"They got a bounce on their first goal," Ruff said. "That's just puck luck, sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't."
Goligoski tied it 1-1 at 10:58 with his fourth goal of the postseason on a wrist shot from the edge of the left circle that beat Elliott top shelf to the far post.
"I thought we played pretty well," Goligoski said. "I think the early start you worry maybe getting into the game a little bit. We started good and I thought we played a pretty solid game."
Jaskin gave the Blues a 2-1 lead with his first goal of the playoffs at 10:31 of the second period. Lehtonen denied Jaskin's initial wrist shot from the slot, but Jaskin gathered the rebound at the near post and scored his first NHL playoff goal on a shot that traveled around the crossbar before popping back out.
"We had a pretty [good] shift," Jaskin said. "We had the puck for probably 30 seconds. I saw [Jay Bouwmeester] has the puck and he looked at me and tried to pass it through. [We got] a couple bounces, [Lehtonen made] a good save, I was trying to go higher, as high as I can, and ended up in there."
Jaskin last played April 7 against the Chicago Blackhawks.
"Jaskin had a great effort for about 20 seconds keeping the puck along the wall," Blues forward Scottie Upshall said. "Their guys could have got the puck out three or four times where he [Jaskin] just used his big body to get good position. It was a full-line effort. It was a great shift, a big goal for our team to go up 2-1. We used that to kind of catapult our positive vibes."