ST. LOUIS -- Ray Ferraro scored his second goal of the game on a power play with 4:52 left as the St. Louis Blues beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Cory Stillman got Al MacInnis' rebound behind the net and passed out to Ferraro, who was stationed to the right of the crease. Ferraro wristed the puck past rookie goalie Jan Lasak for the game-winner.

Lasak was recalled Monday from AHL affiliate Milwaukee and made his NHL debut. He had to face a penalty shot by Keith Tkachuk, which he stopped.

In the first period, the Blues had a 19-5 shot advantage. For the game, St. Louis outshot Nashville 42-15, including 14-2 in the final period.

A backhander by Ferraro tied the game at 2 at 3:46 of the third period. Dallas Drake fed him in front of the crease. Ferraro waited for Lasak to commit and then he flipped a backhand high.

The Predators jumped out to a 1-0 lead on their first shot at 2:36 of the first period. Reed Simpson one-timed the puck past Brent Johnson, who was back in goal after sitting out Sunday's game with a sore hip flexor.

Stillman tied the game at 1 at 10:43. Alexander Khavanov hit a slap shot that Stillman deflected by a screened Lasak. The play was reviewed, but the goal was allowed to stand.

The Blues were awarded a penalty shot at 13:20 of the first when Karlis Skrastins pulled down Tkachuk as he was streaking toward the goal.

It was Tkachuk's first penalty shot as a member of the St. Louis Blues. Tkachuk skated in to the right and then went to his left. Lasak went down and blocked the attempt with his pad. Tkachuk is 1-for-3 on penalty shots for his career.

A power-play goal at 17:34 of the second by Andy Delmore gave Nashville a 2-1 lead. From behind the net, Scott Hartnell passed to Delmore, who lifted the puck over Johnson.

Just 1:22 later, referee Blaine Angus disallowed a Drake goal, ruling the winger kicked the puck in by a sprawled Lasak.

Hartnell was carried off on a stretcher early in the third period after he ran into a padded post. The Nashville bench went out to be by Hartnell as he was attended to by medical personnel. Hartnell did not return.

LAWSUIT: After sitting out for two weeks with a broken foot, defenseman Dave Babych suited up for the Philadelphia Flyers' opening playoff game against the Buffalo Sabres in 1998.

But the pain was too much, and he went to the locker room and started undressing. That's when he says a team doctor told him he could play and his coach told him he had to.

The decision for the veteran to return to the ice that night is now at the center of a $2 million lawsuit scheduled to go to court this summer.

Babych, who played with five NHL teams between 1980 and 1999, is suing Comcast-Spectacor, owner of the Flyers, and the team's doctor, saying he was pressured to play in the playoffs despite a serious foot injury. The decision, he says, led to the end of his career.

"If he wins, there could be some effect of this on the role of team doctors," said Mark Conrad, who teaches sports law at Fordham University. "But of course, that's a big 'if."'