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Sharp-eyed Lewis helped on shootout

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Assists aren’t awarded on shootout goals, of course, but if they were, Trevor Lewis would get one. Seated on the bench last night, before the shootout, Lewis chatted with a couple players and noted that St. Louis goalie Brian Elliott had displayed a tendency to “open up,’’ leaving the five-hole as a potential area to exploit. Mike Richards beat Elliott five-hole and then, in the fourth round, Jeff Carter did the same. Today, Carter said he and Richards hadn’t strategized together, but that Lewis said Elliott “had a pretty wide stance and there was some room there.’’ Lewis talked about the on-bench chatter…

LEWIS: “We were talking about how wide Elliott was, and if you open him up five-hole, it was open. … Carts kind of called it before. He said, `I think he’s [Richards] going to open him up and go five-hole.’ Because I was saying how wide Elliott came out. I didn’t think Carts was going to do it, but he did it.’’

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