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Thursday, Oct. 19 8:00pm ET
Blues hold Palffy, Robitaille scoreless

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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The St. Louis Blues beat the Los Angeles Kings from top to bottom.

Roman Turek stopped 17 shots and seven St. Louis players scored as the Blues beat the Kings 7-1 Thursday night.

Turek and the Blues shut down the Kings, who entered as the NHL's highest-scoring team with 29 goals in their first seven games.

"This was our best game of the year and it was a great effort by everybody," Blues coach Joel Quenneville said. "I really thought we played great."

The Blues took a 1-0 lead when forward Craig Conroy scored a short-handed goal at 6:11 of the first period. The goal was Conroy's first of the season and the first short-handed tally Los Angeles allowed this year.

St. Louis increased its lead to 2-0 at 9:42 of the first when Pavol Demitra was credited with a fluke goal. Demitra scored his third of the season when he attempted to center the puck, but it deflected off the stick of Kings defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky's and slid under rookie goalie Steve Passmore, who was sprawled on the ice.

Jochen Hecht scored his fourth goal at 6:22 of the second to make it 3-0.

The goal extended Hecht's point-scoring streak to six games. It was a power-play goal and only the second the Blues have scored in their last 22 man-advantage situations.

"Our team had its poorest game to date," Kings coach Andy Murray said. "That's a compliment to the Blues because they made us look so bad."

Mike Eastwood also scored in the second period for St. Louis.

"Once they got ahead, they kept coming and didn't let up at all," Los Angeles defenseman Mattias Norstrom said.

Scott Young scored his seventh goal of the season, also on a power play, at 6:11 of the third. Michal Handzus and Pierre Turgeon added third-period goals.

"We had a lot of guys break out tonight and we've got a lot of depth and it helps your confidence when a lot of people get on the scoresheet," Young said.

Los Angeles rookie forward Steve Reinprecht scored the lone goal for the Kings at 8:22 of the final period.

The Blues controlled play from the outset and outshot Los Angeles 13-3 in the first period and 30-18 for the game.

St. Louis held Kings forwards Ziggy Palffy and Luc Robitaille, who came into the game tied for first in the league with 12 points, off the scoresheet.

"You always want your best players to play their best and tonight they were shut down," Murray said.

In the last meeting between the teams Oct. 11, the Blues erased a four-goal Kings lead in the third period to earn a tie.

Game notes
The six goals are the most St. Louis has scored in a game this season. ... St. Louis has outshot its opponent in all seven games. ... Los Angeles has outscored its opponents 13-2 in the first period. ... The Kings scored multiple power-play goals in four of their previous six games. ... A moment of silence was observed before faceoff for Missouri governor Mel Carnahan, who was killed in a plane crash Monday.

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