St Louis give Dallas the Blues

Reasoner was a constant threat

Blues 2-1 Stars
(Blues lead 2-0 in best-of-seven series)

Marty Reasoner and Scott Young's first-period goals helped St Louis to a 2-1 win over Dallas Stars and extend their best-of-seven semi final score to 2-0.

The Stars were without Mike Modano and suffered a further blow when centre Shaun Van Allen was the recipient of an apparent jaw injury in the first period.

Reasoner, the unlikely hero in Game One with two goals and an assist, put the Blues on top, 85 seconds into the opening period.

Keith Tkachuk broke down the middle and veered left before sliding the puck back across the slot to set up Reasoner for the easy deflection.

Young added a shorthanded goal at 9:32. Young sped down the right side and jinked round Sergei Zubov.

He then drew Belfour out of position, came out on the left side and thrashed a shot off the goaltender's left skate into the net.

After a busy first period, St Louis goalkeeper Roman Turek made only five saves in the second, sliding to stop Grant Marshall from the low left faceoff circle with 50 seconds left.

The Stars finally got one past Turek with 51.4 seconds left as Brett Hull intercepted MacInnis's clearing attempt at the left point and fired a shot that was headed four feet wide of the net.

But Nieuwendyk was positioned along the goalline and scored his third playoff goal on a deflection.