Another Blues Overtime Win Puts Blackhawks in Hole

Defenseman Barret Jackman scored on a drive through traffic, giving the host St. Louis Blues their second straight 4-3 overtime victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday to build a 2-0 series lead against the defending Stanley Cup champions.

St. Louis rallied after Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook received a five-minute major and game misconduct penalty for a vicious elbow to the head of the Blues' captain, David Backes, who had to be helped off the ice, went straight to the locker room and did not return for the extra period.

Vladimir Tarasenko forced overtime with his second goal of the series, beating Corey Crawford with a wrist shot that banged off the right post and in with 6.4 seconds to go in regulation. Jackman scored the winner 5 minutes 50 seconds into overtime. Kevin Shattenkirk had a goal and two assists for the Blues, who also had a goal from Chris Porter.

Duncan Keith, Seabrook and Michael Rozsival scored in a stretch of five shots to put the Blackhawks ahead, 3-2, early in the third period. But Seabrook's penalty proved costly, and he could be suspended for Game 3 on Monday night in Chicago.

The Blues took the opener in triple overtime and fought off a Chicago rally in a game that began less than 39 hours later.

The Blackhawks got no help from a power play that went 0 for 4 and is 0 for 9 since Seabrook scored on their first chance in Game 1.

Tarasenko made the most of the Blues' six-on-four advantage after pulling goalie Ryan Miller.

Keith's goal late in the second ended a scoring drought of 119:27 for Chicago.

SPACE WANTED The Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings head into Sunday's second playoff game in Boston hoping for more room to skate.

Neither had much space in the tight-checking opener that Detroit won, 1-0, on Friday night on Pavel Datsyuk's goal with 3:01 remaining.

Bruins center David Krejci says his team needs to hold on to the puck more and make confident plays rather than dump it in and chase after it.

The more physical Bruins, who had the most points in the N.H.L. in the regular season, are usually the ones crowding opponents. They allowed the second-fewest goals during the regular season.

But the speedy Red Wings stepped up their checking and limited the opportunities for the N.H.L.'s third-highest scoring team.

'We did a fairly good job of boxing out and playing quicker on the defensive side of things,' Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall said. 'In our zone when we got the puck, we were able to get it out fairly quick. We were able to get the pucks deep and go after their defense instead.'

Bruins Coach Claude Julien said: 'They do a good job when it comes to our forecheck. They get there, they like to have bodies in front of us on the forecheckers to kind of slow us down and we have to find ways to get through that.'

LUCIC FINED Bruins forward Milan Lucic was fined $5,000 by the N.H.L. for spearing Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser during Game 1.

NOT EXPECTING DUCHENE Colorado Avalanche Coach Patrick Roy said he did not expect the team's leading scorer, Matt Duchene, to play in the first-round playoff series against the Minnesota Wild. Duchene has been out since damaging the medial collateral ligament in his left knee March 29.

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