By ANDY LEFKOWITZ
STATS Editor

St. Louis (5-6-2) at Philadelphia (7-4-1), 7:00 p.m. EDT

The Blues and Flyers were among six teams added when the NHL
doubled in size in 1967. Since then, St. Louis has not enjoyed
many of its visits to the City of Brotherly Love.

The Blues look for a rare win in Philadelphia on Saturday night
in the opener of a two-game road trip.

Overall, St. Louis is 12-45-1 with 10 ties in Philadelphia.
However, the Blues' futility there was most evident at the old
Spectrum from 1972-88 as they came away with 31 losses and three
ties, including skids of 20 and 10 games.

St. Louis' last trip to Philadelphia resulted in its first
overtime loss. Simon Gagne's power-play goal 27 seconds into the
extra session lifted the Flyers to a 4-3 victory on Feb. 10,
2007.

The sputtering Blues (5-6-2) will try to avoid a season-high
fourth consecutive loss while jump-starting a nearly
non-existent offense.

Rookie Lars Eller scored on the power play in his NHL debut
midway through the third period Thursday in a 2-1 overtime loss
to Calgary. That snapped the Blues' scoreless string at 171
minutes, 5 seconds and came after they failed to find the back
of the net in 26 straight chances with the man advantage.

St. Louis coach Andy Murray was happy to see his team finally
get on the scoreboard following shutout losses to Phoenix on
Oct. 29 and Florida two nights later.

"You know it's a tough league. You have to scrap and claw for
every point you can get," he said.

Brad Boyes and David Backes may want to take Murray's words to
heart.

After leading the Blues with 43 goals in 2007-08 and 33 last
season, Boyes has managed just two so far. That's one more than
Backes, who was second on the club with 31 goals in 2008-09 as
St. Louis made its first postseason appearance in five years.

St. Louis is last in the Central Division, but has a 3-1-1 road
record and closes out its brief swing Sunday in Atlanta.

Paul Kariya, limited to two goals in 11 games last season due to
injury, has scored all four of his goals in 2009-10 away from
home. A seven-time All-Star, Kariya has one assist in his last
six games, but points in five of the six career games he's
played in Philadelphia.

The Flyers (8-4-1) extended their run to a season high-tying
three games as Daniel Carcillo recorded the fourth multigoal
game of his career and rookie James van Riemsdyk also scored in
a 5-2 victory over Buffalo on Friday.

It was Carcillo's first two goals since being acquired from
Phoenix in March. In 32 games after that, Carcillo had five
assists and 101 penalty minutes.

"We did a good job of being physical and getting in their face,"
he said. "We want to get on a roll and gain some points and
momentum."

Van Riemsdyk has two goals and five assists in a four-game
streak. Selected second overall behind eventual Calder winner
Patrick Kane in the 2007 draft, van Riemsdyk is among the rookie
scoring leaders with 14 points.

The Flyers are 5-2-1 at home, scoring six goals in each of their
last two games. With 33 goals, Philadelphia is tied with
Edmonton for the league lead in home scoring.

That could spell trouble for either of St. Louis' goaltenders.
Neither Chris Mason nor Ty Conklin have stood out, but Mason
should be between the pipes.

Mason is 2-1-0 with a 2.02 goals-against average in three career
starts against Philadelphia, including a 4-0 shutout Jan. 31 in
St. Louis. Conklin has also made three starts against the
Flyers, going 1-2-0 with a 3.71 GAA.