Sharks hold off the Blues, 6-5

Even as the San Jose Sharks built a four-goal lead, Coach Ron Wilson never felt comfortable.

“It was almost too easy,” Wilson said after the Sharks held on Tuesday night for a 6-5 victory over the Blues at St. Louis. “I kept saying to the team, ‘You got to put these guys away. They won’t go away.’ ”

The Blues did rally, scoring twice in the third period to cut the Sharks’ lead to one. But San Jose, powered by a goal and three assists from Joe Thornton and Jonathan Cheechoo, held on.

In other games:

Daymond Langkow scored twice to help lift Calgary to a 4-1 victory over visiting Atlanta .... Brandon Bochenski and Marco Sturm scored power-play goals 62 seconds apart in the first period and host Boston stopped Edmonton, 3-0.... Brad Richards scored a tiebreaking power-play goal early in the third period and Tampa Bay defeated visiting Phoenix, 5-3.... Ed Belfour made 29 saves and Jay Bouwmeester scored to help Florida beat host Montreal, 1-0.... Viktor Kozlov and Frans Nielsen scored in the shootout to lead the visiting New York Islanders past Toronto, 3-2.