In St Louis, it took nearly 63 minutes to get a goal out of either the Blues or visiting Nashville Predators. 
But it finally happened at 2:23 of extra time on Monday when Brayden Schenn hit for the game-winner for the Blues.
“He was driving the net there, and luckily enough it bounced on his stick and he tapped it in,” St Louis’ Jordan Kyrou said. “It’s a good ending.”
Jordan Binnington made 25 saves in the Blues victory, it was his 100th career NHL game.
“Tough game,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “It’s a heavy game, we knew that. It’s always a heavy game with them. They’re a big team. It was a good hockey game, battled, competed, heavy game all around.”
St Louis improved to 13-15-1.
“Too bad we couldn’t win, but I think we could build something from that game,” Saros said. “It was pretty tight, even the whole game.”
St Louis was scoreless in three power play chances, Nashville was held off the board on four power play opportunities.
“I thought the power play had some chances, but it’s got to be more threatening,” Preds coach John Hynes said. “But I thought the one unit, [Mattias] Ekholm’s unit, really had some good looks. I thought [Roman] Josi’s unit, he had some good looks himself, but for the amount of power-play time we had, and those guys on the ice, it’s got to be way more threatening than it was tonight.”
The Blues are 2-5-1 in their last eight.
“I thought he was solid in the game against Colorado and we talked to him, he felt good, so I just went with him,” Berube said. “He felt good and he felt good the next day, so that was the decision that we made.”
Juuse Saros made 33 saves in the Nashville loss.
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