The Blues experienced one of their worst home starts of the season tonight against the Stars at Scottrade.
Two goals from Jamie Benn and another from Cody Eakin -- all inside the opening nine minutes of the game -- forced Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock to burn his timeout early and yank starting netminder Brian Elliott in favor of Jake Allen.
Here’s Benn’s opening goal at the 2:47 mark, which began St. Louis’ free fall:
From the Dallas perspective, this is a really impressive start. The club struggled to score goals in its first game without Tyler Seguin on Saturday -- losing 4-1 to Colorado -- and will need to continue finding the back of the net while its leading scorer is sidelined for 3-6 weeks with a knee injury.