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Germany is already without half-dozen players, due to injury or bad form. http://www.penguinsauthenticofficial.com/mark-recchi-jersey/ . Certainly not Monday night. George Hill took care of the early work, scoring a season-high 26 points, and Paul George closed it out by scoring 11 of his 26 points during a decisive second-half stretch that finally allowed Indiana to pull away from Minnesota 98-84 for yet another win.ST. LOUIS - Paul Stastny is feeling right at home with his new team.A native of St. Louis, Stastny has four points in his first two games with his hometown team after picking up three assists in the St. Louis Blues 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames on Saturday night.Stastny, who signed as a free agent in the off-season, had a goal in his debut with the Blues in Thursday nights 3-2 loss to the New York Rangers. He liked Saturdays result much better.I think we just got more comfortable out there, Stastny said. The first game we were kind of getting the jitters out of the way. I think we just kept it a little more simple, and kind of created chances through turnovers.Joakim Lindstrom and David Backes scored in the first period and Brian Elliott stopped 23 shots for St. Louis.Alex Pietrangelo and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored for the Blues, and Kevin Shattenkirk also had three assists to help St. Louis improve to 7-1-1 in its last nine games against Calgary.Blues coach Ken Hitchcock was pleased with the effort.We managed the puck well, Hitchcock said. We really did a lot of things. We played on our toes. I thought we did a whale of a job.Curtis Glencross ended Elliotts shutout bid with a power-play goal with 4:13 left.I think we executed for the most part the whole game, Elliott said. Its fun watching those guys working hard for you in front of you.Mark Giordano picked up an assist on Glencross goal for his 200th NHL point, and Jonas Hiller finished with 35 saves for the Flames, who have lost five straight at St. Louis.We knew they were going to come out hard tonight, Glencross said. We didnt bring our game tonight. We got outworked. You know when you come into play a big, strong team like this, youree in for a battle. Tom Barrasso Penguins Jersey. Two nights after coming out flat in its season-opening loss to the Rangers, St. Louis got off to a fast start against Calgary.Just 48 seconds in, Stastny got the puck down low on the right side and slid it across the ice to Lindstrom, who tapped it in for his first goal with the Blues and his first goal in the NHL since Oct. 13, 2011.The Flames never recovered.Its tough to start off the game with a 3-on-1, Hiller said. Its a tough building getting score on early and they have a really good team that plays really solid and dont give you too much. You have to open up and thats what they drive off, those counter attacks.The Blues made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 8:44 of the first period when Backes deflected Shattenkirks shot from the point.Another shot from the point by Shattenkirk led to another power-play goal early in the second period. His shot from the left point missed the mark, but the puck came off the boards to Pietrangelo crashing down the right side and he put it home.Tarasenko scored off a centring pass from Jaden Schwartz at 7:10 of the second period to make it 4-0.Stastny now has 49 points in 41 career games against Calgary.When you play a team that many times, youre going to get points against them, Stastny said. My first couple of years, I played them eight times a year. NOTES: Flames RWs Jiri Hudler and David Jones missed the game. 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