ST. LOUIS — Robert Thomas’ return. Dalibor Dvorsky’s first NHL goal. Philip Broberg’s enthusiasm to defend Connor McDavid. Jordan Binnington’s competitive spirit. And Pius Suter’s knack for scoring goals from where he got the game-winner Monday.

It added up to a thrilling, 3-2, come-from-behind victory for the St. Louis Blues over the Edmonton Oilers, and, finally, an end to the team’s seven-game losing streak (0-5-2).

“We needed it,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery said afterward.

The club had played better of late — 140 shots directed at the net in back-to-back losses to Vancouver and Columbus — but “progress” isn’t a term that any Blues fans wanted to hear.

They hadn’t won in nearly three weeks, dating back to a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Oct. 18.

Edmonton was in town, looking to stretch the Blues’ losing streak to eight games, which would’ve matched the franchise-high set during the 2022-23 season. And the Oilers seemed to be on their way, holding a 2-0 lead late in the second period.

But as mentioned, Thomas was back. He missed four games with an upper-body injury and said Monday morning that he could feel the vibe around the team getting better when he was out and couldn’t wait to get back on the ice and help.

In a span of 1 minute, 30 seconds, Thomas did that. He had an assist on Dvorsky’s power-play goal and then scored himself to tie the score, 2-2, late in the second period.

“These guys have been building a big foundation for our team in being more consistent, getting back to the basics,” Thomas said. “For me to jump in the lineup and the guys to have that mentality, it wasn’t too hard for me.”

On the Blues’ first goal, Thomas made a pass to teammate Justin Faulk, who fed it to Dvorsky for the power-play strike that made it 2-1.

In his fifth NHL game, the 20-year-old rookie center had not only the first goal of his career, but his first point. And it was a beauty of a shot from the face-off dot.

Congratulations Dalibor Dvorsky on your first career NHL goal. Many more to come. #stlblues pic.twitter.com/QqXd3cOk4J

— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) November 4, 2025

“A great job by the kid cranking it home,” Montgomery said. “I mean, you get your first goal, that’s one you want to talk about. ‘It went bar down on a one-timer.’ Pretty cool.”

When asked about how the goal, and the moment, matched up to what Dvorsky had envisioned his whole life, he opted for some honesty.

“I wouldn’t care if I kicked the puck in or shoot it — the first goal is the first goal,” he said. “Yeah, I’m happy it went in that way, but I mean, whatever. The first goal, it doesn’t matter how I score it.”

What mattered is that Dvorsky did score it.

The Blues were on the verge of trailing 2-0 heading into the third period, and they are 0-6-1 this season when down heading into the final frame.

“That’s a massive goal for us,” Thomas said. “You see the way we just kept on rolling after that goal. That was a wicked shot. Definitely should get a lot of credit for really changing the tide of the game.”

After the Blues got Dvorky’s first goal of his career, they got Thomas’ second of the season.

Rookie Jimmy Snuggerud continues to show off his passing skills, and this time he set up Broberg for a one-timer. That shot went off the end boards and onto the stick of Thomas, who pin-balled the puck in off Edmonton goalie Calvin Pickard, and it was 2-2.

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— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) November 4, 2025

At that point in the game, McDavid already had two assists, but he would finish the night with no shots on goal — just the 28th time in the 700-plus games in his career that that’s happened.

In the 11:37 of 5-on-5 ice time the line of McDavid, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Andrew Mangiapane spent against Broberg and defensive partner Colton Parayko, the Oilers had eight scoring chances against and one goal, which belonged to Mangiapane.

That’s a win in the Blues’ book, and afterward there was credit handed to both Broberg and Parayko, along with the forward line of Thomas, Snuggerud and Pavel Buchnevich, which had the difficult assignment.

“I thought that we were very aware when he was on the ice,” Montgomery said of McDavid. “We didn’t really shut him down — he had two assists. He’s kind of like Michael Jordan where you keep him under 30 (points), and you’re happy. But that’s what generational players do. I thought we were able to negate his speed at our blue line by our up-ice awareness of marking him up.”

Montgomery then recalled a meeting earlier in the day in which Broberg, the former Oiler, expressed some excitement in facing his former teammate, McDavid.

“We showed a lot of clips obviously of him and (Leon) Draisaitl,” Montgomery said. “We have an acronym of ‘MDM,’ most dangerous man. I added a ‘W’ for McDavid because he’s the most dangerous man in the world in our sport. And when I said it, I looked up and ‘Broby’ was really intense, like looking forward to the challenge intense, which is what you want from your players.”

The Blues got to that point of the game because of Binnington, who made everyone forget about their goaltending problems for a night. He was brilliant, making 24 of 26 saves to keep the team in the game when it was down, 2-0, and even when it was tied, 2-2.

“Those two saves after it went 2-0 were huge,” Montgomery said. “It really elevated our bench. I remember someone saying, ‘Binner is fighting for us.’ That’s what he does. He gives you the confidence that you’re never out of the game because of the competitive spirit he has in the crease.”

With under two minutes remaining in regulation, after the Blues had been staring at yet another loss, Suter scored his fifth goal of the season to put them ahead for good. It came on a point shot by Parayko that created a rebound for Suter.

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— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) November 4, 2025

“He knows where he scores goals — from the hashmarks down to the goal line,” Montgomery said. “He finds his way there, and he has impeccable timing. When you’re his size, you can’t plant yourself in front of the net like Jake Neighbours or Alexey Toropchenko. You have to get there when the puck is arriving, and that’s what happened on the game-winning goal. It was a real good shift by that line, and they got the game-winning goal, which was huge for us.”

It’s just one win, but as Montgomery mentioned, they needed it.

“We got the two points and kind of kick-start this thing,” Suter said. “It’s good for the confidence for everybody.”