Blues fall to Canucks in shootout as winless streak extends to six games

Tom Timmermann, St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Oct 30, 2025

Published in Hockey

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ST. LOUIS — The Blues snapped a four-game run without a point and a five-goal streak of allowing at least five goals but they couldn’t get the win, losing to Vancouver 4-3 in a shootout on Thursday night at Enterprise Center.

Vancouver’s Jack DeBrusk was the only scorer on the shootout, beating Jordan Binnington to give Vancouver a 1-0 win in the shootout. That made six games in a row without a win for the Blues.

The Blues got goals from Dylan Holloway, Jimmy Snuggerud and Pius Suter, and two-assist games from Cam Fowler and Oskar Sundqvist, which were offset by a hat trick by Vancouver’s Kiefer Sherwood, who has nine goals this season, five of them against the Blues.

Sherwood got his third goal and the hat trick on a fluky play. Aatu Raty took a shot from the right circle and broke his stick, leaving the puck behind him as his momentum carried him forward. Sherwood skated on to the loose puck and shot through two Blues and over the left shoulder of Jordan Binnington for the go-ahead goal with 12:56 to play in the third.

Less than two minutes later, the Blues got a power play and a power-play goal to tie the game. With time on the power play running out, Fowler took a shot from the point that found its way through a clutch of players to goalie Kevin Lankinen, who made the save but the puck came off to Suter, who had an open half of the net to put the puck into for his fourth goal of the season. It came with 11:07 to go in the third.

It looked like the Canucks had gone back ahead with 2:42 to go on a goal by Evander Kane, who put in a rebound of a shot by Pierre-Olivier Joseph. But the Blues challenged for goaltender interference, and after a long review by the officials, they agreed that Mackenzie MacEachern had bumped Binnington in the crease before Kane’s shot, which had impacted his ability to play Kane’s shot.

The game went to overtime, where neither team scored and Vancouver didn’t have a shot on goal while the Blues had two.

One for each in the second

The Blues started the second period with 63 seconds of power play and they needed almost all of it to turn it into a 2-1 lead.

With five seconds to go in the man advantage, Snuggerud fired in a shot from the right circle to finish off a play that started with Binnington dropping the puck off for Fowler, who made a cross-ice pass to Snuggerud at center ice and skated it in for the go-ahead goal. It was Snuggerud’s fourth goal of the season and Binnington’s eighth career assist.

That lead lasted until there was 9:18 to go in the period, when the Blues turned the puck over in the attacking zone and Sherwood had a breakaway, crossing over to his backhand to flick the puck in over Binnington for his eighth goal of the season.

Vancouver had another breakaway about three minutes later. Tyler Tucker’s stick broke, giving Max Sasson a direct line to the net but then his shot exploded as he shot, and the chance was lost.

The Blues got another late power play when Lankinen was called for tripping Brayden Schenn, but the Blues couldn’t do anything in those 62 seconds.

An even first period

The Blues took a 1-0 lead 3:23 into the game on a goal by Holloway, who had gone six games without a goal and it was just his second for the season. Sundqvist set him up nicely in the right faceoff circle and his shot slipped between the pads of Lankinen a split second before they closed.

Struggling defenseman Logan Mailloux was called for two penalties in the period, first for high sticking and the second for tripping and the second one cost the Blues. Binnington played a puck behind his net and tossed it into the corner for Justin Faulk, But Faulk wasn’t alone. Vancouver’s Kane was there and got the puck, and while Binnington scrambled back into his crease, Kane got the puck to Sherwood, and while Binnington had gotten back, Sherwood took a took a shot that hit the top of Binnington’s pad and caromed into the net to tie the game. Mailloux played one shift the final 6:52 of the period.

That hurts

Vancouver, which has had an inordinate amount of injuries early in the season, added another one just 33 seconds into the game. Defenseman Elias Pettersson, not to be confused with forward Elias Pettersson (or defensemen Marcus Pettersson), took a shot that hit right wing Brock Boeser somewhere in the middle of his body, immediately doubling him over on to the ice. He was helped off the ice, down the tunnel to the dressing room. He had 33 seconds of ice time in the game. With his injury, Vancouver has had nine skaters injured this season, six forwards and three defensemen. Because of all that, Vancouver called up ex-Blue MacEachern on Wednesday and he was in the lineup on Thursday.