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Game Recap
ST. LOUIS 3, DALLAS 2 (OT)

ST. LOUIS (AP) - After a slow start in the playoffs, Pavol
Demitra is the St. Louis Blues' go-to guy again. The team's
leading scorer continued a postseason surge when he scored from
the right side of the net at 2:43 of overtime for a 3-2 victory
over the Dallas Stars on Monday night.

"Everybody tried to help me and I'm back," Demitra said. "I'm
just happy and I'm enjoying my time on the ice and enjoying my
time with the puck."

Demitra has five goals and eight points in the playoffs,
including an assist in Game 3, and three of the goals have come
in the last two games. He was 10th in the NHL with 89 points, but
had entered the game a team-worst minus-4 in the playoffs.

The game-winner came off a setup from Geoff Courtnall. Demitra
knifed in front of a Stars defenseman and beat Ed Belfour to put
an early end to the Blues' fifth overtime game in 10 postseason
games.

"Somebody made a nice pass out of the corner," Belfour said. "I
wish I could have gotten further out. Demitra made a nice shot."

Two less-likely sources of offense, faceoff specialist Mike
Eastwood and rookie Jochen Hecht, also scored as the Blues cut
the Stars' series lead to 2-1 heading into Game 4 Wednesday
night.

The Stars, the NHL regular-season champions with a
franchise-record 114 points, missed a chance to put the Blues in
an almost impossible situation. Only two teams have recovered
from a 3-0 series deficit, the last the New York Islanders in
1975 against Pittsburgh.

"We never thought about losing," Demitra said. "We know we can
beat Dallas, and we proved it."

Dallas, which got goals from Darryl Sydor and Brett Hull, won
Game 2 in overtime on a goal by Joe Nieuwendyk. The Stars'
franchise-record six-game playoff winning streak came to an end.

"As much as you don't want to lose, you can't win them all," said
Hull, who played his first postseason game in St. Louis since
leaving the Blues after 10 seasons. "You have to battle harder
because it's the playoffs.

"The team that makes the most mistakes usually loses, and tonight
it was us."

Sydor forced the overtime with his first goal of the playoffs at
9:08 of the third. Grant Fuhr got a glove on Pat Verbeek's drive
from the slot, and Grant Marshall got his stick on the rebound
before Sydor tapped it in.

Hecht, who was with the Blues for only three games during the
regular season, had given St. Louis the lead at 4:52 of the
third. Hecht, the leading scorer at Worcester of the AHL with 21
goals and 56 points, joined St. Louis on Saturday. He worked a
give-and-go with Demitra and slipped a backhander past Belfour.

"He's a great player and to play with him is a pleasure," Hecht
said of Demitra. "I'm learning a lot."

The tight-checking game was in stark contrast to Game 2, which
was filled with odd-man rushes. The Blues, playing in front of
the team's first sellout crowd of the playoffs, outshot the Stars
24-18 in regulation.

A four-minute high-sticking penalty on Blues captain Chris
Pronger, who caught Derian Hatcher in the face, led to Hull's
second goal of the playoffs. Eastwood's seventh career playoff
goal in 62 games and second point in 10 games this postseason
came at 2:58 of the second period.


ST. LOUIS BLUES 3, Dallas Stars 2 (OT)

               1ST  2ND  3RD  OT    FINAL
               ---  ---  ---  ---   -----
Dallas          1    0    1    0      2
St. Louis       0    1    1    1      3


FIRST PERIOD - SCORING: 1, Dallas, Hull 2 (Nieuwendyk,
Langenbrunner), 3:07 (pp). PENALTIES: Dallas bench (too many
men), :59; Pronger, StL, double minor (high-sticking), 1:23;
Hatcher, Dal (roughing), 16:14.

SECOND PERIOD - SCORING: 2, St. Louis, Eastwood 1 (Persson),
2:58. PENALTIES: Atcheynum, StL (elbowing), 7:12; Marshall, Dal
(slashing), 10:10; Young, StL (cross-checking), 10:52; Sydor, Dal
(holding), 16:31; Hatcher, Dal (cross-checking), 19:33.

THIRD PERIOD - SCORING: 3, St. Louis, Hecht 1 (Demitra), 4:52. 4,
Dallas, Sydor 1 (Marshall, Verbeek), 9:08. PENALTIES: Hogue, Dal,
double minor (high-sticking), 6:15; Pronger, StL (slashing),
6:15; Pronger, StL (tripping), 12:45.

OVERTIME - SCORING: 5, St. Louis, Demitra 5 (Courtnall, Mayers),
2:43. PENALTIES: None.


SHOTS ON GOAL
               1ST  2ND  3RD  OT    TOTAL
               ---  ---  ---  ---   -----
Dallas          5    5    8    0     18
St. Louis       3    16   5    4     28


POWER PLAY: Dallas 1 of 5; St. Louis 0 of 6. GOALIES: Dallas,
Belfour 6-1 (28 shots-25 saves). St. Louis, Fuhr 5-4 (18-16).

Referees: Bill McCreary, Lance Roberts. Linesmen: Ray Scapinello,
Gord Broseker.

A:19,826 (19,260).


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