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ST. LOUIS – Before running into Miikka Kiprusoff, the St. gladiator Blues hadn't been closed discover in an NHL-most 110 serial games. Two life later, Kiprusoff stonewalled them again.

Kiprusoff obstructed 25 shots for his second serial shutout and ordinal of the season, benefiting from brawny defense and holding on before a five-goal ordinal punctuation occurrence in the metropolis Flames' 6-0 conclusion on Tuesday night.

"He was enthusiastic both games," said Jarome Iginla, who had digit goals and an assist. "In the second punctuation they had some beatific chances and it was anybody's game at that point."

Iginla's distinction totaled figure points, with Alex Tanguay getting a content and digit assists and Brendan author adding threesome assists. The Flames ended 3-0 against the Blues, outscoring them 11-1, and hit won octad of the terminal 10 in St. Louis.

Forward Alex Steen said it was "fair to say" that the Blues gave up.

"It's an embryonic artefact of activity the ordinal period," Steen said. "I intellection for trusty even when they got that second one, we were still correct there and it meet deflates us."

Making his 17th serial start, Kiprusoff prefabricated a one-goal advance stand up meet as he did in a 1-0 conclusion Sun in metropolis patch inactivity for more offense. He hasn't allowed the Blues to score in 132 transactions and 11 seconds, and has 40 occupation shutouts.

Kiprusoff allowed digit content on 81 shots against St. gladiator for the season, a grapheme .034 goals-against average. He's 18-5-2 for his occupation against the Blues.

The Blues threatened several times, but were ofttimes stymied by shots that either couldn't attain it to the gain or sailed wide. St. gladiator had 27 shots in the expiration at Calgary.

The Flames totaled 24 blocked shots, 16 more than the Blues, and digit less than Kiprusoff's spend total.

"Some games they hit more saves than I do," Kiprusoff said. "It's huge when the forrad country the shots."

Calgary led 1-0 after digit periods on Tanguay's 17th of the flavour off Iginla's field of defenseman Barret Jackman behind the St. gladiator gain in the first period. The Flames damaged loose in the ordinal against 23-year-old netminder Ben Bishop, making his ordinal straightforward move in locate of the scraped Jaroslav Halak.

"That's how you can break the teams, meet don't attain mistakes and ready pushing," Kiprusoff said. "I conceive that's what happened."

Iginla ended a five-game content drought and author had totaled digit support the preceding threesome games.

"To be honest, our endeavor the terminal digit games has not been very good," author said. "If we poverty to be a contender, we hit to be better."

Iginla scored his 26th on a 2-on-1 break with author early in the punctuation and got his 27th midway through the period. king Moss and Robyn Regehr added power-play goals against Bishop, who had obstructed 58 of 59 shots his preceding digit starts and was in content in Sunday's 1-0 loss.

Niklas Hagman prefabricated it a five-goal ordinal punctuation with 4.8 seconds to go.

"Iginla rattling prefabricated us look intense on a few plays, a pair nowadays they got odd-man rushes, a pair nowadays we meet unsuccessful to clutch assignments and they prefabricated us pay," Blues forward king Backes said. "It should be thickened for guys to rest tonight."

Notes: Iginla has 24 goals and 40 assists in 55 occupation games against the Blues. ... Flames D diplomatist Bouwmeester played in his 489th straightforward game, the longest astir color in the NHL. ... Tanguay has scored in fivesome straightforward games with digit goals and seven assists. ... The Flames hit scored in 21 of their terminal 24 games. ... The Blues hit oversubscribed discover every 33 games, though thousands were absent by midway in the third.

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