EDMONTON, Alberta _ The Blues got a goal that they weren't expecting thanks to a replay review and Vladimir Tarasenko broke a seven-game scoring drought with a goal as the Blues started a three-game trip with a 4-1 win over Edmonton on Tuesday.
Coming off a dismal performance on Sunday in a 7-2 loss to Calgary, the Blues got their third win in four games and fourth in six games as they try to pull themselves back into the playoff race.
The go-ahead goal was credited to Pat Maroon, just his second goal of the season, though what exactly happened remains a mystery. It was ruled no goal on the ice as the puck caromed off Edmonton's Jesse Puljujarvi and disappeared under goalie Cam Talbot's pads, and no publicly available replays ever showed the puck crossing the line, but the league office in Toronto apparently saw something and, after a long review, called it a goal. Edmonton challenged for goalie interference and, again, the ruling went in the Blues' favor, with the goal standing.
That was early in the third period, though the length of the reviews made it seem much later. With 8:17 to go in the period, Tarasenko, playing on a line with Brayden Schenn and Jaden Schwartz, fired in a wrist shot from outside to give the Blues a two-goal lead. It was the 10th goal of the season for Tarasenko, who last scored on Nov. 30. The Blues had a three-minute power play after Edmonton's Jujhar Khaira got a five-minute penalty and a game misconduct for a cross check on Vince Dunn, who got a two-minute penalty.
Schwartz scored into an empty net with 1:51 to play to close the win out. Schenn had an assist on that play, giving him three in the game.
The Blues had their obligatory too-many-men penalty in the first period, but managed to kill the two-minute power play. Seventy-seven seconds after the power play ended, Perron put the Blues on the board, taking a pass from Jay Bouwmeester in his own, skating the puck off ice and scoring with a quick shot from the right side that went in off the post and made it 1-0.
Puljujarvi scored to tie the game 7:25 into the second period. The Blues challenged that Edmonton was upheld, but the goal was upheld, a ruling the Blues didn't agree with, that also gave the Oilers a power play, but the Blues killed that penalty, their third kill in as many tries.
Jake Allen stopped 22 of 23 shots he faced.
