St. Louis tops Detroit for first time in 2 years

DETROIT -- Mike Sillinger and Doug Weight scored in the third period to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night.

Jamal Mayers also scored to help the Blues win their second straight after losing 11 in a row. Curtis Sanford made 33 saves in the victory, St. Louis' first over Detroit in nine games (0-7-1) since Oct. 29, 2003.

Mikael Samuelsson and Brendan Shanahan scored for Detroit, which lost its fourth straight.

Sillinger scored from the slot after taking Petr Cajanek's pass from behind the net 7 minutes into the third. Weight scored on the power play 1:46 later.

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BLUES 3, RED WINGS 2

St. Louis 0 1 2 -- 3

Detroit 0 1 1 -- 2

First Period--None. Penalties--Wideman, StL (holding), 5:45; Maltby, Det (hooking), 7:50; Boguniecki, StL (slashing), 18:04

Second Period--1, St. Louis, Mayers 7 (Weinrich), 7:32. 2, Detroit, Samuelsson 9 (Fischer), 15:43. Penalties--Fischer, Det (hooking), 4:16; Maltby, Det (hooking), 5:10; Schneider, Det (elbowing), 9:18; Weight, StL (holding), 13:25; Johnson, StL (high-sticking), 16:25.

Third Period--3, St. Louis, Sillinger 5 (Cajanek, Stempniak), 7:00. 4, St. Louis, Weight 4 (Young, Backman), 8:46 (pp). 5, Detroit, Shanahan 12 (Zetterberg, Schneider), 19:08. Penalties--Chelios, Det (holding), 1:58; Franzen, Det (slashing), 7:35; Drake, StL (holding stick), 12:22; Sillinger, StL (interference), 12:43; Shanahan, Det (charging), 19:21.

Shots on goal--St. Louis 6-11-13--30. Detroit 10-11-13--34.

Power-play opportunities--St. Louis 1 of 7; Detroit 0 of 6.

Goalies--St. Louis, Sanford 2-1-0 (34 shots-32 saves). Detroit, Legace 12-4-0 (30-27).

A--20,066 (20,058). T--2:14.

Referees--Marc Joannette, Ian Walsh. Linesmen--Mark Pare, Mark Wheler.