From: jca2@cec1.wustl.edu (Joseph Charles Achkar)
Subject: North Stars beat Blues 5-2
Keywords: Blues, North Stars, Hull, Modano
 
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 04:37:53 GMT


North Stars beat Blues 5-2
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  With two short-handed goals in a 17 seconds span early in the second
period, the Minnesota North Stars went on to beat the St. Louis Blues 5-2.

  Sjodin opened the score for the North Stars at 7:12 of the first period
when Russ Courtnall carried the puck from his own end to the Blues right 
end corner where he attracted three Blues defensemen, he then passed the
puck to Sjodin who wide open shot it past Guy Hebert. On their first power
play of the game the North Stars' Mike Craig gave his team a 2-0 lead on a
setup by Dave Gagner at 12:20 of the first.  The Blues had a good chance
on their own power-play late in the period but Jon Casey stopped Emerson.
While short-handed, Mike Modano stole the puck to go on a two-on-one where
he made a beautiful behind the back pass to Hatcher but Hebert came up
with a big save.

  The Blues scored 47 seconds into the second period to cut the Minnesota
lead to 2-1 Craig Janney carried the puck on a two-on-one, faked Tinordi
with the pass but Casey stopped him, Emerson recovered the puck and while
trying to pass it the Shanahan the puck bounced on Neal Broten's stick 
to end up in goal.  At 1:31 Craig deflects the puck to Modano who goes on
another two-on-one break and scores to restore the Stars two goal lead for
a 3-1 advantage. On the next Blues power-play, Ludwig makes a nice defensive
play and pokes the puck to Russ Courtnall who goes all alone on Hebert to
score the Stars first short-handed goal of the season at 2:57. 
On the next play 17 seconds later, Jeff Brown loses the puck to Duschene
who gets a breakaway on Hebert to make it 5-1 Stars.
 
  Later in the second, Jeff Brown scores on a Blues two-man advantage power-
play to cut the score to 5-2. Hull and Emerson assisted.
The Blues played a good third period with Hull hitting the post in one of
many chances to score but the Stars held on to win it 5-2.

The three stars of the game:  1-Mike Modano
		 	      2-Jon Casey
			      3-Nelson Emerson

  For the second game in a row, the Blues used 11 forwards and 7 defensemen.

Blues lines:	Bozon-Korolev-Hull
		Shanahan-Janney-Emerson
		Lowry-Bassen-Rich Sutter
		(Hull and Emerson double shifting)- Wilson - Chase
 
Defensive pairings:  Cavallini-Zombo
		     Butcher-Giles
		     Brown-Quintal
		     Laperriere (Used mainly on the power-play)

Scratches: Prokhorov, Karamnov, Norwood, Baron.
injuries: Ron Sutter, Bret Hedican.

Next for the Blues: Chicago on saturday and Tampa Bay on tuesday. Both 
games are at the St. Louis Arena.
	
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