Blues fend off Golden Knights’ late comeback attempt to nab shootout win
Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn scored during a shootout to lift the St. Louis Blues past the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 on Monday.
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LAS VEGAS — Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn scored during a shootout to lift the St. Louis Blues past the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 on Monday.
St. Louis, which has a 12-8-8 record against the Golden Knights, improved to 4-1-1 in its last six games played in Vegas.
Schenn, Neighbours, Nathan Walker and Cam Fowler scored for the Blues in regulation. Jordan Binnington made 28 saves.
St. Louis inched closer in the Western Conference playoff race and is now tied with Vancouver, both with 50 points and one point shy of Calgary for the second wild-card spot.
Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev scored for Vegas inside the final four minutes to tie the game and force overtime, the latter with an extra attacker on the ice and 30 seconds left in regulation.
Tomas Hertl and Brett Howden each added a goal while Shea Theodore had four assists for the Golden Knights. Adin Hill stopped 24 shots.
Vegas lost for the sixth time in seven games, but moved one point ahead of Edmonton in the Pacific Division.
Takeaways
Blues: Since Dec. 23, the Blues have scored an NHL-best 51 goals and average a league-high 3.92 goals per game.
Golden Knights: Hertl, who scored his ninth power-play goal of the season, has 10 points (5 goals, 5 assists) the last six games.
Key moment
With an extra attacker, the Golden Knights worked the puck around the offensive zone to perfection, with Theodore finding Dorofeyev, who fired the game-tying goal past Binnington to tie the game at 4-all.
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Key stat
Nine of the 15 games the Knights have hosted St. Louis have gone to overtime, including three shootouts. The Golden Knights had won six of the first eight that went past regulation before Monday’s loss.
Up next
The teams meet again and conclude a home-and-home series in St. Louis on Thursday.
