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ST. LOUIS (AP) � Vladimir Tarasenko

called it an �accident� but it paid big dividends for the St. Louis Blues.Tyler Bozak broke a scoreless tie with 7:25 left and Jordan Binnington earned his fifth shutout in two months as the Blues beat the Nashville Predators 2-0 on Tuesday night.Bozak took a cross-ice pass from Tarasenko in the third period and put the puck through the legs of Nashville goalie Juuse Saros. Tarasenko made the goal possible. He kept the puck inside the blue line to keep the play alive for St. Louis and then found a wide-open Bozak.�It was kind of an accident. There�s a bit of luck that�s needed in these games and there was a kind of luck to that play http://www.officialcanadiensprostore.com/authentic-adidas-antti-niemi-jersey ,� Tarasenko said. �It was a big goal for us.�Alex Pietrangelo added an empty-netter on the power play with four seconds remaining.Binnington, a 25-year-old rookie, stopped 19 shots. All his shutouts have come since Jan. 7, when he made his first NHL start. He is 14-2-1 in that span.�We were good tonight right off the bat, hot start,� Binnington said. �A couple chances didn�t go our way, we didn�t get it home, but we stayed with it the whole game and finally in the end there Bozie put one home. We�re playing hard for each other and we�re enjoying it. It�s a special group in here and hopefully we can make the most of it.�Bozak�s big goal came a few seconds after a power play ended.�We worked pucks hard that whole power play and obviously Vladdy made a great pass to me through the seam and I tried to shoot it quick,� Bozak said. �I knew there was a chance I could score and luckily it found a hole.�Saros said he was paying attention to Tarasenko on the play.�They moved the puck well and they had a one-seam pass and I was maybe over-anticipating one more pass in the middle Authentic Artturi Lehkonen Jersey ,� Saros said. �I should have focused more on the shooter there.�Nashville coach Peter Laviolette did not fault Saros, who finished with 42 saves.�He played a great game. He did his job,� Laviolette said. �It just wasn�t enough. We didn�t have enough going the other way.�St. Louis won the season series 4-1-0, taking the final four matchups from its Central Division rival. The Blues are 11-4-0 in their last 15 games against the Predators, who have a one-point lead in the division over Winnipeg.The third-place Blues have three games in hand on Nashville.�This is a team that we�re behind,� Bozak said. �It�s a team that we want to catch and possibly get ahead. Our goal is to keep moving up in the standings and keep getting better.�St. Louis has won its past seven home games, the longest active streak in the league. The Blues also set a franchise record with 12 wins in February and matched their mark for any month (April 2013).�We were in last place when January started,� Tarasenko said. �I don�t know the stats. There�s so many games. You move from one game to another. There�s no thinking about how many you�ve won at home or on the road. We just try to win every game. We try to keep it rolling.�Nashville got on the power play in the third when Colton Parayko was called for high-sticking at 8:08, but the Predators didn�t get a shot during the two minutes. Right after the penalty Carey Price Jersey , Parayko had a breakaway but Saros blocked the shot.Binnington thwarted Filip Forsberg at 2:20 of the final period. Forsberg was all alone in front but couldn�t score.The Blues came right back with a big chance when Ryan O�Reilly hit the crossbar. However, the puck bounced straight down in the crease and out.The teams battled through two scoreless periods. St. Louis controlled the action for the most part, outshooting the Predators 24-14. The Blues had one power play in the first period but Nashville killed it. The Predators were unable to score when they were on the power play in the second.�Goalies are good and they�re going to make saves,� Blues coach Craig Berube said. �That�s part of the game. You have to stay with it and we did.�NOTES: Blues LW Alexander Steen was scratched with the flu. St. Louis recalled Sammy Blais on emergency conditions from San Antonio. � New defenseman Michael Del Zotto was a healthy scratch for the Blues. He was in Vancouver on Monday with Anaheim when the trade was completed and arrived in St. Louis late Tuesday morning. He has split this season between the Canucks and Ducks, scoring one goal and adding six assists in 35 games. � The Predators made two moves Monday just before the trade deadline, acquiring Mikael Granlund from Minnesota and Wayne Simmonds from Philadelphia. Simmonds was in the lineup Tuesday but Granlund was not.UP NEXTPredators: Play at Winnipeg on Friday.Blues: Play at Carolina on Friday. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) � This may have been the most unusual of Nikolaj Ehlers� four career hat tricks.It didn�t make it any less satisfying.Ehlers snapped a tie with 3:07 to go and then completed the three-goal night when he was credited with a score after getting pulled down with San Jose�s net empty, sealing a 5-3 victory for the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.�The two first ones were almost empty-netters and the third one the puck doesn�t even go into the net,� Ehlers said. �But we got the two points. My line mates made some pretty great plays there. It still feels good.�Ehlers scored in the first period following a bad bounce off the boards that left Martin Jones out of position and then knocked in the game-winner after Blake Wheeler drew Jones out of the net on a wraparound. Ehlers took the pass in the slot and knocked it past Joe Pavelski for the goal.The final score came after Pavelski brought him down with 1:00 remaining Jeff Petry Jersey Kids , leading to the automatic goal because the Sharks had pulled the goalie. It gave Ehlers 14 goals in his past 22 games, including a second hat trick after he recorded one Nov. 29 against Chicago.�(Ehlers) has a knack to put the puck in the net,� said Wheeler, who assisted on all three of Ehlers� goals. �Obviously an incredibly dynamic player. He�s doing a good job of being patient, jumping in the holes at the right time and banging them in.�Mason Appleton got his first career goal and Dustin Byfuglien also scored to help the Jets win for the sixth time in seven games. Connor Hellebuyck made 41 saves.Evander Kane had a goal and an assist against his former team and Joe Thornton moved into 10th place all-time in assists for the Sharks, who had won five in a row. Pavelski and Joonas Donskoi also scored, and Jones made 19 saves.�This might have been our best game in the last six games and it was the one we lost,� coach Peter DeBoer said. �We had a good effort � some unfortunate bounces.�It was an action-packed first period that featured five goals, five power plays Jonathan Drouin Jersey , a fight between Barclay Goodrow and Brendan Lemieux, and a handful of big saves.After the teams traded penalties in the opening 40 seconds, the Jets struck first during 4-on-4 play when Byfuglien stripped Brent Burns near the blue line and skated in for the breakaway goal 51 seconds into the game.But in a sign of what was to come, the Sharks answered just 45 seconds later when Thornton forced a turnover that led to an odd-man rush that Kane converted for his first goal in six games against his original team. Thornton�s 1,040th assist tied Marcel Dionne for 10th place all-time.San Jose then took the lead nine seconds after Tyler Myers was called for interference, with Kevin Labanc�s shot from the circle hitting Pavelski�s pants on the way into the net. Pavelski�s 22nd goal in the 36th game of the season equaled his total from all of last season.The Jets responded with two more goals in the next 2:17, starting with Ehlers� first of the night. Nic Petan then set up Appleton for his first career goal to make it 3-2, and that�s where the game stood after Hellebuyck made a big save on Timo Meier and Burns hit the post on the power play in the final two minutes of the period.The second wasn�t quite as frenzied, although Jones did rob Ehlers late in the period before the Sharks tied it with 5.3 seconds left when Donskoi deflected a pass from Kane into the net.�Tonight was a heavyweight game for us http://www.officialcanadiensprostore.com/authentic-adidas-karl-alzner-jersey ,� said Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson, who extended his point streak to seven games with an assist. �We wanted to this one. But unfortunately they came away with it. We expect to be one of the top teams. Today we showed it in bits and pieces.�NOTES: Donskoi has 100 career points. � Petan suited up for the Jets after missing the previous 10 games as a healthy scratch, taking the place of Adam Lowry.UP NEXTJets: Visit Vancouver on Saturday.Sharks: Host Los Angeles on Saturday.