Blues rout Oilers 7-2

EDMONTON, Alberta -- Andy McDonald scored twice and the St. Louis Blues won their second game in as many nights, blowing out the Edmonton Oilers 7-2 on Monday.

David Perron, Brad Boyes, Patrik Berglund, Alexander Steen and Jay McClement also scored for the Blues, who moved out of the Western Conference cellar with their win in Vancouver on Sunday and gained further ground on Monday.

Last place in the West belongs solely to the Oilers, losers of all four games on their homestand. The Oilers have 34 points.

Sam Gagner and Dustin Penner had the goals for Edmonton.

St. Louis started the scoring seven minutes into the first period as both Ladislav Smid and Lubomir Visnovsky went behind the Edmonton net to go after Berglund, leaving Perron all alone in front to take the feed and smack it past Oilers goalie Devan Dubnyk, making his first career NHL start.

Edmonton evened it less than three minutes later as Andrew Cogliano picked off a pass by Carlo Calaiacovo at the Oilers' blue line and took off to get a shot on St. Louis starter Chris Mason, with Gagner following up to tap in the rebound.

Edmonton outshot the Blues 11-5 in the opening period.

The Blues regained the lead three minutes into the second as the Oilers allowed McDonald to get an easy rebound goal for his eighth of the season.

Edmonton tied it up again two minutes later as Penner took an extremely low percentage shot from a bad angle that seemed to surprise Mason and go off his pads and in. It was Penner's 19th goal, making it 2-2.

The Blues once again went ahead on a power-play goal by Boyes at 13:29 of the second period. The goal seemed to rattle the Oilers, who would trail 5-2 just a couple minutes later on goals 39 seconds apart.

The first of the quick goals came once again on the power play as Paul Kariya's point shot hit Berglund on the way to the net, and it was a three-goal lead shortly thereafter as McClement beat Dubnyk high to the glove side.

St. Louis made it 6-2 early in the third period with its third power-play goal of the game, passing it around effectively before McDonald beat Dubnyk on the short side for his second of the game.

Steen scored the Blues' fourth power-play goal of the game with four minutes remaining.

NOTES: The game was the second of four meetings between the two teams with Edmonton winning the first game earlier in the month when it came back from a 3-0 deficit in St. Louis to win 5-3. Edmonton has not won since. . . Dubnyk replaced Jeff Deslauriers in the Edmonton net for the game. Deslauriers had started the previous 14 games with usual starter Nikolai Khabibulin sidelined indefinitely with a back injury.