goal.

Backes would give the Blues a 3-1 lead with 4.7 seconds remaining in the period on the Blues' 23rd shot of the period, which was a season high for shots in a period.

Barret Jackman saved the puck from leaving the Senators' zone, fired a shot that caromed to Schwartz, who fed Backes in the left circle for a one-timer into an open side.

The Senators gained momentum when they got the Karlsson goal after killing off a set of penalties that led to them being down two men a total of 2:10. The Blues fired nine total shots during the man advantage, but could not beat Lehner. Oshie quickly re-established the Blues' lead after Karlsson's one-timer beat Halak upstairs.

Morrow extended his point-streak against the Senators to seven games (10 points total with three goals and seven assists) when Patrik Berglund forced a Colin Greening turnover in the neutral zone, and the Blues headed on an odd-man rush. Oshie's flip pass to in the slot was tipped by Berglund to Morrow at the left post, and Morrow deposited the puck into the net for a 1-0 Blues lead with 5:52 left in the first period.

Halak stood tall and stopped all 13 shots he faced in the first, including a one-timer from Michalek in the slot with 43 seconds left.

The Blues had 55.8 seconds of power play time to end overtime when Clarke MacArthur hooked Oshie after the Blues' right wing intercepted a Karlsson pass and headed off on a breakaway. They finished 0-for-7 with the man advantage despite finishing with a season-high 50 shots on goal.

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