The Blues found themselves being dominated for the entirety of the first period. The team showed some fight physically as Brayden Schenn and Robert Bortuzzo dropped the gloves with a couple of willing Predators, but that was all the fight the Blues had in the first period.
It looked like it was going to be a long afternoon in St. Louis for the Blues and their fans. Fans that resorted to boos as the Blues were floundering on the Powerplay.
Heading into the locker room embarrassed by their start they only found themselves down by 2.