St. Louis ends two-game slide, defeats Stars 5-3

ST. LOUIS -- Doug Weight scored two goals to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 5-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday night.

The Blues are 7-3-1 in last their 11 games and snapped a two-game skid. Dallas has scored just five goals in going 0-2-2 in its last four games.

The Blues opened the scoring 66 seconds into the game on defenseman Eric Brewer's wrist shot, his first goal since Jan. 30. It was the third straight game in which St. Louis has scored on its first shot. Lee Stempniak and Brad Boyes also scored for the Blues.

Mike Modano, Jere Lehtinen and Philippe Boucher scored for Dallas.

The Starswere unable to score despite having a two-man advantage for 1:25 early in the first period. Dallas also failed to score with a two-man advantage for 1:19 midway through the third period.

St. Louis moved ahead 2-0 on Weight's power-play goal at 2:07 of the second period. Boyes made a pass across the crease that Weight tapped in from the right side.

Dallas cut the lead to 2-1 on Modano's score 5:55 into the second period. His 498th career goal came on a shot from the slot that caromed in off the left post in the second period.

St. Louis regained the two-goal lead when Stempniak scored with just under two minutes left in the middle period. It was his 10th point in the last 10 games.

Lehtinen scored on a wrist shot from the top of the right circle 3:29 into the third period to cut St. Louis' lead to 3-2.

The Blues went ahead 4-2 at 16:22 of the third when Boyes knocked in a loose puck. Petr Cajanek's shot hit Dallas goalie Mike Smith in the shoulder and Boyes tapped in the rebound.

Weight scored an empty-net goal with under two minutes to go. Weight has four goals and three assists in his last five games.

Dallas scored on a power play goal by Boucher with 12 seconds left.

Smith dropped to 4-2-1 in his last seven games in goal.

St. Louis is 2-1-0 with Dallas this season. Both wins have come on home ice.

Notes: The Blues rank last in shots on goal at 26.8 a game. ...

St. Louis forward Jamal Mayers skated in his 500th game. ... Dallas goalie Marty Turco, who was given the night off, is one win shy of his fourth consecutive 30-win season. Only Martin Brodeur has more consecutive 30-win seasons (11) among active goalies.