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The last-place St. Louis Blues were in a full-on nose-dive heading into Monday’s game with Edmonton — 3-7-2 on the season and 0-5-2 in their previous seven games. Article content Article content

It’s been so rough that if you spotted them the first three moves in a game of tic-tac-toe, they’d still find a way to lose.

But slumps don’t last forever, not unless you’re talking about the and Stanley Cups. You knew that at some point, the Blues were going to pull out of it and beat somebody.

And, admit it, the way the on-again, off-again Oilers have been stumbling through the season, you kind of worried that it was going to be them.

Well, it was.

The eternally-frustrating Oilers had the sad sack Blues down 2-0 late in the

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