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Preds Beat Blues

Kyle Turris scored with 2:12 left, and the Predators beat the St. Louis Blues 2-1 Sunday night to sweep the season series from the defending Stanley Cup champs.

 

Nashville has won seven of 10 to climb a point out of the Western Conference's two wild-card spots with three games in hand on Arizona and two on Calgary. The Predators hadn't won three straight since Oct. 29, and now they also have won back-to-back games in as many days over St. Louis.

Craig Smith also scored for Nashville, his sixth in five games.

 

Pekka Rinne, pulled from his last start Feb. 10 in Vancouver, made a season-high 38 saves for the win. Rinne made 14 of those in the third, keeping the game tied until Filip Forsberg chased the puck along the boards. He pushed it over to Turris, who beat goalie Jordan Binnington glove-side with a wrister from the left circle for his ninth of the season.

 

Tyler Bozak scored for St. Louis, and Binnington finished with 22 saves.

 

The Blues currently lead both the Central Division and the West, but they managed only one point in four games against Nashville. St. Louis has lost four straight and is 2-7-3 over the last 12.

 

The NHL has rescheduled St. Louis' game against Anaheim for March 11 and moved the Blues' home game against Florida from March 10 to March 9. Tuesday night's game was stopped at 12:10 of the first when Bouwmeester had a medical emergency.

 

The Blues host New Jersey on Tuesday night to open a two-game homestand.

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