ANAHEIM Custom Florida Panthers Jerseys , Calif. (AP) — While the St. Louis Blues played perhaps their most complete game of the season, the Anaheim Ducks left their home ice amid boos and embarrassment.Both of these teams are looking forward to their upcoming nine-day breaks, but for very different reasons.Zach Sanford and Tyler Bozak scored goals in their first games back from injured reserve, and the Blues headed into the All-Star break with a 5-1 victory over the stumbling Ducks on Wednesday night.Vladimir Tarasenko, Oskar Sundqvist and Sammy Blais also scored for the Blues, who had lost three of four before splitting two games on a Southern California road trip. They couldn’t have played much better against the Ducks, largely dominating on both ends from start to finish in a win that left sixth-place St. Louis in the wild-card playoff conversation at 22-22-5.“I think everyone played well throughout the lineup,” said Bozak, who had missed the past nine games with a concussion. “Hopefully we can keep working together and building this chemistry. Pucks are starting to go in for us.”In both teams’ final game before the All-Star break and their subsequent bye weeks, rookie Jordan Binnington bounced back from his first career regulation loss with 12 saves in his fifth career victory.“Yeah, it’s a great way to go into the break http://www.officialhurricanes.com/authentic-adidas-rod-brind_amour-jersey ,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “If we play hockey like that, we’re going to win our share of games.”Daniel Sprong scored the game’s opening goal, but the injury-plagued Ducks were then buried in their 14th loss in 16 games.“It was one of the worst games I’ve been a part of, and I’ll leave it at that,” Anaheim defenseman Cam Fowler said. “It’s just been a tough month in the locker room. This whole month has been hard emotionally. We have a great group of guys. We have all the pieces we need. We just can’t seem to find our way right now. It wears on you. This is our livelihood, and right now it’s not going great.”All-Star John Gibson stopped 26 shots before former Blues goalie Chad Johnson replaced him with 9:25 to play, sending fans to the exits early on Anaheim’s only home game between Jan. 11 and Feb. 13. The remaining Honda Center fans halfheartedly booed the team off the ice after it managed just 13 shots.“It’s really frustrating how we can’t come out and compete hard,” captain Ryan Getzlaf said. “As a collective group, we’re not playing hard enough and competing hard enough. Obviously, this break couldn’t come at a better time.”Sanford had his 10th goal of the season and an assist after missing the Blues’ previous three games with an upper-body injury. Bozak, who got credit for a third-period goal that ricocheted off Nick Ritchie’s skate Scott Darling Jersey , returned to the St. Louis lineup after missing nine games with a concussion.Blues forward Ryan O’Reilly played in his 700th career game and had an assist to extend his scoring streak to six games.St. Louis outshot Anaheim 8-0 in the opening 6 ½ minutes before Sprong took a pass from Getzlaf and hit the top corner for his eighth goal since joining the Ducks last month.The Blues responded with a deluge.After Tarasenko tied it with his 17th goal and Sanford scored early in the second, Sundqvist put the Blues up 3-1 off a pass from former Ducks forward Patrick Maroon, who has scored a point in eight consecutive games against Anaheim.The Ducks added another major loss to their injury-plagued season Wednesday when Czech forward Ondrej Kase was ruled out for the season with a torn labrum. Kase also missed the first 18 games of the season with a concussion before scoring 20 points in 30 games.Defenseman Michael Del Zotto made his Ducks debut after the club acquired him in a trade with Vancouver a week ago.NOTES: AL Rookie of the Year Shohei Ohtani dropped the puck in the ceremonial opening faceoff on Angels Night. … Ducks F Jakob Silfverberg missed his fourth straight game with a hamstring injury. The team hopes Silfverberg will return to practice after the break along with F Corey Perry, who has missed the entire season with a knee injury, and G Ryan Miller, who has been out since Dec. 9 with a sprained knee ligament. … Ducks C Ryan Kesler missed his fourth straight game due to the latest problem with his troublesome hip. He is not skating, and the Ducks don’t know when he will return. … F Patrick Eaves will play two games with the Ducks’ AHL affiliate in San Diego before he is re-evaluated. He hasn’t played for Anaheim since Nov. 9 after breaking his ribs. … Former Ducks F David Perron missed his third straight game for St. Louis with an upper-body injury. … Blues D Robert Bortuzzo was a healthy scratch. He had played in 25 consecutive games. Joel Edmundson took his spot in the lineup.UP NEXTBlues: At Blue Jackets on Feb. 2 to open a three-game trip.Ducks: At Jets on Feb. 2 to open a five-game trip. LAS VEGAS (AP) Marc-Andre Fleury sat shirtless in front of his locker, staring blankly, his exhausted gaze fixed nowhere. Pads still strapped to his legs after another spectacular night’s work, the Vegas Golden Knights goalie looked as if he were trying to gather his thoughts, trying somehow to make sense of it all.The rest of the hockey world is Youth Sebastian Aho Jersey , too, as the newly minted Knights play Sunday with the most improbable prize of all at stake – a chance to go to the Stanley Cup Final.The story is well known by now, or at least it should be. But the fantasy has never been so close to reality as it is now, with the Knights up 3-1 going into Sunday’s game against the Jets in Winnipeg.An expansion team born last October on the heels of the Las Vegas massacre that took 58 lives is on the brink of winning it all, confounding both hockey experts and expert bookies alike.Even the guys on the other team are shaking their heads at what the hockey gods wrought.”You know it’s just the stars are just aligning for them,” Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck said. ”But it’s not going to stay that way.”Maybe not, partly because hockey is a notoriously fickle game. But in this gambling town the odds are suddenly in the house’s favor.With the hope they don’t have to play at home again until the Stanley Cup Final, the Knights trotted out some old Vegas mojo Friday night with Wayne Newton and the Blue Man Group making appearances to root the team on. The Backstreet Boys were there and rapper Lil Jon took the microphone to lead the cheers just before Reilly Smith punched in the go-ahead goal in the third period.And, of course, this being Las Vegas the guy doing the anthems was a singing gondolier whose day job is serenading tourists in the faux canals of Venice just across the street.There’s nothing fake about this team now one win from one of most improbable runs ever. Once 500-1 longshots to win the Stanley Cup in their first year, the Knights are now favored – at least in the sports books – to win it all.It’s enough to make even Bark-Andre Furry – the lovable canine and goalie namesake who is now the unofficial team mascot – to sit up and take notice.”It’s nice Authentic Teuvo Teravainen Jersey , but the last one is always the toughest to get,” Fleury said. ”I think we have to keep the same mind set and just go and take it one game at a time and not think too far ahead and be ready to play that next game because they are going to be coming hard.”That mentality has worked well for a team that began the season as an afterthought, a collection of unwanted players from other teams thrown together in hopes of winning a respectable number of games in their first year. The coach himself, Gerard Gallant, had been unceremoniously fired from the Florida Panthers, left on the side of a road with his luggage as the team bus headed down the road.It’s been a remarkable run for a team that likes to call itself the Golden Misfits. They’ve struck gold in Las Vegas, a town that loves winners and has embraced its first major pro sports team.Just how remarkable? Well, consider that while the Knights are five wins from bringing home the Stanley Cup in their first year, the Toronto Maple Leafs – a member of the NHL’s exclusive Original Six club – haven’t won one in the last 51 years.On Friday, the Knights used the same formula – speed and stellar goaltending – that has worked for them all year to beat the Jets 3-1 and take a commanding advantage in the Western Conference finals. It was the third straight win for the Knights, who have no illusion on how tough getting win No. 4 will be.”No team is going to go out quietly this time of the year Womens Victor Rask Jersey ,” Gallant said.Still, everything seems to be aligning in the Knights’ favor. They’re playing hard, yes, but they’re also getting the kind of bounces and breaks that are usually the difference in a series between two evenly matched teams.That continued in Game 4 as Dustin Byfuglien whiffed on an attempt near the blue line and Smith scooped up the loose puck and raced down the ice to score the winner over the shoulder of Hellebuyck with 6:58 left.Soon the Knights were celebrating, and Elvis was singing. Viva Las Vegas blared through the arena, and the crowd of 18,697 filed out happily into the warm desert night.One win away for a team no one dares bet against.—-Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg