GDT #31: Blues @ Sharks | 8:00 pm CT | FSMW, 101 ESPN

[theohall]

St. Louis Blues (15-10-5, fourth in the West Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (11-13-4, seventh in the West Division)

San Jose, California; Saturday, 9 p.m. EDT

BOTTOM LINE: St. Louis visits the San Jose Sharks after the Blues defeated San Jose 2-1 in a shootout.

The Sharks are 11-13-4 against division opponents. San Jose averages 9.5 penalty minutes per game, the sixth-most in the Nhl. Evander Kane leads the team serving 34 total minutes.

The Blues are 15-10-5 against the rest of their division. St. Louis has surrendered 26 power-play goals, killing 74.3% of opponent opportunities.

The teams square off for the second straight game.

TOP PERFORMERS: Logan Couture leads the Sharks with 13 goals, adding nine assists and totaling 22 points. Kane has five goals over the last 10 games for San Jose.

David Perron leads the Blues with 29 points, scoring 11 goals and adding 18 assists. Ryan O'Reilly has seven assists over the last 10 games for St. Louis.

LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 4-4-2, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.5 assists, 3.8 penalties and 10.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game with a .920 save percentage.

Blues: 5-2-3, averaging three goals, 5.1 assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.1 penalty minutes while allowing 3.4 goals per game with an .889 save percentage.

INJURIES: Sharks: None listed.

Blues: Carl Gunnarsson: out for season (lower body), Oskar Sundqvist: day to day (lower body), Robert Thomas: out (thumb), MacKenzie MacEachern: out (upper body), Colton Parayko: out (upper body), Barbashev: out (lower body).

[Robb_K]

A Lousy goal is scored against The Blues, and then Dunn shoots wide, and it bounces off Karlsson's skate for the tying goal!!! A 2-deflection goal!!!

[Robb_K]

Kyrou scores on a great feed from O'Reilly from behind the net!!!! Blues lead 2-1!!!!

[Robb_K]

Hoffman blasts one through Dubnyk! But it appears that The Blues were offside entering the zone.

[Robb_K]

Good kill!

[Robb_K]

I'm happy that The Blues are leading after The 1st Period, but not happy that Husso was scored upon very early in yet another game, especially after he had two easy chances to smother the puck with his glove, but fumbled it away twice like he was extremely nervous, or his hands weren't connected to his arms, He was shaking like hehad some kind of palsy. His early problems in games is a problem, making his team start behind in most of his games. Also, they were outshot 2 to 1. Also not happy that a goal scored by Hoffman was taken away because they were offside entering the zone, not long after their 2nd goal was scored when they were within a hair's breadth of being offside. They need to clean up their game. Joshua continues to look impressive. And De La Rose looked good, which is important, given that Sundqvist is out for the rest of the season with an ACL tear. Good thing The Blues are deep at forward.

[Robb_K]

Great Save by Husso!!!

[Robb_K]

O'Reilly blasts the PP goal into the upper right corner!!!! His 10th!!! Blues lead 3-2!!!!

[Robb_K]

Kyrou knocks in the pass by Krug on his way to the net!!!! Blues lead 4-2!!!

[Robb_K]

Perron gets the empty-netter!!! Blues lead 5-2!!!!

[Robb_K]

Nice clutch win for The Blues. Nice to have Tarasenko and Schwartz back to solidify the scoring lines! Adding them both back, and Bozak as well. makes scoring easier. Schwartz is really great for the team's puck possession. He played over 23 minutes both nights.

[theohall]

Some health has helped, since the Blues now have two "#1" lines - Schwartz-Schenn-Tarasenko and Perron-ROR-Kyrou. Kyrou is playing fantastic going to the net, getting position and converting the pucks that get to him or creating the screens that let someone else score. Let's see what they can do against Vegas and their group now that they have some games back together under their belt.

[gaijin]

Hey, a regulation win! How about that?

Let's do that more.