"It went much the way everyone expected when the team with the NHL's best home record (19-3-3) took on a 29th place club missing six of its best guys.

Which is to say, badly.

It was close, but it was bad.

Bad game, bad result for the decimated and slumping Oilers, who limited the damage to 1-0 in a loss to the red hot Blues Thursday in St. Louis."