ST. LOUIS — It’s only one win, but the St. Louis Blues’ 4-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Friday checked a lot of boxes.

They came from behind. They closed out a one-goal game. They won a home game.

And it was two top-six forwards whose offense has been down this season — one dramatically — who engineered the comeback.

The Blues were trailing the Senators 2-1 after the second period, and they were 0-8-1 in that situation this season. But they got three five-on-five goals in the third period, including one apiece from Jordan Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich, and fended off a six-on-five attack in the final few minutes to win their fourth game at Enterprise Center in 13 home appearances this season.

“We showed the most desperation of the year so far,” Blues coach Jim Montgomery said. “The third period is the best we’ve done it all year and that’s why we got three goals. We got three goals because we were desperate, and we didn’t give up a goal at the end because we were desperate defensively.”

It was the type of performance the Blues hope will spring them to back-to-back wins for just the second time this season when they host the Utah Mammoth at 7 p.m. Saturday at Enterprise Center.

“That’s the catalyst that we need to carry on if we want to get on a roll, and we’re going to get on a roll,” Montgomery said. “That’s the kind of game when you come from behind, your crowd is going nuts, you’ve got another game tomorrow night … it’s time for us to show the desperation and just keep building on this.”

The Blues were coming off a five-game, 10-day road trip in which they went 1-1-3, with three three-on-three overtime losses. They scored just two goals in each of the five games, including their 2-1 win over the New York Islanders.

They needed offense.

Through the first two periods on Friday, they had just one goal, and once again, it came from the fourth line. When Oskar Sundqvist scored on a bank shot after a nice play by Nathan Walker and Mathieu Joseph to set him up, it was the ninth five-on-five points of the season for both Sundqvist and Walker. To put that in perspective, it tied the two with Kyrou and Dylan Holloway for the most five-on-five points on the team.

“They are playing north, and they’re extremely connected,” Montgomery said of the fourth line. “They’re 15-20 feet apart from each other instead of being 85 feet apart from each other, hoping to put pucks through two people to get a breakaway.

“They’re coming, they’re slashing, they’re chipping it at the wall and they’ve got support. That goal they scored, they put a puck to the net, they got a strong-side drive and a weak-side drive and they end up putting it in from the goal line.”

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The Blues had scored the first goal for the ninth time in their last 10 games. But it wasn’t creating much momentum for them, as their record was just 3-2-5 in those 10 games.

True to form, particularly in the second period when they’d been outscored 34-19 this season going into Friday, they gave up two to Ottawa in the middle period for a 2-1 deficit.

But in the period, the Blues’ offense started rolling over lines, and it was the much-maligned leaders who grabbed the game.

Kyrou hadn’t scored in the last six games, but got on the board with his team-high seventh of the season.

Robert Thomas hit Jake Neighbours with a pass at the offensive blue line. Neighbours waited while Kyrou cut to the net on the opposite side of the ice, where he hit him for a pass. Kyrou went forehand-backhand and beat Sens goalie Leevi Meriläinen for a 2-2 tie just 2:01 into the period.

“It was just great patience by (Neighbours), kind of hold and wait for the lane to open up,” Kyrou said. “It was a helluva pass.”

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Then 2 1/2 minutes later, Buchnevich, the unlikeliest of contributors after the season he’s had, came up with the go-ahead goal.

This time, the Blues were on a two-on-one odd rush, and it was Schenn who made the dandy pass to Buchnevich, who put a quick wrist shot past Meriläinen.

“I know 100 percent he’s going to give it to me,” Buchnevich said. “He doesn’t look at the net. I know he’s going to make the pass. He made a helluva player and I got a lucky shot. It feels good. Especially right now, hard to score the goal.”

It was euphoria for Buchnevich and the Blues.

The goal was the winger’s first in 17 games, and while it was his third of the season, it was his first in more than 300 minutes at five-on-five this season.

“I guess I was too much into the game to realize that it was his first five-on-five goal,” Montgomery said. “I just know that he’s been playing the right way since we went on the road in Toronto, playing a much more hard offensive game. He’s been having a lot of opportunities and I’m happy one went in for him.”

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Sundqvist, jokingly, took credit for Buchnevich’s goal.

“I drove him (to the rink) today,” Sundqvist said. “I drove him to the rink twice last year and he scored both games. So I’m three for three driving him to the rink. I’ll see if I have to keep driving him to the games.”

“He always pick me up and I score,” Buchnevich said. “It’s all on him.”

As Sundqvist walked past Buchnevich in the locker room, he quipped: “I’m waiting for my Uber tip.”

Buchnevich replied: “He might be Uber for a while.”

The locker room was in a fun-loving mood Friday because after the team gave up the game-tying goal to former Blue David Perron, they got it back from Matthew Kessel.

This goal, too, was created by one of the Blues’ top-three lines. Jimmy Snuggerud started the sequence, and after shots by Holloway and Pius Suter created rebounds, the defenseman pumped in the loose puck.

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So Friday, all four lines had a hand in the offense.

“Well, it’s important that your guns (Kyrou and Buchnevich) get going and they feel good about themselves, for sure,” Montgomery said. “But it’s more the way we did it than who did it. When your team becomes selfless and it doesn’t matter who gets the credit — it’s about playing the right way and building the team game the right way — then everyone tends to get their share of the success.”

Led by Holloway with seven shots on goal, 14 of the Blues’ 18 skaters had at least one shot Friday, and 12 of the 18 had one point.

“I think we’ve had (the offense coming in waves) a couple of games, but not consistently enough,” Sundqvist said. “The third period was probably one of our best periods that we’ve had this season. So, it’s good to see the guys come together in the third and really turn this around tonight.”

Buchnevich was named the No. 1, and the sellout crowd of 19,096 was chanting his name after the game.

“I thank them for the support,” he said. “They support us so well. Even after a tough second period, they get us going and we get the W.”

They saw the Blues come up with a couple of key blocks in the closing minute to improve to 4-5-4 at home.

“It feels great to have a comeback win like that,” Kyrou said. “I don’t know that we’ve had too many of those this year. We want to try to do that more for them.”

It’ll take another night of desperation against Utah, which jumped the Blues for a 7-4 win on Oct. 23.

“Rinse, repeat, remember how you did it,” Montgomery said. “We’re going to show video on how we did it, and we’re going to go out and execute it with the effort and emotion that you need to have the desperation like that.”