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The Blues had not dropped a game since a 4-3
loss at Los Angeles on Jan. 21.
Radek Faksa and Tyler Seguin each added a goal and an assist for
the Stars, who emphatically snapped a three-game losing streak.
Alexander Radulov also scored for Dallas, which got two assists
from Esa Lindell.
Stars goalie Anton Khudobin made 43 saves to win for the second
time in his past seven games.
Ryan O'Reilly had a goal and an assist for St. Louis, which also
got a goal from Vladimir Tarasenko. Blues goalie Jordan
Binnington made 20 saves but saw his nine-game winning streak
end.
Benn's first goal of the game, at the 3:46 mark of the second
period, gave the Stars a 1-0 lead and represented the first time
since Feb. 5 and a span of 498 minutes, 28 seconds that St.
Louis trailed in a game. The Dallas score came on a flawless
pass from Miro Heiskanen that went through the legs of a
defender before finding Benn's stick. Faksa also got an assist
on the goal.
Faksa added to the lead at the 8:53 mark of the second. He
waited in the crease and backhanded a pass from Lindell past
Binnington.
Dallas pushed its advantage to 3-0 just 1:05 later. Radulov
lifted a shot over Binnington's mask and into the net after a
pass from Seguin and a nifty move to get the puck into a
shooting position.
St. Louis finally answered with 7:03 to play in the second
period. Tarasenko waited in the doorstep for a feed from behind
the net by O'Reilly and made quick work of the opportunity by
beating Khudobin.
The Stars re-established their three-goal lead on Benn's second
goal of the game with 4:04 to play in the period on a redirect
of a shot by Lindell after a pass by John Klingberg.
The Blues made sure there was something to play for in the final
period when O'Reilly scored with 23 seconds left in a wild
middle period.
Dallas was more than up to the task in the final 20 minutes,
finishing off the Blues with Seguin's empty-netter with 44
seconds to play off a pass by Jason Dickinson.
Forward Brayden Schenn did not make the trip to Dallas after
sustaining an upper-body injury in St. Louis' 3-2 overtime win
against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday.
--Field Level Media
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