ST. LOUIS _ The Blues dominated much of their game Saturday night with the Blackhawks, outshooting them, outchancing them, and somehow fell behind 3-0.
And then, in a development every bit as unlikely, they scored four goals in the third period, by three players who had combined for four goals with the Blues all season and beat the Blackhawks, 4-3.
Justin Faulk scored with 2:26 to go to put the Blues ahead. Prior to that, Tyler Bozak, who came into the game with three goals, scored twice, and Jacob de la Rose, who had yet to score with the Blues, scored the goal that tied it.
Bozak started the comeback by getting behind Chicago goalie Corey Crawford and finishing off a pass from Robert Thomas to make it 3-1 4:40 into the third period.
It was still that way with seven minutes to go, but Bozak took a pass from Thomas, swung, had his stick lifted, and instead had the puck hit his skate and slide into the net to make it 3-2.
And then, 12 seconds later, de la Rose backhanded a shot off crossbar and in to tie the game with 6:40 to go in the third.
The Blues had a 25-4 edge in shot attempts in the first period, but it took the Blackhawks just 19 seconds to score in the second period, on a fairly straightforward shot by Brandon Saad that seemed to cross up Jordan Binnington, who had the puck go in off his skate.
The Blues had a chance to get even soon after when they went on a power play, but 41 seconds in, Brayden Schenn was called for interference to wipe out the rest of it. And then during the four-on-four, the Blues had too many men on the ice, which gave Chicago 41 seconds with a two-man advantage and 1:17 of one-man advantage after that, but the Blues killed it off.
The Blues weren't quite as dominant in the second as in the first, but they still outshot Chicago 14-9 and had a 22-19 edge in shot attempts.
The Blues had the puck for pretty much all of the first period but couldn't score.
The Blues had a 13-2 edge in shots on goal and a 25-4 edge in shot attempts. One of those Chicago attempts, however, was almost a goal. In a two-on-one break for the Blackhawks, Ryan Carpenter put a shot off the goalpost.
Ivan Barbashev had three shots on goal for the Blues and six shot attempts.
The Blues kept taking the puck away from Chicago and sending it back into the zone, giving them a seemingly constant presence with the puck.
The last 7:27 of the first period was played without a whistle.
