COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Nick Foligno set a career high with his 19th and 20th goals of the season and also had an assist to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets past the St. Louis Blues 7-1 on Friday night.
The defeat ended the Blues' seven-game winning streak and franchise-record 13-game points streak (12-0-1) - and the Blue Jackets' three-game losing skid.
Ryan Johansen scored his first NHL short-handed goal, Corey Tropp tallied for the first time in 66 games and Cam Atkinson, Matt Calvert and Scott Hartnell also scored for Columbus. Curtis McElhinney had 32 saves and Brandon Dubinsky had two assists. Johansen also had two assists and Tropp and Hartnell added helpers.
Paul Stastny scored a power-play goal for the Blues. Brian Elliott was pulled after giving up four goals on 14 shots, with Jake Allen surrendering three on 19 shots.
The seven goals were a season-high for the Blue Jackets.
The Blue Jackets, who hadn't scored more than once in their last two games, notched two goals in the opening period. Both required baseball swings on high pucks.
At the 10:44 mark, Dubinsky squeezed off a shot from the top of the right circle. Foligno, whose previous season high was 18 goals in 70 games last season, crashed the net and, when the rebound off Elliott came out waist high, batted it into the net. It was his first goal in 10 games.
An instant later, McElhinney made a glittering stop on Ryan Reaves' point-blank shot off a Columbus turnover.
Atkinson then duplicated what Foligno did. Johansen's pass glanced off the stick of a Blues player and then off the helmet of Hartnell and took a weird, quirky bounce. It ricocheted off the back bar at the top of the net and to the crease where Atkinson bunted it past a surprised Elliott.
Columbus stretched its lead to 3-0 with a short-handed goal. Artem Anisimov intercepted David Backes' pass in the defensive zone and fed Johansen, who was almost knocked off his skates by a defender's stick. But he regained his balance and the puck and swooped in for his 20th goal on a breakaway. His first career short-handed goal came in his 239th game.
Elliott's night was done soon after. He was replaced by Allen after the Blue Jackets' fourth goal on 14 shots - a redirection by Tropp for his first goal since December 2013.
The Blues finally got on the board at 11:14 of the second on Stastny's power-play goal from a sharp angle.
Foligno followed by settling a bouncing puck with his skate, turning and wheeling on a hard shot from the right hash.
Calvert, who had missed the last two games with an illness, tipped in a pass from Jack Johnson to make it 6-1 early in the third before Hartnell scored off a 2-on-1 pass from Johansen.
NOTES: D James Wisniewski played in his 200th Blue Jackets game. ... The Blues won 3-0 in Buffalo on Thursday night before flying into Ohio's capital city. ... Hartnell played in his 998th NHL game. He's on pace to play in his 1,000th on Monday at home against Los Angeles. ... The Blues, who had won five of their last six meetings with the Blue Jackets, now return home for two games. ... It was the 10th time in franchise history Columbus has scored at least seven goals.
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