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The struggling Toronto Maple Leafs are headed to St. Louis to face a Blues team hoping to start a new winning streak. Toronto (22-20-3) suffered back-to-back shutouts at Los Angeles and Anaheim before falling 3-1 at San Jose on Thursday. The Maple Leafs fell behind 2-0 before Roman Polak scored 11:57 into the game for Torontos first goal in just over 133 minutes. We have to find a way to score, we have to figure it out, star forward Phil Kessel said. Its not going in for us right now and that gets frustrating. ... We have to find a way to get back in the win column. Were close but were just not there yet. Kessel is tied with James van Riemsdyk for the team lead with 19 goals despite scoring twice in the last 14 games. Hes been held pointless over the last five on the road. The Maple Leafs are in sixth place in the Atlantic Division with 47 points, 10 behind Montreal and Detroit for the second and third playoff spots. In this league you cant go through stretches like this, Kessel said. Were not out of it, theres still quite a bit of hockey left to play. We just have to stay positive and hopefully well get some results here. Kessel has eight points in eight games against the Blues. St. Louis is 5-0-2 in the past seven meetings behind Backes 10 points, including five of the clubs 11 goals in last seasons two-game sweep. Backes has seven goals and four assists over a five-game point streak. Polak, who spent the previous eight seasons with St. Louis, faces his former team for the first time since getting shipped to Toronto in exchange for fellow defenseman Carl Gunnarsson and a draft pick in June. St. Louis looks to avoid back-to-back home losses for the first time this season when it faces Toronto, which tries to avoid a winless four-game road trip Saturday night. The Blues (27-13-4) are second in the NHL with 3.1 goals per game, and they proved all the more potent during a recent five-game winning streak as they outscored opponents 28-10. However, St. Louis saw that run come to an end in Thursdays 3-2 overtime loss to Detroit. David Backes got the Blues on the board early in the third period and Alexander Steen tied things up with 48 seconds left in regulation, but the Red Wings scored 4:57 into OT. We showed a lot of character in coming back, getting a 6-on-5 goal which has eluded us for that first part of the year, Backes told the leagues official website. We need to close that out after a lot of good efforts to come back. The Blues are 15-2-2 in their last 19 on home ice, tied for the NHLs most home wins since Oct. 25. They havent dropped two in a row in St. Louis since closing the 2013-14 regular season with three straight defeats there. I think thats the best somebodys played against us in this building for a long time, coach Ken Hitchcock said. Im disappointed in some aspect, but I think theres some real good lessons here. This was like a playoff game. This matchup doesnt figure to have the same feel given Torontos recent efforts. The Maple Leafs are mired in a 3-11-0 funk and have been limited to a combined three goals in dropping all five road games in 2015. Barry Bonds Jersey .C. Lions 35-14, was named the CFLs offensive player of the week Tuesday. Sheets recorded his ninth 100-yard rushing performance of the season to tie the Riders club record. Sean Rodriguez Jersey .com) - Thursday marks the official debut of a new dirt racing surface at Meydan Racecourse. http://www.piratesrookiestore.com/Pirates-Corey-Dickerson-Kids-Jersey/ . Both sides of the deal have formally announced acquisitions: TFC introduced Jozy Altidore as a designated player on Friday, while their counterparts announced a three-and-a-half-year deal with Jermain Defoe. [url=http://www.piratesrookiestore.com/The struggling Toronto Maple Leafs are headed to St. Louis to face a Blues team hoping to start a new winning streak. Toronto (22-20-3) suffered back-to-back shutouts at Los Angeles and Anaheim before falling 3-1 at San Jose on Thursday. The Maple Leafs fell behind 2-0 before Roman Polak scored 11:57 into the game for Torontos first goal in just over 133 minutes. We have to find a way to score, we have to figure it out, star forward Phil Kessel said. Its not going in for us right now and that gets frustrating. ... We have to find a way to get back in the win column. Were close but were just not there yet. Kessel is tied with James van Riemsdyk for the team lead with 19 goals despite scoring twice in the last 14 games. Hes been held pointless over the last five on the road. The Maple Leafs are in sixth place in the Atlantic Division with 47 points, 10 behind Montreal and Detroit for the second and third playoff spots. In this league you cant go through stretches like this, Kessel said. Were not out of it, theres still quite a bit of hockey left to play. We just have to stay positive and hopefully well get some results here. Kessel has eight points in eight games against the Blues. St. Louis is 5-0-2 in the past seven meetings behind Backes 10 points, including five of the clubs 11 goals in last seasons two-game sweep. Backes has seven goals and four assists over a five-game point streak. Polak, who spent the previous eight seasons with St. Louis, faces his former team for the first time since getting shipped to Toronto in exchange for fellow defenseman Carl Gunnarsson and a draft pick in June. St. Louis looks to avoid back-to-back home losses for the first time this season when it faces Toronto, which tries to avoid a winless four-game road trip Saturday night. The Blues (27-13-4) are second in the NHL with 3.1 goals per game, and they proved all the more potent during a recent five-game winning streak as they outscored opponents 28-10. However, St. Louis saw that run come to an end in Thursdays 3-2 overtime loss to Detroit. David Backes got the Blues on the board early in the third period and Alexander Steen tied things up with 48 seconds left in regulation, but the Red Wings scored 4:57 into OT. We showed a lot of character in coming back, getting a 6-on-5 goal which has eluded us for that first part of the year, Backes told the leagues official website. We need to close that out after a lot of good efforts to come back. The Blues are 15-2-2 in their last 19 on home ice, tied for the NHLs most home wins since Oct. 25. They havent dropped two in a row in St. Louis since closing the 2013-14 regular season with three straight defeats there. I think thats the best somebodys played against us in this building for a long time, coach Ken Hitchcock said. Im disappointed in some aspect, but I think theres some real good lessons here. This was like a playoff game. This matchup doesnt figure to have the same feel given Torontos recent efforts. The Maple Leafs are mired in a 3-11-0 funk and have been limited to a combined three goals in dropping all five road games in 2015. Barry Bonds Jersey .C. Lions 35-14, was named the CFLs offensive player of the week Tuesday. Sheets recorded his ninth 100-yard rushing performance of the season to tie the Riders club record. Sean Rodriguez Jersey .com) - Thursday marks the official debut of a new dirt racing surface at Meydan Racecourse. http://www.piratesrookiestore.com/Pirates-Corey-Dickerson-Kids-Jersey/ . Both sides of the deal have formally announced acquisitions: TFC introduced Jozy Altidore as a designated player on Friday, while their counterparts announced a three-and-a-half-year deal with Jermain Defoe. Willie Stargell Jersey . The Tinkoff-Saxo rider was still dealing with the right shin he broke in a crash which ended his Tour de France on Stage 10. He hoped to defy his doctors and race in the home Grand Tour he won in 2008 and 2012, but he says there have been complications in his recovery. Jameson Taillon Jersey . This should be celebrated because it will not always be this way. With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Kyle Busch got his 16th career win at Bristol Motor Speedway -- more than any other NASCAR driver at any other track --by holding off Kyle Larson after a late restart in Saturdays Nationwide Series race. Busch has now won three consecutive Nationwide Series races at Bristol since last March, when he and Larson also went 1-2 to the finish. Of his 16 national wins at Bristol, five are in the Sprint Cup Series, seven are Nationwide and four are in the Truck Series. "I definitely like coming to Bristol, I always have," said Busch, who made his first trip to the .533-mile bullring in 2004 testing with Hendrick Motorsports. "Ive definitely gone through some trials with the Cup cars. First couple times here was a rough go-around for me. Sort of got it figured out, was able to start leading laps, start winning races and thats been the biggest things. Why that is? I dont know. I just enjoy coming to racing. To the banked tracks. It takes guts to go fast." Busch now has 65 career Nationwide Series wins. On Saturday, he and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth combined to lead 298 of the 300 laps. But Kenseth was mired in lapped traffic once Busch got out front. "There were sseven or eight (cars) that were really struggling today, so you caught them a lot," Kenseth said.dddddddddddd "Every 25 laps it seemed you would catch the same group. It was tough to get through there. Once he got the lead, it was hard to beat him. Kevin Harvick was second on the restart with nine laps to go, but pole-sitter Larson got by him with seven laps remaining to try to challenge Busch for the victory. He didnt get much of a chance and settled for second. "I just tried to run hard and I know (Larson) was running the top, he loves the top," Busch said. "I knew he was going to be up there. I tried to perfect that a little bit earlier in the race, but it seemed like anybody who was behind me on the restart would be able to jump the two guys that were on the bottom." Harvick was third and Ryan Blaney was fourth. Kenseth was fifth after leading a race-high 178 laps. Busch led four times for 120 laps. "Kenseth, he was really fast," Busch said. "He was lightning fast there much of the day and I was having a hard time catching him. I was just able to bide my time through traffic a little bit better than he did and he got stuck and I passed him." 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With the amount of money given to players by their clubs these days, it is a wonder that so many of those teams allow the sport to continue to take away many of their assets so they can play for a different team in the middle of their season. BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Kyle Busch got his 16th career win at Bristol Motor Speedway -- more than any other NASCAR driver at any other track --by holding off Kyle Larson after a late restart in Saturdays Nationwide Series race. Busch has now won three consecutive Nationwide Series races at Bristol since last March, when he and Larson also went 1-2 to the finish. Of his 16 national wins at Bristol, five are in the Sprint Cup Series, seven are Nationwide and four are in the Truck Series. "I definitely like coming to Bristol, I always have," said Busch, who made his first trip to the .533-mile bullring in 2004 testing with Hendrick Motorsports. "Ive definitely gone through some trials with the Cup cars. First couple times here was a rough go-around for me. Sort of got it figured out, was able to start leading laps, start winning races and thats been the biggest things. Why that is? I dont know. I just enjoy coming to racing. To the banked tracks. It takes guts to go fast." Busch now has 65 career Nationwide Series wins. On Saturday, he and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Matt Kenseth combined to lead 298 of the 300 laps. But Kenseth was mired in lapped traffic once Busch got out front. "There were sseven or eight (cars) that were really struggling today, so you caught them a lot," Kenseth said.dddddddddddd "Every 25 laps it seemed you would catch the same group. It was tough to get through there. Once he got the lead, it was hard to beat him. Kevin Harvick was second on the restart with nine laps to go, but pole-sitter Larson got by him with seven laps remaining to try to challenge Busch for the victory. He didnt get much of a chance and settled for second. "I just tried to run hard and I know (Larson) was running the top, he loves the top," Busch said. "I knew he was going to be up there. I tried to perfect that a little bit earlier in the race, but it seemed like anybody who was behind me on the restart would be able to jump the two guys that were on the bottom." Harvick was third and Ryan Blaney was fourth. Kenseth was fifth after leading a race-high 178 laps. Busch led four times for 120 laps. "Kenseth, he was really fast," Busch said. "He was lightning fast there much of the day and I was having a hard time catching him. I was just able to bide my time through traffic a little bit better than he did and he got stuck and I passed him." 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