Rookie David Perron scored twice in St. Louis' four-goal second period and the Blues rallied from two down to beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 Tuesday night.
The Blues, who snapped a three-game losing streak, fell behind 2-0 but stormed back in the middle frame against goalie Dominik Hasek.
Manny Legace denies Daniel Cleary in Tuesday's 4-3 Blues triumph.
(Tom Gannam/Associated Press)
Keith Tkachuk and Jamal Mayers joined Perron in the scoring spurt, and the final three goals came in a span of four shots.
Pavel Datsyuk, Dan Cleary and Valtteri Filppula scored for Detroit, which lost the lead in the second period despite holding a 17-7 shots advantage in the frame.
The Red Wings dropped their second straight following a nine-game winning streak.
Tkachuk's sixth of the season, scored during a 5-on-3 power play, cut the deficit to 2-1 at 5:09.
Tkachuk put in a rebound of Lee Stempniak's from the left corner.
The Blues then scored three times in a span of 2:37 to grab the lead for good.
Perron tied it at 2-2 with a breakaway goal at 13:14.
Perron gave the Blues a 3-2 lead at 14:47 with a power-play goal, banging home Steve Wagner's shot from the point.
Perron doubled his season output to four goals.
Mayers' slap shot from the top of the right circle at 15:51 after a drop pass from Martin Rucinsky made it 4-2 and chased Hasek.
He was replaced by Chris Osgood after allowing four goals on 12 shots.
The Red Wings grabbed a 1-0 lead on Datsyuk's third of the season.
Datsyuk's shot from the blue line took a strange bounce and skipped over the glove of surprised goalie Manny Legace 4:30 into the opening period on Detroit's first shot.
Cleary made it 2-0 at 16:04 of the first when his backhander from between the circles beat Legace glove side for his sixth of the season.
Filppula made it 4-3 with 4:47 left but couldn't net the tying goal.
Legace stopped 26 shots to earn the victory.
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