Blues Acquires Victory From Goals

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Home wasn't kind to a tired Winnipeg club on Friday before the Christmas break as it dropped a 4-1 decision to Pittsburgh. The game was even heading into the third period before the Penguins scored three unanswered goals on the way to outshooting the Jets 39-19.

 

Alexander Burmistrov tallied the lone goal for the Jets, who went 3-2-1 on a six-game homestand and sit six points behind first-place Florida in the Southeast Division. Ondrej Pavelec allowed four goals on 39 shots in the loss.

 

Jan Hejda and T.J. Galiardi scored in the third period, while Ryan O'Reilly and Gabriel Landeskog also scored. Semyon Varlamov made 20 stops for the victory.

 

Colorado found success on the road after opting to fly to Minnesota the morning of the game rather than on Christmas Day.

 

Colorado will shoot tonight for its first six-game win streak since Dec. 10-19 of last season.

 

The Blues try to knock off the rival Red Wings for a fourth straight time this evening in the first meeting between the club's this year in Detroit.

 

St. Louis owns a pair of home wins over Detroit already this year, with both victories coming since Hitchcock took over for a fired David Payne on Nov. 6. Hitchcock now makes his first trip to Joe Louis Arena as the Blues' bench boss and would love a repeat of the last performance there even if he wasn't the coach.

 

While another 10-goal night is a lot to ask for, the Blues did notch half of that production last night in a 5-3 victory over the Stars. Stewart had a pair of goals, Evgeny Grachev scored his first career NHL goal and Adam Cracknell lit the lamp on the same day he was recalled from the minors.

 

Jaroslav Halak made 20 saves for the Blues, who have won two straight and are 7-1-1 in their past nine. They also moved to 15-3-4 under Hitchcock and have gone from 14th overall in the West to fourth in that span.

 

St. Louis, which is one point ahead of Detroit in the standings, moved to 14-3-1 at home this year compared to 7-7-3 on the road.

 

Detroit has similar splits, going 13-2-1 as the hosting club this year while improving to 9-10-0 on the road with last night's 4-1 victory in Nashville. Valtteri Filppula scored twice and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves while coming within 2:12 of a shutout. He still picked up his NHL-leading 21st win.

 

The Red Wings are 6-2-0 in the front end of playing on back-to-back nets while going 4-3-0 in the second portion.

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Kurt Warner to start, Matt Leinart to watch

Despite the debate that's swirling , Kurt Warner will remain the starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, coach Dennis Green said today. The Arizona Cardinals are the +7 point underdog at online sportsbook MySportsbook.com for this Sunday's game.

Green's comment came in a statement released by the team following an ESPN report that Green decided that rookie Matt Leinart would replace Warner as starter for Sunday's game at Atlanta.

"Generally talking about the starting lineup is not something we do," Green told the AP. "However, given the speculation that was out there we want to make it clear. We're disappointed after last week, but we still expect to be a playoff football team and we fully expect Kurt Warner to be the quarterback that leads us. That has not changed."

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