by BY JEREMY RUTHERFORD ¿ jrutherford@post-dispatch.com , St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The club's losing streak reached a season-high four games (0-2-2), but the Blues said they had more to build off after Saturday's defeat.

The Flyers, who entered the game leading the NHL with 3.77 goals per game this season, had netted 17 goals in their last three games. On Saturday, they got only a power-play goal from Scott Hartnell in regulation, and were held under two goals in regulation for only the second time in 14 games this season.

"I think we've been a different team in the last two games," Blues center Jay McClement said. "We need to look at the level we set in the last couple of games and make sure we bring that every night. If we keep playing like that, we're going to get chances and win some more games. We've got to find a way to score some goals. But after a rough three games, we definitely took a step in the right direction."

The Blues have not scored a goal in the first or second period of their past four games. They trailed Philadelphia 1-0 entering the third Saturday.

In a game that kicked off with a fight between Cam Janssen and Arron Asham, the Blues outhit the Flyers 12-10 and had one fewer shot on goal (20-19) through two periods.

Philadelphia came into the game with the NHL's best power play, at 28.6 percent. The Blues' penalty-kill unit, which climbed up to 12th in the league recently, negated the first three penalties Saturday against the Flyers.

In the middle of the second period, Janssen was whistled for goaltender interference, putting Philly on its fourth power play.

The Flyers' Claude Giroux skated down the right boards and zinged a pass cross-ice, slicing through defenseman Eric Brewer and then by Darryl Sydor. Hartnell was crashing the net hard, and as he began to come up, the puck went off his skate and past goalie Chris Mason.

"I played with Scottie Hartnell (in Nashville) and you know he's coming hard to the net," Blues goalie Chris Mason said.

Going aggressively into the corner in the offensive zone, T.J. Oshie clipped Philadelphia goalie Ole-Kristian Tollefsen, sending him into the boards hard. As Tollefsen lay on the ice, Oshie went to the front of the net, and after a point shot by teammate Roman Polak, Oshie spun and wrapped the rebound past goalie Ray Emery. "Nothing was going very well offensively," Oshie said. "I was just trying to go hard, play gritty and then go to the net ... get a cheap one, which I guess that was. But it definitely felt good to put it in the net."

Oshie's second goal of the season tied the score 1-1 with 14:17 left in the third period.

The Blues had to kill off one more Philadelphia power play before the game eventually went into overtime.

In overtime, Mason made his biggest save of the game, stopping Hartnell on a breakaway.

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