ST. LOUIS (AP) - Jeff Skinner had a goal and an assist and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the St. Louis Blues 4-1 on Thursday night to extend their season-high winning streak to four games.
Brett Pesce, Brock McGinn and Riley Nash also scored and Eddie Lack made 23 saves for Carolina.
Jori Lehtera scored for St. Louis, but the Blues ended a two-game winning streak. Brian Elliott made 21 saves before being replaced in the third period by Jordan Binnington, who made three saves in his NHL debut.
Blues owner Tom Stillman and St. Louis Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III dropped the ceremonial first puck as a show of celebration for St. Louis, after the city lost the Rams earlier this week.
Skinner scored the first goal of the game 1:49 into the second period.
Andrej Nestrasil picked off Chris Butler's pass in the neutral zone, skated in and took a shot from the slot that Elliott stopped. The rebound bounced wide and Skinner corralled it and put it home for his second goal in two games and 17th of the season.
The Hurricanes outshot the Blues 15-5 in the second period.
Carolina scored again 3:22 into the third period on a power play. Pesce's slap shot from the left circle deflected off Blues defenseman Colton Parayko's stick and trickled past Elliott for his fourth goal of the season.
The Hurricanes scored again at the 7:13 mark when McGinn beat Elliott with a top-shelf shot, assisted by Skinner, to make it 3-0. The Blues then pulled Elliott.
St. Louis scored 20 seconds after McGinn's goal when Lehtera put home a rebound, assisted by rookies Joel Edmundson and Robby Fabbri.
Nash made it 4-1 on a breakaway goal with 3:39 remaining. It was his second score of the season and first in 31 games.
NOTES: Elliott played in his 300th career game. ... New Jersey's Bobby Farnham was suspended four games by the NHL for his hit on St. Louis F Dmitrij Jaskin in a game Tuesday night. ... Blues C Paul Stastny returned after missing two games with a deep gash on his cheek. ... The attendance of 19,282 was the Blues' 10th sellout of the season.
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