Blues stay perfect against Columbus

ST. LOUIS -- Eric Boguniecki scored twice to lead the slumping St. Louis Blues to a 5-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.

Mark Rycroft added a goal and an assist for the Blues. Chris Pronger and Dallas Drake also scored for St. Louis, which won for just the fourth time in its last 14 games.

Backup goalie Reinhard Divis made 23 saves to improve his record to 3-0 and keep the Blues perfect against the Blue Jackets (4-0-0-0).

Geoff Sanderson and Nikolai Zherdev each had a goal and an assist for Columbus. Todd Marchant also scored for the Blue Jackets.

Columbus took a 3-2 lead when Sanderson scored 1:05 into the third period.

But the Blues rallied. Rycroft tipped home Murray Baron's slap shot from the point to tie it at 8:43 of the period, and Boguniecki gave the Blues the lead 1:07 later when he converted Petr Cajanek's centering pass.

Drake then added an empty net goal with 24.9 seconds left.

Boguniecki scored the first goal of the game 7:28 into the contest.

Zherdev tied it with a power-play goal of his own at 13:39 of the first. But Pronger gave the Blues their one-goal lead back when his slap shot through traffic was deflected over Denis' shoulder 4:19 later.

Columbus tied the game again at 2 with 8:26 remaining in the second period when Marchant steered Sanderson's centering pass from the right boards past Divis.