Boyes scores twice in Blues' 4-2 victory

~ St. Louis defeated Dallas for points in its sixth straight game.

ST. LOUIS -- Brad Boyes scored twice, Paul Kariya had a goal and two assists, and the St. Louis Blues extended their points streak to six games with a 4-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.

The win gave the Blues a 22-14-5 mark at the season's halfway point and kept St. Louis in eighth place in the Western Conference. A year ago, St. Louis was 13-21-7 at the midway point and in 15th place in the conference.

Goalie Manny Legace, who learned earlier in the day he had made his first All-Star team, stopped 24 shots. Legace has allowed only three goals in his last 319 minutes of action, stopping 119-of-123 shots.

Keith Tkachuk had the other goal for St. Louis, which has won three straight.

Mike Ribeiro, playing in his 400th game, had a goal and an assists for the Stars. Antti Miettinen had Dallas' other goal.

Boyes got the Blues going when he took a cross-ice pass from Kariya and beat Dallas goalie Mike Smith with a one-timer from the top of the left circle 8 minutes into the game. Kariya made it 2-0 at 15:22 of the first period when he took a pass from Jay McKee and blasted a shot from the slot by Smith.

Ribeiro got the Stars back in it when he deflected Trevor Daley's shot past Legace 3:46 into the second period. But Tkachuk gave St. Louis its two-goal lead back when he deflected Kariya's centering pass by Smith 5:49 later. Boyes made it 4-1 at the 12:27 mark of the period when he converted David Perron's pass on a 2-on-1 break.

It stayed that way until Miettinen scored on a two-man advantage with 1;31 left.

Notes: Sergei Zubov played in his 827th game with the Stars, tying

Derian Hatcher for third on the team's all-time games played list. ... Boyes has 23 goals, three shy of his career high set with Boston in 2005-06. Lee Stempniak led the Blues last with with 27 goals. ... The Blues are 14-1-0 when leading after two periods.