The St. Louis Blues hope a rousing win and a long homestand can provide a boost to a team that's been struggling as of late. The club will attempt to build off its encouraging last performance in tonight's clash with the Nashville Predators from the Scottrade Center.

St. Louis was mired in a five-game losing streak and had dropped 10 of 13 tests since returning from a season-opening visit to Sweden prior to Tuesday's matchup with visiting Vancouver. The Blues managed to break out in a big way, routing the Canucks by a 6-1 count behind David Perron's first career hat trick.

Brad Boyes scored once and delivered three assists for St. Louis, which erupted for four unanswered goals in the first period and held a commanding 5-0 advantage after two frames. Andy McDonald also lit the lamp in addition to producing a pair of helpers to back a 22-save effort from goaltender Chris Mason.

"We've been playing some pretty good hockey, and tonight we found ways to score goals," Blues head coach Andy Murray remarked.

Tuesday's triumph kicked off a stretch of six consecutive home games for St. Louis, which has gone just 3-5-1 at the Scottrade Center so far this season and hasn't recorded back-to-back wins since its two-game sweep of rival Detroit in Stockholm from October 2-3.

The Predators will be wrapping up a four-game road trip this evening and have posted a 1-2-0 mark on the trek to date. Nashville was dealt a hard-fought loss by a powerful San Jose squad on Tuesday, with the Sharks' Dan Boyle scoring with one minute remaining in regulation to lift his team to a 4-3 decision.

Nashville hung tough with the reigning President's Trophy recipients and took a 3-2 lead on Patric Hornqvist's goal midway through the third period. San Jose's Devin Setoguchi tied the game with 6:34 left to play, and Boyle shot a wrister that trickled past Preds goaltender Dan Ellis with time winding down to account for the final margin.

"With a minute to go you want to get a point out of the game, that's probably most disappointing," said Nashville head coach Barry Trotz. "Our overall game, I thought we played maybe the best team in the NHL pretty well in their own barn. This hasn't been a kind place to us over the years and I thought we handled it pretty well tonight."

Ellis finished with 25 saves for Nashville, which also received goals from Marcel Goc and Michael Santorelli on the evening.

The offensively-challenged Predators could get one of their top snipers back for tonight's tilt. Forward J.P. Dumont, who has amassed a team-best 11 points in just nine games played this season, is a possibility to return from an upper body injury that has kept him out of the lineup for three straight outings.

Nashville has scored only 33 goals thus far in 2009-10, with only Carolina having generated a lower total this season.

These two Central Division foes will be meeting for the first time this season. The Blues went 4-0-2 against Nashville in 2008-09 and won two of the three encounters between the teams held in St. Louis.