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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. . It was the most lopsided loss in Lakers history. Darren Collison had a team-high 24 points while starting at shooting guard for the injured Jamal Crawford. Chris Paul added 13 points and 11 assists for the Clippers, who apparently are trying to make up for decades of humiliation at the hands of the Lakers all in one season; theyve won the last two meetings by a combined 84 points. . PETERSBURG, Fla. http://www.authenticvikingspro.com/Garr ... gs-jersey/. His recovery time is expected to be six to eight months. Seidenberg was injured in the third period of Fridays 5-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators, when he got his leg tangled with forward Cory Conacher. . The Oilers have been shut out in three straight home games and are in last place in the Western Conference with a 4-14-2 record. "Things have obviously not gone as well as I would have thought probable. . -- The way Ted Ligety carved into turns looked so easy.Quebec City, QC (SportsNetwork.com) - Adonis Stevenson retained his WBC world light heavyweight title with a knockout, dropping Dmitry Sukhotsky in the fifth round on Friday night. Stevenson (25-1, 21 KOs) sent Sukhotsky to the canvas with a straight left near the end of the round. It was thee fourth title defense for the 37-year-old Haitian-born southpaw since he seized the belt with a first-round knockout of Chad Dawson in June 2013.dddddddddddd. He has won 12 fights in a row. The 33-year-old Russian Sukhotsky (22-3) had a four-bout winning streak stopped. ' ' '