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Monday, Jan. 3 7:30pm ET
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Pierre Turgeon extended a personal streak and sent the New York Rangers deeper into one. With a goal and an assist Monday night, Turgeon stretched his point-scoring streak to 15 games as the St. Louis Blues kept New York winless in seven contests with a 5-2 victory over the Rangers. Turgeon tied Pittsburgh's Jaromir Jagr for the longest streak this season. "I just try to take it shift-by-shift and win the battles along the boards," Turgeon said. The Rangers are 0-3-3-1 in their last seven games. Lubos Bartecko scored twice and Todd Reirden had three assists for St. Louis. Bartecko's second goal, at 14:51 of the second period, gave the Blues a 3-1 lead. He converted a perfect cross-ice pass from Turgeon for his eighth of the season. John MacLean deflected a point shot from Mathieu Schneider past Roman Turek on a power play at 17:15 of the second to pull New York within 3-2. Turgeon blasted a slap shot from the right circle over Mike Richter's glove at 14:40 of the third for a 4-2 lead. Craig Conroy completed the scoring with his sixth goal at 19:15. "I think they were pinching in," Turgeon said of the Rangers' play in the third period. "They had to force the play to try to get the third goal. When you do that you allow more two-on-one and three-on-two breaks. We got confident and just tried to keep the puck in deep and apply pressure." Tim Taylor put New York ahead 1-0 at 3:22 of the opening period, with his seventh goal, when he shoveled the puck from the deep slot past a screened Turek. The goal came on New York's first shot, but they had few other chances as the Blues held them to four shots on goal in the period. "They get back quickly, are very disciplined and they block out in front of their own net well," Rangers forward Adam Graves said. Bartecko evened the score with a breakaway goal at 4:53. Chris Pronger caught Bartecko streaking between Rangers defensemen Kim Johnsson and Stephane Quintal and fed him a lead pass. Bartecko deked in close, then slid the puck under Richter's leg. "You want to make a clean pass as much as possible," Pronger said. "It makes it a lot easier for the forwards." Scott Young gave St. Louis a 2-1 lead at 8:19 of the second with his 12th goal. Reirden pinched in along the boards and squeezed the puck out to Young, whose slap shot from the blue line went between Richter's pads. "We had problems in our own end," Rangers coach John Muckler said. "We had too many turnovers in our own end. It was a good hockey game until you had the fourth goal." St. Louis is 14-5-4 since the return from injury of defenseman Al MacInnis. The Blues have won eight of 12 road games. | ALSO SEE NHL Scoreboard St. Louis Clubhouse NY Rangers Clubhouse RECAPS New Jersey 4 Ottawa 3
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