Blues come back for OT win vs. Detroit, extend streak to 10

The Jimmy Snuggerud Era begins

Blues beat reporter Matthew DeFranks joined columnist Jeff Gordon to discuss the team’s addition of prospect Jimmy Snuggerud and the ongoing playoff push.

The Blues extended their win streak to 10 games with a 2-1 overtime win over the Red Wings on Tuesday night at Enterprise Center.

Cam Fowler scored the game-winning goal with 1:33 remaining in overtime for the Blues.

J.T. Compher scored 5:13 into the third period to give Detroit a 1-0 lead, but Jordan Kyrou’s goal with 27.9 seconds remaining in regulation sent the game into overtime.

Cam Talbot stopped the first 35 Blues shots, but Kyrou’s with the extra attacker slipped through his legs and secured at least one point for each team.

In the third period, with the Blues pushing to tie the game, Talbot’s glove save on Ryan Suter’s rebound preserved a 1-0 lead for the Red Wings. Moments earlier, he stopped Nathan Walker on a shorthanded 2 on 1 rush.

The win moved the Blues past the idle Wild for the first wild card position in the Western Conference. Minnesota has one game in hand on St. Louis. Calgary (82 points) was at Utah (78 points) on Tuesday night, while Vancouver (81 points) did not play.

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Tuesday was the Blues’ 20th game since the 4 Nations break, and they have lost just twice in regulation in that time.

The Blues power play was 0 for 3, just the third time since Christmas that St. Louis was scoreless with at least three power-play opportunities.

St. Louis hosts Pittsburgh on Thursday night before closing out its homestand with Colorado on Saturday.

Physical start

The Blues had 18 hits in the first period, which put them on pace to finish with 54 hits across all three periods. That would have been the most in the season for the Blues, and the fourth-most among all NHL teams. Dylan Holloway led the Blues with four hits in the period.

Pavel Buchnevich had the team’s best chance in the first period, trying to finish a 3 on 1 rush after Jake Neighbours slid a pass across the slot. But Cam Talbot went right to left to make a snazzy glove save on Buchnevich, who was playing his second game after a four-game absence.

The Red Wings hit two posts in the first period.

First, just 2:45 into the period, Lucas Raymond rang the post from distance after the puck took an odd hop off the camera hole in the glass. Then, about midway through the period, Dylan Larkin backhand from six feet away evaded an outstretched Jordan Binnington, but could not avoid the post.

The Blues went 0 for 2 on the power play in the first period, putting two shots on goal during the man-advantage.

Scrambling to save

The Blues prevented a pair of would-be Red Wings goals in the second period with active sticks in their own crease. In the first minute of the period, Nick Leddy saved a goal by stopping Marco Kasper on the doorstep from putting the puck into a vacant net after Binnington turned the puck over playing it.

About six minutes into the period, the Blues survived a goal-mouth scramble thanks to a left pad save by Binnington before every skater on the ice was in his crease, either trying to cover the puck and get a stoppage, or find the back of the net.

Talbot himself made some key saves in the period, notably on Radek Faksa’s tip on goal and Alexey Toropchenko’s attempt on the rebound.

The Blues held the Red Wings to just three shots on goal at 5 on 5 in each of the first period periods. Through 40 minutes, Detroit had 12 shots on goal, and half of them came on their two second-period power plays.

The 0-0 score through two periods marked the first time since Oct. 17 vs. the Islanders (the fifth game of the season for St. Louis) that there were not any goals in the opening 40 minutes of a game.

Photos: Blues push win streak to 10 in overtime, Jimmy Snuggerud makes his NHL debut

Blues players celebrate forward Jordan Kyrou scoring a goal with 27 seconds left in the third period, tying the game 1-1, during the St. Louis Blues vs Detroit Red Wings game at Enterprise Center on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.