Pens beat Blues 6-3 to close out road trip

In front of a near packed house tonight at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis tonight, the Pittsburgh Penguins played an inspired road game and defeated the St. Louis Blues in the fourth and final game of their west-oriented road trip. Miroslav Satan, Max Talbot Evgeni Malkin, Alex Goligoski, Jordan Staal, and Tyler Kennedy tallied goals for the Penguins.

The Penguins did not strike first in this one. Barret Jackman fired one from the point, and it got through a screen and into the net past Marc-Andre Fleury.

Just a few minutes later, the Penguins answered. Satan got a pass from Crosby, then banked the biscuit off a defenseman's skate back to himself, and beat Chris Mason glove side with a rocket wrister.

The Blues regained the lead 17 seconds later when David Perron passed across crease to T.J. Oshie, making it 2-1 Blues.

But the Penguins again came back. Goligoski got a pass from Satan, and walked to the middle of the ice before hitting the twine with another hard wrist-shot.

The Blues appeared to regain the lead seconds later when Patrik Berglund put a rebound past Fleury, but it was ruled that Keith Tkachuk high sticked the puck to Berglund, and thus, the goal was washed out.

Then, Malkin gave the Pens the lead for good when he embarrassed Mason with a howitzer from the point from Sidney Crosby and Peter Sykora. Tyler Kennedy stretched the lead to 4-2 with a feisty chip in around the net within a minute of Malkin's goal.

Berglund got the Blues within one in the third period, but then Talbot scored a beauty to put the game away before Staal sealed it up with an empty netter, his first goal of the season.

Notes-
-Malkin was very unselfish to pass to Staal for the empty netter.
-Malkin is a beast.
-Crosby is quietly closing in on Alex "Lack of" Semin.
-Janne Pesonen played a solid hockey game.
-Best game of the season so far.
-Satan has some serious talent.
-Don't change anything for Thursday. I don't care who's healthy.

GO PENS!