LOS ANGELES -- The goals would not come, the losses mounted and the St. Louis Blues appeared trapped in a spiral.
They desperately needed something to turn their season -- and playoff hopes -- around. They might have found just that in a 7-2 demolishing of the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.
"It took a toll on them, not scoring," Blues goalie Jake Allen said. "We needed one of those games. I don't know when the last time was we had a game like that."
St. Louis, which had lost nine of its last 10 and averaged just 1.