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Alex Pietrangelo scored two goals in the Blues' win over the Rangers on Saturday night. AP STATS Mar 18, 2018 at 2:08a ET CHICAGO — The St. Louis Blues will try to maintain their recent success in their division rival’s building when they visit the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night at the United Center. St. Louis (38-28-5) has earned at least one point in six of its previous eight visits to Chicago. The Blues will play the Blackhawks three times in their final 11 games of the regular season. Blues coach Mike Yeo knows that his players need to be sharp for any chance at making the postseason. Yeo’s team is coming off a 4-3 overtime victory against the New York Rangers on Saturday night, but remains on the outside looking in when it comes to the Western Conference playoff race. “I still feel confident, yeah,” Yeo said earlier this week to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “We’re showing that we’ve got fight in … [Read more...] about Blues have chance to regain more playoff ground against Blackhawks

Brayden Schenn's overtime goal lifted the Blues to a 4-3 victory over the Rangers on Saturday night. Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Joe Harris AP Mar 18, 2018 at 12:32a ET ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues got a much-needed two points against the New York Rangers. They hope they didn’t lose leading scorer Vladimir Tarasenko in the process. Brayden Schenn scored 1:02 into overtime, Alex Pietrangelo had two goals in regulation and the St. Louis Blues came back to beat the New York Rangers 4-3 on Saturday night. But Tarasenko played just 7:53 of the first period and left the ice following his last shift of the period with what the team called an upper-body injury. He did not return to the Blues bench to begin the second period. Coach Mike Yeo said no update will be given until Sunday morning before the team plays at Chicago. “There’s not much to react to at the time,” Blues forward Alexander Steen … [Read more...] about Schenn’s goal lifts Blues to 4-3 overtime victory over Rangers

Tarasenko played 7 minutes, 53 seconds in the first period and left the ice following his last shift of the period with no visual injury. Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. AP Mar 17, 2018 at 10:12p ET ST. LOUIS — Vladimir Tarasenko left the St. Louis Blues’ game against the New York Rangers on Saturday night with an upper-body injury and will not return. Tarasenko played 7 minutes, 53 seconds in the first period and left the ice following his last shift of the period with no visual injury. He did not return to the Blues’ bench to begin the second period. The Rangers lead the Blues 3-2 heading into the third period. Vladimir Tarasenko (upper-body injury) will not return to tonight's game. #stlblues — St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) March 18, 2018 FOX Sports MidwestSt. Louis Blues … [Read more...] about Tarasenko leaves Blues game with upper-body injury

Michael Porter Jr. scored 16 points in Missouri's loss to Florida State on Friday night. Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODA Teresa M. Walker AP Mar 17, 2018 at 1:21a ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ninth-seeded Florida State has lots of guys who can score, and the Seminoles used that depth to win their fourth straight NCAA Tournament opener. Mfiondu Kabengele scored 14 points, and Florida State beat No. 8 seed Missouri 67-54 on Friday night in the West Region. Florida State (21-11) will play No. 1 seed Xavier in the second round on Sunday. PJ Savoy had 12 points and Phil Cofer scored 11. A total of 10 Seminoles scored at least two points apiece — by halftime — as they wore out Missouri, which had only eight healthy players available. This was the first trip to the tournament for every player on the roster for Missouri (20-13). Even with new players and a new coach in Cuonzo Martin, the Tigers head home from their first NCAA … [Read more...] about Mizzou’s season ends with 67-54 loss to Florida State

STATS Mar 17, 2018 at 12:30a ET ST. LOUIS — After a two-game span in which they scored 11 goals, the St. Louis Blues‘ scoring woes returned in a 4-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night. The Blues mustered one goal despite putting 45 shots on net. They missed the net 22 times, including an open net chance for Vladimir Tarasenko early in the third period, and had 15 more blocked. “Before we were talking how we couldn’t score, I don’t think we were generating a whole lot of chances,” Blues forward Brayden Schenn told NHL.com. “Tonight, I don’t know how many we had. We did whatever we could, we threw them at the net, we got second chances, third chances, hit posts, just one of those nights it wasn’t able to go in.” St. Louis needs to find its offense fast. The Blues (37-28-5, 79 points) sit five points behind both the Dallas Stars (38-26-7, 83 points) and Colorado (38-24-6, 82 points), the … [Read more...] about Blues desperately need to regain scoring touch against Rangers

Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas says he let himself get too excited about returning to the major leagues as spring training began. AP/Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. AP Mar 16, 2018 at 8:04p ET WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Miles Mikolas admitted he let himself get too excited about being back at home and pitching in major league spring training games. He returned from three years in Japan and was pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals at their training camp in his hometown of Jupiter, Florida. The results in his first two outings were not good. “Like a dog, I finally got the ball, or the bone, and I was so happy to get it I kind of, maybe, overdid it,” Mikolas said. He has bounced back with a pair of strong outings, most recently throwing five scoreless innings for a split squad in a 4-2 loss to Washington on Friday. Eschewing higher-priced free agents, St. Louis signed Mikolas to a $15.5 million, two-year contract … [Read more...] about Cardinals’ Mikolas feels ‘a lot more relaxed’ as Opening Day approaches

FOX Sports Midwest Mar 16, 2018 at 4:14p ET All Yadi today, folks. #[email protected]) pic.twitter.com/zKq3VP82ve — FOX Sports Midwest (@FSMidwest) March 16, 2018 In other split-squad game, Mikolas shines, Gyorko goes deep but #STLCards [email protected]) pic.twitter.com/krXzp4VKu9 — FOX Sports Midwest (@FSMidwest) March 16, 2018 FOX Sports MidwestSt. Louis Cardinals … [Read more...] about Cardinals beat Marlins, fall to Nationals in split-squad games

Joel Edmundson pulled the Blues within one at 9:15 of the second with his seventh. AP AP Mar 15, 2018 at 11:20p ET ST. LOUIS — Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and an assist, Semyon Varlamov stopped 44 shots and the Colorado Avalanche beat the St. Louis Blues 4-1 on Thursday night. Mikko Rantanen also scored twice to help the Avalanche win their third straight to move into the first wild card spot in the Western Conference, one point ahead of idle Dallas — and five ahead of St. Louis. The Avalanche, who won 10 in a row from Dec. 29-Jan. 22, are 6-0-3 in their last eight games. Joel Edmundson scored for St. Louis, and Jake Allen finished with 19 saves. MacKinnon scored twice in a span of 2:53 in the first period to give Colorado a 2-0 lead with just under seven minutes remaining. He has 11 goals and 13 assists in 13 games since returning from a shoulder injury on Feb. 18. MacKinnon, who leads the team with 35 goals, had his 24 multipoint … [Read more...] about Blues get plenty of shots but not enough goals in 4-1 loss to Avs

Michael Porter Jr. shot 5 of 17 in a 62-60 loss to Georgia last week. AP/Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. AP Mar 15, 2018 at 8:55p ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Missouri freshman Michael Porter Jr. is one of the biggest unknowns in the NCAA Tournament. Not that he minds at all. “People can kind of say what they want,” Porter said Thursday. “I’m pretty good at taking what people say and putting it aside and focusing on what’s important for me.” Porter is a big topic of conversation if only because he came in last fall as a preseason All-American based on being the nation’s top recruit until Duke’s Marvin Bagley decided to go to college himself a year early. Then Porter left two minutes into Missouri’s season opener with a hurt back and needed surgery. That sidelined him until Missouri’s lone game in the Southeastern Conference Tournament. The 6-foot-10 … [Read more...] about Mizzou’s Porter remains a big unknown heading into Florida State game

Joe McKnight played two games with the Chiefs in 2014. Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports Kevin McGill AP Mar 15, 2018 at 12:03p ET GRETNA, La. — The man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 road-rage shooting death of former NFL running back Joe McKnight was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday. Ronald Gasser, 56, had faced up to 40 years in prison. Defense lawyers argued that Gasser fired in self-defense when McKnight walked up to his car following a 5-mile confrontation that began on a bridge spanning the Mississippi River in New Orleans and ended with gunfire in neighboring Jefferson Parish. McKnight’s mother testified Thursday during the sentencing hearing. Jennifer McKnight left the courtroom sobbing after angrily telling Gasser: “You didn’t have to do that.” Witnesses at the trial said McKnight had been weaving in and out of traffic at high speed before the shooting. Prosecutors acknowledged … [Read more...] about Man gets 30 years for road-rage killing of ex-Chiefs RB McKnight