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Posted: 3:00 AM CST Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015

ABOUT THE BLUES St. Louis is 38-18-4, good for second place in the Central Division, but has dropped two straight in losses to Pittsburgh (4-2) and Montreal (5-2). St. Louis is just 4-5-0 in its last nine games and head coach Ken Hitchcock was a little cranky about their play of late following Tuesday's loss to the Habs. "What we're doing is not paying any respect to checking," Hitchcock said. "We're not paying any respect to defence, to managing the puck, to managing the proper way to playing. I don't care what the shots on goal are. When you give up as many odd-man rushes as we gave up in the last two games, we're showing no respect for what matters in the National Hockey League at this time." The Blues have been outscored 11-3 in the first period over their past 11 games and allowed the first goal in eight straight home games. St. Louis has the NHL's fourth-best power play and ranks 19th on the penalty kill. Vladimir Tarasenko has been outstanding for the Blues, with 31 goals and 29 assists, placing him in the NHL's Top 10 in scoring. His 30th and 31st goals came last week against Boston and made him the youngest Blues player to eclipse that mark since Brendan Shanahan in 1991-92. Alex Steen is second on the club in scoring with 19 goals and 32 assists.

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ABOUT THE BLUES

St. Louis is 38-18-4, good for second place in the Central Division, but has dropped two straight in losses to Pittsburgh (4-2) and Montreal (5-2). St. Louis is just 4-5-0 in its last nine games and head coach Ken Hitchcock was a little cranky about their play of late following Tuesday’s loss to the Habs. “What we’re doing is not paying any respect to checking,” Hitchcock said. “We’re not paying any respect to defence, to managing the puck, to managing the proper way to playing. I don’t care what the shots on goal are. When you give up as many odd-man rushes as we gave up in the last two games, we’re showing no respect for what matters in the National Hockey League at this time.”
The Blues have been outscored 11-3 in the first period over their past 11 games and allowed the first goal in eight straight home games.
St. Louis has the NHL’s fourth-best power play and ranks 19th on the penalty kill.
Vladimir Tarasenko has been outstanding for the Blues, with 31 goals and 29 assists, placing him in the NHL’s Top 10 in scoring. His 30th and 31st goals came last week against Boston and made him the youngest Blues player to eclipse that mark since Brendan Shanahan in 1991-92. Alex Steen is second on the club in scoring with 19 goals and 32 assists.

WINNIPEG JETS

31 Ondrej Pavelec

34 Michael Hutchinson

2 Adam Pardy

4 Paul Postma

5 Mark Stuart

8 Jacob Trouba

12 Drew Stafford

14 Anthony Peluso

16 Andrew Ladd

17 Adam Lowry

18 Bryan Little

19 Jim Slater

21 T.J. Galiardi

22 Chris Thorburn

23 Jay Harrison

33 Dustin Byfuglien

39 Toby Enstrom

48 Carl Klingberg

55 Mark Scheifele

57 Tyler Myers

58 Eric O’Dell

67 Michael Frolik

91 Jiri Tlusty

ST. LOUIS BLUES

1 Brian Elliott

34 Jake Allen

4 Carl Gunnarsson

5 Barret Jackman

9 Steve Ott

10 Joakim Lindstrom

12 Jori Lehtera

17 Jaden Schwartz

19 Jay Bouwmeester

20 Alexander Steen

21 Patrik Berglund

23 Dmitrij Jaskin

25 Chris Butler

26 Paul Stastny

27 Alex Pietrangelo

28 Ian Cole

32 Chris Porter

42 David Backes

48 Petteri Lindbohm

57 Marcel Goc

74 T.J. Oshie

75 Ryan Reaves

91 Vladimir Tarasenko

— Ed Tait

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