OTTAWA, Ontario — The Blues completed a season sweep of the Senators with a 2-1 win in Ottawa on Saturday night.

Jake Neighbours scored two goals and Joel Hofer made 41 saves as the Blues snapped a two-game skid. The St. Louis penalty kill went 6 for 7, including negating four Ottawa power plays in the first period alone.

The Blues killed the first six Ottawa power plays of the game, but Fabian Zetterlund scored with 4:21 left in the third period to spoil Hofer's shutout bid.

Robert Thomas nearly iced the game in the final two minutes but Linus Ullmark made a diving save at the hashmarks after making his initial trek to the Senators bench for the extra attacker. Thomas, Oskar Sundqvist and Hofer missed full-ice attempts at the net as the Blues hung on for the victory.

The Blues finish their trip on Sunday in Montreal.

Kyrou injured

Blues forward Jordan Kyrou left the game in the first period after suffering a lower-body injury just 2:52 into the game following an awkward collision with Stephen Halliday inside the blue line. Halliday got tangled up with Kyrou's leg before Kyrou tumbled to the ice and received attention from Blues head trainer Ray Barile.

Kyrou had just two shifts across 53 seconds before he was forced to leave the game.

Without Kyrou, Pius Suter took his spot on the power play, which ultimately helped lead to Neighbours' second-period goal just after a Blues power play expired.

As Claude Giroux's hooking penalty wound down, Dylan Holloway lost an edge in the left circle but was able to fling a puck through Nikolas Matinpalo's legs, where Suter quickly recovered it and flipped a pass to Brayden Schenn on the opposite post. Schenn's rebound bounced high in the air above the crease, and Neighbours crashed the net hard enough to deflect it into the net.

The goal gave the Blues a 1-0 lead with 2:24 remaining in the second period, and was Neighbours' first goal since returning from a right leg injury that forced him to miss 12 games.

Neighbours needed just 12 seconds in the third period to net his second goal of the evening. Robert Thomas won the opening faceoff at center ice, allowing Cam Fowler to dump the puck into the corner.

Neighbours pressured Jake Sanderson to rim the puck to a waiting Pavel Buchnevich, who stopped the puck with one arm, then rifled a puck to the back door for Neighbours to redirect.

It was Neighbours' eighth goal of the season, which tied him for the team lead.

Hanging in there

The Blues survived a first period in which the Senators outshot them 15-2.

Neighbours had the first shot of the period 25 seconds into the game on a 2 on 1 rush with Pavel Buchnevich. Philip Broberg had the last shot of the period with two seconds in the period.

Between the shots, the Blues were held without a shot for 19:33 as the Senators had 15 consecutive shots. Penalties had a large part in that, of course.

The Blues had to kill four penalties in the first period alone — Robert Thomas' double-minor for high-sticking and Neighbours penalties for interference and tripping. The Senators generated six shots on goal in their eight minutes with a man-advantage and Hofer stopped them all.

Hofer starred early on, stopping Hayden Hodgson's shot in tight and stoning Michael Amadio on a rush chance. In the second period, Hofer denied Giroux in transition, and he received help from the crossbar late in the second period on Tim Stutzle's shot that caromed off the iron.

Broberg goes down (temporarily)

Broberg left the game temporarily 2:53 into the third period after taking a puck off the inside of his right knee. He needed help skating off the ice and limped slowly down the Blues tunnel, but returned to the bench just four minutes after he was initially hurt.

He was back on the ice at 5:58 of the third period, skating in his normal role alongside Colton Parayko on the top defensive pairing.

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