OTTAWA – Joel Hofer made 41 saves and the St. Louis Blues held off a late rally from the Ottawa Senators to take a 2-1 win Saturday.<\/p>\n
Jake Neighbours scored twice for the Blues (10-12-7), including the eventual game winner just 12 seconds into the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He tipped a Pavel Buchnevich pass by Ottawa goalie Linus Ullmark, who made 18 saves in the loss.<\/p>\n
The Senators (13-11-4) solved Hofer on their seventh power play of the game. Fabian Zetterlund managed to jam home a loose puck and halve the deficit with 4:21 remaining.<\/p>\n
With the Senators pressing for the equalizer, Ullmark was skating toward the bench when he made a diving save on a Robert Thomas shot.<\/p>\n
Neighbours was able to get his stick on a puck that flew into the air on a Brayden Schenn shot, and gave the visitors a 1-0 lead at 17:36 of the second period.<\/p>\n
The St. Louis Blues were short-handed for much of the first period and outshot 15-2, but managed to hold off the Senators thanks to some solid play by Hofer, including a stellar save on David Perron late in the period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ottawa was unable to solve Hofer during four power-play chances in the \u00a0period.<\/p>\n
The Senators were without Shane Pinto, who was placed on injury reserve Friday and will be out a minimum of two weeks. Hayden Hodson was recalled from the American Hockey League\u2019s Belleville Senators.<\/p>\n
The Blues lost Jordan Kyrou early in the first. Philip Broberg took a shot to the knee early in the third and needed help off the ice.<\/p>\n
With the win, the Blues swept the season series after a 4-3 win over the Senators on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n
Takeaways\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senators: Power play went 1-for-7.<\/p>\n
Blues: The Blues didn\u2019t generate a lot early on but capitalized on their opportunities.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Oskar Sundqvist played his 400th game as a member of the Blues.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
In the first period, the Blues killed off a double-minor to Robert Thomas for high sticking Brady Tkachuk. Hofer made four saves during it.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Senators: Host the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blues: Visit the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 6, 2025.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA – Joel Hofer made 41 saves and the St. Louis Blues held off a late rally from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[5,6,10080,1352,1832,285,1365,33859,1364,1355,1357,4,60,25,1354,43,84,14,104,718,1356],"class_list":{"0":"post-342471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-ice-hockey","11":"tag-ice-hockey-in-st-louis","12":"tag-ice-hockey-leagues","13":"tag-ice-hockey-players","14":"tag-national-hockey-league","15":"tag-national-hockey-league-draft-picks","16":"tag-national-hockey-league-drafts","17":"tag-national-hockey-league-players","18":"tag-national-hockey-league-teams","19":"tag-national-hockey-league-trophies-and-awards","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-playoffs","22":"tag-ottawa-senators","23":"tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-st-louis-blues","26":"tag-stanley-cup","27":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","28":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl","29":"tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}