Blues' Weight ends scoring drought in win over Sharks

ST. LOUIS -- Empty net or not, Doug Weight was happy to finally score again.

The St. Louis Blues' All-Star scored his first goal in 29 games to cap a 4-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night. He's among the league leaders with 44 assists, but admitted his 12th goal with 27.4 seconds to go, felt good.

"It's nothing I was losing sleep over," Weight said. "But it was getting there."

Teammates were anxious for Weight to get the monkey off his back. Keith Tkachuk came off early and Dallas Drake insisted Weight take his left wing shift so Weight could get a chance at an easy one.

"I kind of felt stupid," Weight said. "I've got 200-some goals in my career. But everybody was face-washing me like it was the first of my career, and it kind of felt like it."

Tkachuk scored his seventh goal in five games to snap a second-period tie. The Blues won after giving up the first goal of a game for the 17th time, and avoided a third-period letdown after settling for ties with the Rangers and Stars the previous two games. The Central Division leaders are 3-0-2 overall in their last five games.

Drake added his third goal in four games and Al MacInnis had two assists.