Utah Hockey Club at Blues | Recap

ST. LOUIS -- Dylan Guenther scored the go-ahead goal with 3:21 remaining in the third period, and the Utah Hockey Club defeated the St. Louis Blues 4-2 at Enterprise Center on Thursday.

Guenther gave Utah a 3-2 lead at 16:39 after intercepting Jordan Kyrou’s pass in the offensive zone and scoring when his centering pass deflected off Blues defenseman Colton Parayko on a 2-on-1. Guenther was looking to pass the puck to Logan Cooley.

"Kind of a lucky bounce," said Guenther, who also had an assist. "[Parayko] made a good defensive read and sometimes you get rewarded like that."

Kyrou had gained the offensive zone going from left to right and tried to drop a pass back to Ryan Suter, but Guenther picked it off to create the 2-on-1.

"As a team, we have to recognize that we haven't played well for 55 minutes of the game, and we're in a 2-2 game and we just have to push that to overtime," St. Louis coach Drew Bannister said. "... It's just a bad bounce, but it shouldn't be in there at that point."

Buchnevich, Saad and Bannister after loss to Utah Hockey Club.

Jack McBain scored into an empty net with four seconds remaining for the 4-2 final.

Michael Kesselring and Matias Maccelli also scored for Utah (6-5-3), which had lost six of seven (1-4-2) and five straight on the road (0-3-2). Connor Ingram made 13 saves.

"We had a few good games in the past few, but we didn't get the points," Utah coach Andre Tourigny said. "It was important tonight to find a way to get the two points, especially when they tied it in the third. I think we bounced back."

Kyrou scored for the third straight game, Parayko also scored, and Pavel Buchnevich had two assists for the Blues (7-7-0), who had won two in a row. Joel Hofer made 27 saves.

"We were just a little sloppy with the puck," St. Louis forward Brandon Saad said. "They do a good job of clogging up the neutral zone, they've got a lot of speed and skill going the other way. I think we just got stubborn with it, didn't get pucks in deep."

Kesselring gave Utah a 1-0 lead 18 seconds into the first period when his breakaway attempt slid through Hofer's legs.

"[Clayton Keller] likes to make plays, that line likes to make plays," Kesselring said. "I kind of saw that he saw me, so I got on my horse a bit and he made a great pass. A little alley-oop and luckily it went in."

UTA@STL: Kesselring scores just 18 seconds into the game

Parayko tied it 1-1 at 18:41 on a wrist shot from the slot over Ingram's glove.

Maccelli put Utah back ahead 2-1 at 18:09 of the second period with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle.

Kyrou tied it 2-2 at 13:29 of the third period on a one-timer from the left circle after Buchevich stick-handled into the slot.

"He made a great play there, dangled two guys and set me up," Kyrou said of Buchnevich. "(But) I've just got to be more direct there (on the go-ahead goal in the third). Time of the game there, just got to put that deep."

NOTES: Blues forward Dylan Holloway played two days after being stretchered off in the first period of a 3-2 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning when he was hit with a puck on the right side of the neck. ... Kesselring scored the fastest game-opening goal in the NHL this season. … Suter played in his 1,458th regular-season game, passing Glen Wesley for 27th in NHL history.