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After Jake Allen let in 3 goals in the first period Ken Hitchcock called upon Martin Brodeur to shake things up for the St.Louis Blues on Saturday. Low and behold the Blues came out firing in the 2nd period, less than 3 minutes in Paul Statsny pots a somewhat lucky goal past Halak to get the blues on the board. Patrick Berglund followed that up with one of his own less than 3 minutes after that to make it 3-2. It was all blues after that with Kevin Shattenkirk potting his own power play goal to tie at 3 before a soft call on Statsny put the Islanders on the power play with a minute and a half to go in the 2nd. Where the Islanders on the powerplay John Tavares got lucky with a bouncing puck getting by Brodeur to get the Islanders up 4-3 going into the 3rd. That did not last long with the hot Blues powerplay going on the attack a 1:20 into the 3rd and TJ Oshie potted a nice wrist shot from the top of the circle to tie it up 4-4 and it was all St.Louis from there on out, on a constant attack. Then at 13:26 Statsny potted his second to take the lead for good. With 2 1/2 minutes to go Tarasenko sealed the deal from Lehtera and Schwartz.
It was good to see the Blues come together after a slow start, would have been easy to just give up and wait till the next game. I am very impressed with Paul Statsny, he is really coming into his own after a struggle at the start. If he can keep it going and get back to the form he was in while playing for Colorado, its going to be a tough time for the rest of the NHL.
Game Star: Paul Statsny, for putting in 2 big goals, one which was the game winner.
Up next:
Florida Panthers, if the blues keep up what they started in the NYI 2nd and 3rd will be sure to come out on top.
By Tyler
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