Blues 4 - 1 Blue Jackets
Final
  for this game

Blue Jackets host Blues in season finale

Apr 6, 2008 - 1:49 PM St. Louis (32-36-13) at Columbus (34-35-12) 3:00 pm EDTCOLUMBUS, Ohio (Ticker) -- With little left to play for outsideof pride, two Central Division rivals do battle Sunday when theSt. Louis Blues meet the Columbus Blue Jackets.Long a postseason staple, St. Louis will miss the playoffs forthe third straight season after making 25 consecutive postseasonappearances. A lackluster offense has been partly to blame asthe Blues' 201 goals this season is the third-worst total in theNHL.As difficult as production on offense has been for St. Louis, ithas been even harder for the Blue Jackets, who have an NHL-low192 goals.While the Blues found some offense in the first game of thehome-and-home series on Saturday, it was more of the same forColumbus as it was handed a 3-0 defeat.St. Louis center Keith Tkachuk scored twice to move within onegoal of becoming the 41st player in NHL history with 500 whileManny Legace turned away 25 shots to earn his 27th careershutout.The home team has won all seven meetings this season.








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    FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
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    ST LOUIS 1 1 2 4
    COLUMBUS 1 0 0 1 FINAL
    GOAL SCORING:
    1ST PRD: COB - (PP) MICHAEL PECA 8 (RICK NASH, RON HAINSEY) 4:50
    STL - DAVID BACKES 13 (DAVID PERRON, JEFF WOYWITKA) 14:46
    2ND PRD: STL - BRAD BOYES 43 (KEITH TKACHUK, PAUL KARIYA) 13:08
    3RD PRD: STL - (PP) DAVID PERRON 13 (ER

    Apr 6 5:33 PM


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    ST LOUIS 4
    COLUMBUS 1
    3RD PRD: STL - (EN) KEITH TKACHUK 27 (ERIK JOHNSON, BARRET JACKMAN)
    18:26

    Blues 4, Blue Jackets 1  3rd - 1:34Apr 6 5:32 PM


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    ST LOUIS 3
    COLUMBUS 1
    3RD PRD: STL - (PP) DAVID PERRON 13 (ERIC BREWER, LEE STEMPNIAK) 10:12

    Blues 3, Blue Jackets 1  3rd - 9:48Apr 6 5:09 PM


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    St Louis
    1 1 --2
    Columbus 1 0 --1
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    Shots on goal:
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    St Louis 7 4 --11
    Columbus 14 13 --27
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    Goalies : St Louis, Hannu Toivonen (27 shots, 26 saves). Columbus,
    Fredrik Norrena (11 shots, 9 saves). Referees: Rob Marte

    Apr 6 4:33 PM


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    ST LOUIS 2
    COLUMBUS 1
    2ND PRD: STL - BRAD BOYES 43 (PAUL KARIYA, ERIC BREWER) 13:08

    Blues 2, Blue Jackets 1  2nd - 6:52Apr 6 4:22 PM


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    END OF THE 1ST 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
    --- --- --- -----
    ST LOUIS 1 1
    COLUMBUS 1 1 END OF THE 1ST
    GOAL SCORING:
    1ST PRD: COB - (PP) MICHAEL PECA 8 (RICK NASH, RON HAINSEY) 4:50
    STL - DAVID BACKES 13 (DAVID PERRON, JEFF WOYWITKA) 14:46
    SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
    --- --- --- -----
    STL 7 7


    Apr 6 3:41 PM


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    ST LOUIS 1
    COLUMBUS 1
    1ST PRD: STL - DAVID BACKES 13 (DAVID PERRON, JEFF WOYWITKA) 14:46

    Blues 1, Blue Jackets 1  1st - 5:14Apr 6 3:33 PM


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    ST LOUIS 0
    COLUMBUS 1
    1ST PRD: COB - (PP) MICHAEL PECA 8 (RICK NASH, RON HAINSEY) 4:50
    (TWO-MAN ADVANTAGE)

    Blues 0, Blue Jackets 1  1st - 15:10Apr 6 3:18 PM

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