In St Louis, Brandon Saad scored at 2:09 of extra time on Monday night to give the Blues a 3-2 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers. 
“A really lucky bounce actually,” Saad said. “I thought I was backchecking there, kind of hit their [defenseman’s] top of his stick and got a good break.”
Jordan Binnington made 36 saves in the win.
“Definitely a good response, right, going up against a good team there,” Binnington said. “I think we’ve been playing pretty good hockey as of late. Obviously that last game was frustrating. We know that and it was a good response by the group.”
The Blues moved to 40-31-4 to crawl to within three points of the Los Angles Kings for the second wild card spot in the Western Conference.
The Kings lost to the Winnipeg Jets, 4-3, in regulation on Monday.
The Oilers took a 1-0 lead at 7:09 of the first period on a marker from Mattias Ekholm.
The lead held up into the middle frame.
At 8:15 of the second, Brayden Schenn hit for the first of his double to tie the game1 1-1, for the Blues.
The Oilers dropped to 45-23-5, snapping a three-game winning streak.
“I think in the second period it was just how many penalties we had,” Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said. “That just took away our ability to build something. After we got the kills done and we were able to play 5-on-5 in the third period, I thought we did a pretty good job.”
Schenn collected his double at 1:44 of the third to give the Blues a 2-1 lead.
“I don’t know if it jumped over the (defenseman’s) stick, but [Kasperi Kapanen] made a great play,” Schenn said. “A play like that, I see him looking at me. Kind of he stepped over the blue line, he just kind of opened up. I actually didn’t get all of it, but luckily it went in.”
The Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl forced the extra session when he scored at 14:35 of the third period, scoring off a pass from . Connor McDavid .
“After penalties having two superstars sitting on the bench and after we have a kill, we want to get those guys out there immediately,” Knoblouch said. “They came up big tonight. The play Connor made coming up that wall was incredible and obviously Leon’s shot.”
Stuart Skinner made 26 saves in the loss.
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