NHL - St. Louis Blues/Nashville Predators Preview Tuesday December 26, 2006 - Yahoo! Sports
St. Louis (10-19-6) at Nashville (24-9-3)
Behind new coach Andy Murray, the St. Louis Blues have put together their first three-game winning streak in almost a year. To extend that run, he needs to stop an 11-game slide against the Central Division's top team.
Murray will try for the third time to beat the Nashville Predators when the Blues visit Gaylord Entertainment Center on Tuesday.
The Blues haven't had a four-game winning streak since March 25-30, 2004, and they haven't beaten the Predators since April 3, 2004. Since then, St. Louis is 0-8-3 against Nashville and has been outscored 33-17 during that stretch.
Less than a week after taking over for the fired Mike Kitchen on Dec. 11, Murray led St. Louis (10-19-6) into a home-and-home series with the Predators. St. Louis fell 3-2 on Dec. 16 as Nashville's Paul Kariya scored the only goal of the shootout.
The next night in St. Louis, Kimmo Timonen's power-play goal with 1:49 left in overtime sent the Blues to a 2-1 loss.
Since then, St. Louis has turned it around and recorded its biggest win of the season with a 3-2 overtime victory over Eastern Conference-leading Buffalo on Saturday. Bill Guerin scored the tying goal with 10:32 to play in regulation, and added the game-winner 1:35 into the extra period.
That goal gave the Blues a third straight win for the first time since a three-game run from Feb. 2-8.