The Blues have done many good things this season, but containing the Red Wings is not one of them.

Detroit blistered the Blues for four second-period goals and handed them a painful 5-2 setback before a sell-out crowd at Scottrade Center. The Red Wings just had too much speed and skill for the Blues. When the Note buckled, the Winged Wheel rolled right over them.

What else is news? The Red Wings have owned the Blues all season.

T.J. Oshie (deftly fed by Andy McDonald) and Jeff Woywitka (fed by Oshie) scored for the Blues. David Backes played his usual physical game and earned two secondary assists. But the Blues just couldn’t counter Detroit’s firepower.

Blues goaltender Chris Mason departed the game after that second period barrage. (He returned later in the period as coach Andy Murray played his Mike Keenan card.)

Mason have to regroup quickly, though, since the Blues host the Wild in an even more important Western Conference game Sunday. There is no time for a pity party, as former Rams coach Mike Martz would say.

Here are some impressions of the game:

• The Red Wings are dangerous every time they control the puck. Up and down this lineup, Detroit is scary good. A small example: Twice in the first period alone, a Red Wing on the attack passed the puck to himself — banking the puck off the side of the goal — while working around a Blues defenseman.
• But . . . Chris Osgood is really shaky in goal for Detroit, as the numbers indicate. In the first period, he got caught out of the net and had to dive back to deflect away Jay McClement’s shot from the right boards. He was lucky not to get burned on that play. From that point on, Blues fans serenaded him with the traditional “Os-good, Os-good” chant.
• Mason was steady early on, when the high-flying Wings got several pucks on goal or into the crease. Mason kept making the first stop, however, and his teammates stood strong and cleared the rebounds. A kid like Tyson Strachan, pressed into duty because of injuries, endured another trial by fire playing against world-class forwards.
• The Blues scored their first goal with an excellent shift by the Backes-McDonald-Oshie line. That group pinned the Red Wings in, cycled the puck and finally got the payoff. McDonald executed a tight spin move to the left of the goal and centered the puck to Oshie near the slot. T.J. settled the puck, loaded up the wrister and gave the Blues a 1-0 lead.
• Getting Alex Steen and Patrik Berglund for this game was huge. Matching Detroit’s skill is difficult, but the Blues come a lot closer with these two in the mix.
• The Blues kept lining up various Red Wings for big open-ice hits . . . and they kept missing. Pretty shifty bunch, these Red Wings.
• Then the Red Wings took a 3-1 lead with a bang-bang-bang sequence in the second period. Their first goal, scored by Pavel Datsyuk, came after a hideous shift. In the old days, the Blues would have just iced the puck to get their floundering players to the bench. You can’t do that in the new NHL, though, and the Note got burned on their line change after finally getting the puck out of their zone.
• The second goal, scored by Tomas Kopecky, came after the Blues failed to clear the puck against the supplemental scoring line of Kopecky, Valtteri Filippula and Jiri Hudler. This goal demonstrated Detroit’s awesome talent depth.
• Andy Murray called time out to settle his team, to no avail. Brett Lebda convered another ugly Blues turnover into an unassisted goal — on a shot that Mason no doubt wanted back. Barret Jackman added an undisciplined roughing penalty to the mess, but the Blues managed to survive that with a nice kill.
• The Blues returned fire with a nice rush, finished off by defenseman Wotwitka (!) jumping up on the right wing. Oshie made the nice cross-ice pass and Backes did his part by crashing the net with a Red Wing on his back. That cut the Detroit lead to 3-2.
• That goal steadied the Blues. The followed it with another good penalty kill, then an especially strong even-strength shift.
• Osgood made his best save of the game to rob McClement again. This time, Woywitka (!) pinched in along the right away, forced a turnover, walked out of the right corner with the puck and fed McClement at the left post. Sadly for the Blues, Osgood got over to stop him.
• Woywitka got stuck on the ice at the end of a last-minute shift, though, and the Red Wings exploited that for a 4-2 lead. Datsyuk got the goal, through Woywitka’s screen, after Woywitka failed to clear the puckand exit the ice.
• Murray was wise to life Mason for Our Town’s Ben Bishop for the third quarter. It gave his team a rallying point and the move should help Mason refocus for the Sunday against against Minnesota. The Blues came out flying at the start of the period, but the Red Wings know how to protect leads — even with Osgood in goal.
• Mason returned for a late-game stretch while the Blues were applying power-play pressure. At the end of the game, Osgood seemed more in command of his crease than earlier in the game.
• The Red Wings finished off the Blues with Henrik Zetterberg’s empty-net goal at 18:03. The Blues have to set this one aside and take out their frustrations on the Wild.