Kyrou’s backhand shot beat Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov<\/a> had a chance to extend the shootout but was stopped by Joel Hofer<\/a>, who made 34 saves in regulation and overtime before delivering three more in the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n It was the Blues’ first win in overtime or a shootout this season. They had been 0-8.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks The Blues took a 2-0 lead late in the first period with goals just 30 seconds apart.<\/p>\n Jake Neighbors<\/a> scored the first one with 2:57 to play in the period, and Nick Bjugstad<\/a> added another when he was left alone in the slot with 2:27 left.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay tied it with a pair of power-play goals 62 seconds apart in the second.<\/p>\n Kucherov scored at 9:59 when the Lightning had a two-man advantage. He then assisted on Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/a>‘s goal 1:02 later. Darren Raddysh<\/a> assisted on both goals.<\/p>\n Vasilevskiy made 19 saves.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay was seeking a team-record 12th consecutive win. The Lightning had not lost since a 2-1 setback to Los Angeles on Dec. 18. The last time they won 11 in a row was from Jan. 29 to Feb. 17, 2020. They went on to win the Stanley Cup that season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 16, 2026, 11:58 PM ET ST. LOUIS — Jordan Kyrou scored the only goal in a shootout,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-418618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/r1566851_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n