Biggest win of the season for the Blues

The Blues captured a 4-3 shootout win on the road in Chicago as they battled their rival Blackhawks in a thrilling game with high magnitude. Before the game, the Blues sat at 9th place in the Western Conference, only one spot behind 8th place, last playoff spot in the Western Conference.

The Blues drew blood first with a late first period goal from Adam Cracknell as Cracknell scored his first of the season, just getting called up from Peoria. The Blues took a 1-0 lead heading into the first intermission. The second period would be a different story as the Blackhawks scored two goals in the second period to take a 2-1 lead. Chicago goals came from Jonathan Toews and Brandon Saad. This game featured a lot of lead changes, and that's exactly what happened in the third period. Once again, it was Adam Cracknell scoring his second goal of the season on a breakaway to tie the game at two beating Corey Crawford. The Blues then regained the lead with a goal by David Backes, his first goal since 15 games ago. Just when you think the Blues had it in the bag, the Blackhawks score late in the third period as Viktor Stalberg tied the game up at three and these rivals had to battle it out into overtime.

No goals were scored in the overtime period, so these passionate Blues and Blackhawks fans had to anxiously await in a shootout. Chicago and St. Louis both scored twice in the first and second rounds in the shootout, Blackhawks scoring with Toews and Kane, Blues scoring with Stewart and McDonald. Shattenkirk finally ended it with a goal to beat Corey Crawford and the Blues survived in Chicago wit a 4-3 shootout win. The Blues improved to (19-14-2) on the season as they moved up into the 8th place spot in the Western Conference with 40 points. Chicago drops to (27-5-4) as they still sit atop first place in the Western Conference with 58 points. This was the Blues first win in Chicago since February 3rd of 2010 as they were 0-4-4 since then.

The Blues will take on the Columbus Blue Jackets tomorrow night at Scottrade Center at 7 CT. The game can be seen on FSN Midwest or you can listen to it on KMOX 1120.

The Blackhawks will take on the Nashville Predators on Saturday at 2 CT in Nashville.