Brent Sutter elected to sit 16 rows up in the stands to watch Flame practice on Monday in St. Louis feeling a bit blue from the lingering affects of the flu and his team’s 2-game losing streak.

  On the ice, under the bright lights, all of Sutter’s players on the trip, save goalie Miikka Kiprusoff, worked out under guidance of the assistant coaches for about 30 minutes sans the “bag skate” some had suggested might occur.

  After facing 81 shots in two weekend games, Kiprusoff relished the break but agreed the team must tighten up defensively. “We’ve been working on things but the last couple of games got away from the plan.”

  All hands vow they’ll get back to the “program” Tuesday against the Blues in a building where the Flames have won their last 4 games.  As well, the Blues have struggled in recent games in their own arena having lost 4-straight.

  Its kind of ironic that on an evening the greatest goal scorer in Blues history, Brett Hull, is being honored the competing teams have struggled to score lately.

  St. Louis in recognizing Hull’s recent induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame with ceremonies prior to Tuesday’s game.

  The Blues may want to put Hull into their line-up despite the fact he’s been retired for 3 years. Hull scored 741 regular-season goals plus another 103 in the playoffs where he played on 2 Stanley Cup winners.

  The Blues have scored just 5 goals in their last 4 games.

  The Flames have gone into a scoring slow-down as well with just 5 goals in their last 4 games — 3 of them losses.  The Flames all-time leading scorer, Jarome Iginla, is in his longest goal scoring slump of the season — goalless in 6 games.

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