{"id":406845,"date":"2026-01-14T08:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/406845\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:33:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:33:34","slug":"blues-snap-3-game-skid-with-3-0-win-over-hurricanes-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/406845\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues snap 3-game skid with 3-0 win over Hurricanes | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Joel Hofer made 33 saves as the St. Louis Blues snapped a three-game losing streak by shutting out the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Bjugstad, Dalibor Dvorsky and Jimmy Snuggerud scored for the Blues. Hofer notched his fourth shutout of the season and first since Dec. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Bussi made 28 saves for the Hurricanes. It was only the third regulation loss <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/carolina-hurricanes-brandon-bussi-79bdae277e281b8f13f063a83e700861\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for Bussi<\/a> in 20 career games (16-3-1).<\/p>\n<p>Carolina was shutout for the first time this season and had its five-game points streak come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues took control with three second-period goals.<\/p>\n<p>Bjugstad\u2019s shorthanded tally for the Blues at the 3:09 mark broke the scoreless tie. It was the first goal since Nov. 6 for Bjugstad, who returned against Carolina after missing the last 15 games with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Dvorsky made it 2-0 Blues at the 9:45 mark. Jake Neighbours got the primary assist, running his points streak to four games.<\/p>\n<p>Snuggerud added to the St. Louis lead with a power-play goal with 7:11 left. It was the second time this season that the Blues had both a shorthanded and a power-play goal in the same game.<\/p>\n<p>Hofer was strong throughout, stopping all nine shots he faced in the first period, gloving a one-timer from Jesperi Kotkaniemi in the second and getting in front of a flurry of Carolina chances early in the third.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues were without forward Robert Thomas (lower body) and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/blues-broberg-contract-69ec6b0fd5702f50b5b86adae2bb2265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Broberg<\/a> (concussion).<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>Hurricanes host Florida on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Blues host Tampa Bay on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Joel Hofer made 33 saves as the St. Louis Blues snapped a three-game losing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,51253,4,292,43,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":["post-406845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-blues","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes-blues-score","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-sports","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115892532311282779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406845","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=406845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}