Blues 4, Flames 3
CALGARY, Alberta -- Rookie defenseman Colton Parayko scored twice, leading the St. Louis Blues to a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
They were the first two goals for the 22-year-old blue-liner, who hails from St. Albert, Alberta. He was playing in his third NHL game and the first in his home province.
Troy Brouwer had a goal and an assist for the Blues (2-1-0), while fellow St. Louis right winger Scottie Upshall scored once. Goaltender Brian Elliott made 15 saves to record his second win of the season.
Left winger Mason Raymond, center Jiri Hudler and right winger David Jones all scored for the Flames (1-2-0), while defenseman Dennis Wideman and right winger Michael Frolik chipped in with two assists each.
Calgary goalie Jonas Hiller stopped 24 of the 28 shots he faced.
The Flames trailed 4-2 after two periods before Jones took a pass from Frolik and beat Elliott with a shot to the top corner at 1:42 of the third, but Calgary could not find an equalizing goal.
Despite being outshot 14-7 in the first period, the Flames jumped out to a 2-1 lead thanks to power-play goals by Raymond and Hudler.
Raymond opened the scoring at 1:14 when he finished off a great three-way passing play by tapping a perfect feed from Wideman in behind Elliott. Frolik also drew an assist on the play for his first point as a Flame.
The Blues tied things up at 16:46 when Upshall shoveled a rebound in between Hiller's legs.
The Flames regained their one-goal lead 45 seconds later when Hudler one-timed a cross-crease pass from left winger Johnny Gaudreau past Elliott.
Undeterred, St. Louis kept pouring on the pressure in the second and were rewarded with a breakaway goal by Brouwer at 2:49 followed by a power-play marker by Parayko at 4:47 that gave the Blues their first lead of the game.
With just 31.5 seconds remaining before the second intermission, another point shot by Parayko found its way past Hiller and into the net to put the Blues up 4-2.
Blues defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk and Flames right winger Lance Bouma both left the game in the second period with lower-body injuries and didn't return for the third.
NOTES: The Flames dropped each of the teams' four most recent meetings before Tuesday, including all three last season, games in which they were outscored 12-2. ... RW Scottie Upshall made his debut with the Blues, playing on a line with C David Backes and LW Dmitrij Jaskin. ... A spot opened up in the St. Louis lineup for Upshall after rookie C Robby Fabbri was diagnosed with a concussion earlier in the week. Fabbri took an elbow to the head in the first period of the Blues' 3-2 road loss to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday, and he is out indefinitely. ... The Flames stuck with the same lineup they went with Saturday when they beat the Canucks 3-2 in overtime in Vancouver. ... St. Louis scratched C Scott Gomez and D Robert Bortuzzo, while G Joni Ortio and C Josh Jooris were healthy scratches for Calgary.