Schenn scores in OT to lift Blues in shutout of Predators

ST. LOUIS -- Brayden Schenn scored at 2:23 of overtime to give the St. Louis Blues a 1-0 win against the Nashville Predators at Enterprise Center on Monday.

Schenn followed up a rebound after Nashville goalie Juuse Saros made an initial save of Jordan Kyrou's shot. Schenn had skated into the zone with speed after taking a pass from defenseman Torey Krug, dropped a pass to Kyrou before the shot and scored off Saros' blocker.
"He was driving the net there, and luckily enough it bounced on his stick and he tapped it in," Kyrou said. "It's a good ending."

Jordan Binnington made 25 saves and earned his 100th NHL win for the Blues (13-15-1), who won for only the second time in eight games (2-5-1). St. Louis played the second of a back to back after losing 3-2 in overtime against the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.
"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."
Saros made 23 saves for the Predators (12-11-3), who lost their third straight (0-2-1). Nashville hosts the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday.
"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."
Before the goal developed, Schenn had broken his stick after receiving a pass from Kyrou in his zone. He immediately tried to make the bench aware he had a broken stick, and Binnington came out to play the puck so Schenn wouldn't play it with a broken stick and risk a minor penalty.
Schenn got a new stick after assistant coach Steve Ott yelled from the bench.
"He's trying to let everybody know, but I couldn't hear him," Berube said of Schenn, who lost his voice during the game. "We saw that his stick was broke. [Ott] yells a lot louder than I do."
Each penalty kill unit held the game scoreless through two periods. St. Louis was 4-for-4 on the kill, and the Predators were 3-for-3.

The Blues came into the game last in the NHL on the penalty kill at 65.6 percent, and Nashville coach John Hynes was disappointed the Predators didn't take advantage of their opportunities.
"I thought the power play had some chances, but it's got to be more threatening," 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."
Binnington was down for a moment late in the third period after taking Ekholm's shot off his upper body but stayed in the game after being evaluated.
Binnington started on back-to-back days after making 28 saves Sunday.
"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."
NOTES: Predators defensemen Kevin Gravel and Roland McKeown were recalled from Milwaukee of the American Hockey League and replaced Alexandre Carrier and Jeremy Lauzon, who each has an upper-body injury. Gravel, playing for the first time since 2020 with the Toronto Maple Leafs, finished with 14:39 of ice time. McKeown, playing for the first time since 2018 with the Carolina Hurricanes, finished with 12:21. ... Kyrou has nine points (four goals, five assists) over the past eight games. ... Binnington's 100 wins in 184 regular-season games is the third-fastest in Blues history behind Jake Allen (176) and Brian Elliott (175).