ST. LOUIS – Barret Jackman scored at 2:16 of overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 4-3 victory over the Dallas Stars.
The win gives the Blues their second consecutive win, while Dallas had its six game winning streak broken. The goal was Jackman’s third of the season.
Jackman took a pass from Keith Tkachuk and the shot deflected off of Stephane Robidas’ stick beating Marty Turco.
It was the second straight meeting between the Stars and Blues that had finished 3-3 in regulation.
St. Louis got its scoring from Dean McAmmond, Vladimir Orszagh and Mike Glumac, who scored his first NHL goal, while Dallas got goals from Jon Klemm, Jason Arnott and Jere Lehtinen in regulation.
St. Louis scored first on McAmmond’s 15th goal of the season with 2:07 remaining in the first period. McAmmond took a cross-ice pass from Lee Stempniak and whistled a shot from in front of the net past Turco’s glove.
Dallas wasted little time in the second period as they tied the game at 17:33. Klemm beat Curtis Sanford over his glove from the left circle after taking a pass from Mathias Tjarnqvist.
Dallas made it 2-1 less than three minutes later when Arnott scored on the power-play for his 20th goal of the season at 15:08. With Steve Poapst in the penalty box for hooking, a battle ensued in front of the net. Arnott slid the puck past Sanford, giving him nine points in his last 10 games including five goals.
The Blues tied the game 2-2 on the power-play when Orszagh scored after a scramble in front of the net. After Sanford, who was making his seventh straight start, made a diving save on Steve Ott on a two-on-one Stars break, the Blues had a five on two the other way and they did not squander the opportunity.
Glumac scored in just his fourth NHL game 32 seconds later. Turco couldn’t handle a slap shot from Dallas Drake skating in on the left side and Glumac jammed home the rebound.
Dallas tied the game 4:55 into the third period. Lehtinen took a drop pass from Jussi Jokinen and beat Sanford for his 26th goal.
Sanford (8-12-4) made 25 saves for the victory while Turco (28-14-2) made 23 saves in the loss.
Notes: The Stars recalled defenseman Dan Jancevski under emergency conditions from the Iowa Stars of the AHL. Jancevski was called up to replace Phillippe Boucher, who did not travel to St. Louis. Boucher is listed as day-to-day with a sore knee…Jesse Boulerice made his Blues debut against the Stars. He was acquired from Carolina in the Doug Weight trade earlier this week…Blues defenseman Christian Backman was scratched with a hip injury suffered in Thursday’s win over Chicago.
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