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Blues race past Hurricanes 5-2
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Published: October 29, 2009
RALEIGH - Coach Andy Murray of the St. Louis Blues said that there's no secret to his team's road success early this season.
"The bottom line is we just haven't been very good at home," Murray said last night after the Blues improved to 3-1-1 on the road with a 5-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. "All the arenas are all new and all generic. You don't have a lot of differences. So, to me, there isn't a real home advantage for a lot of the teams."
That undoubtedly was the case at the RBC Center, where the Blues came out strong, taking a 3-0 lead and then relying on goalie Chris Mason to extend Carolina's winless streak to seven games.
David Perron had two goals, Yan Stastny and Jay McClement scored 16 seconds apart, and Mason made 34 saves.
The goals by Stastny and McClement marked the fifth time this season the Hurricanes allowed two goals in a less than a minute.
"You can't break down defensively the way we did," Coach Paul Maurice of the Hurricanes said. "We haven't respected the defensive part of the game."
Andy McDonald made it 4-1 with his fourth goal of the season, taking a feed from Keith Tkachuk and beating Cam Ward, who allowed four goals on 17 shots before Perron scored an empty netter.
"That goal was a big one, because they were pressing us at the time," Murray said.
Mason was solid in the net for the Blues, who won despite allowing Carolina eight power-play chances. Both goals, by Joe Corvo and Scott Walker, came on the power play.
Carolina dropped to 0-4-2 this season when allowing the first goal.
St. Louis 3 1 1 -- 5
Carolina 1 0 1 -- 2
First Period--1, St. Louis, Perron 2 (Berglund, Crombeen), 7:32. 2, St. Louis, Stastny 1, 15:52. 3, St. Louis, McClement 3 (Perron, Sydor), 16:08. 4, Carolina, Corvo 2 (Wallin, Staal), 19:07 (pp).
Second Period--5, St. Louis, McDonald 4 (Tkachuk, Polak), 9:42.
Third Period--6, Carolina, Walker 2, 8:12 (pp). 7, St. Louis, Perron 3, 19:08 (en).
Shots on Goal--St. Louis 11-3-4--18. Carolina 14-5-17--36. Goalies--St. Louis, Mason. Carolina, C.Ward. A--15,549 (18,680). T--2:24.
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