(AP) - Kris Russell scored at 1:32 of overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets their first victory in St. Louis in nine games, 3-2 over the Blues on Saturday night. Fedor Tyutin and Derek Dorsett scored for the Jackets, and Mathieu Garon stopped 25 shots in his first game since Jan. 19. The Jackets were 0-7-1 in their previous eight visits to St. Louis. David Backes and Andy McDonald scored for St. Louis, and Chris Mason made 16 saves.
(AP) - Brandon Sutter and Matt Cullen scored in a 26-second span in the third period, and Cam Ward made 39 saves to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 on Saturday night. Sergei Samsonov and Jussi Jokinen also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won five of their last six. Ward has stopped 129 of 134 shots in his last four games. Marian Hossa and Andrew Ladd scored for Chicago, and Cristobal Huet made 20 saves. Ladd, who beat Ward with a wrist shot in the third period, helped Carolina win the Stanley Cup in 2006 before he was traded to Chicago for Tuomo Ruutu last season. Chicago was 5-3 on its season-high, eight-game trip.
(From Peoria Rivermen) - Derek Armstrong scored all four goals for the Peoria Rivermen, and again in the shootout, but the Houston Aeros rallied to beat the Rivermen 5-4 at Carver Arena on Saturday. The first hat trick in over a year and the first four-goal performance by a Rivermen player since 2007 was erased as the Aeros scored four times in a span of 7:34 in the third period to tie the game and force overtime.
Jean-Guy Trudel is the only other AHL Rivermen to score four times in the same game when he did it on Dec. 28, 2007 in Iowa. It was Armstrong’s first hat trick since a two-game rehab assignment during the 2002-03 season with Manchester.
Trevor Baker was inducted into the Rivermen Hall of Fame in a ceremony that took place during the first intermission. He became the 32nd member, 23rd player, and fourth representative of the ECHL era of the Rivermen.
The Rivermen host the Texas Stars Sunday before heading out on a four-game road trip.
