Blues forward Steve Ott to miss 3 months

Stastny would get the next great look of the game a short time later but Sparks had an answer as he snared the puck with his glove shutting down the Blues for the first of many times in the game.

Polak, traded to the Maple Leafs from the Blues before the start of the 2014-2015 season, had his eighth two-point game of his career with a pair of assists. Blues F Steve Ott suffered a lower-body injury late in the first period and did not return.

In a period that the Blues dominated the first 15-17 minutes to be tied after one was not a good feeling to have. His teams are 7-1 in those games. But he has found the net three times in the last four games and this could be the beginning of a much-expected spurt in scoring.

The Blues didn’t look like a team that had gotten into town at 1:15 that morning after playing Friday night in NY. Stastny took the puck into the zone and passed to Tarasenko just inside the right circle. Garret Sparks stopped 27 shots for his second career victory. Sparks had two games of National Hockey League experience before Saturday while Bibeau is waiting to make his National Hockey League debut…. He got right after him. He crashed into the boards with his legs spread wide, effectively doing the splits at a high speed. “That was the turning point in the game”.

If the missed chances stung in the first intermission, in the second, they hurt. Roman Polak with the shot off Brad Boyes who gets credit. And with 11:03 to go, Toronto took the lead.

Parenteau put the Maple Leafs up 3-1 at 8:57 when he back-handed a shot past Allen on a delayed penalty. It was the same thing Hitchcock had done when the Blues were playing Chicago on November 4, lifting Elliott and then putting him back in 41 seconds later.