{"id":329539,"date":"2025-12-07T03:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329539\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:41:11","slug":"hofer-makes-41-saves-blues-hold-off-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329539\/","title":{"rendered":"Hofer makes 41 saves, Blues hold off Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hofer made 16 saves in the third period, including a point-blank stop on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tim-stutzle-8482116\" title=\"Tim Stutzle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Stutzle<\/a> with nine seconds remaining to preserve the lead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jake-neighbours-8482089\" title=\"Jake Neighbours\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Neighbours<\/a> scored twice for the Blues (10-12-7), who defeated the Senators for the second time in eight days (also 4-3 at Enterprise Center on Nov. 28).<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Zetterlund scored, and Linus Ullmark made 18 saves for the Senators (13-11-4), who have lost four of their past five games.<\/p>\n<p>Blues forward Jordan Kyrou left the game at 2:52 of the first period with a lower-body injury after taking a hit from Senators forward Stephen Halliday.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa outshot St. Louis 15-2 in the first. The Senators were 0-for-4 in on the power play in the period and 1-for-7 for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours gave the Blues a 1-0 lead at 17:36 of the second period, four seconds after a St. Louis power play expired. Brayden Schenn\u2019s one-timer hit the right post, but Neighbours batted the puck out of the air on a drive into the crease.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours scored his second goal of the game 12 seconds into the third to give St. Louis a 2-0 lead. He tapped in a centering pass from Pavel Buchnevich at the edge of the crease.<\/p>\n<p>Zetterlund cut it to 2-1 at 15:39, one-timing a quick pass from Halliday in the slow slot past a sprawling Hofer on the Senators\u2019 seventh power play of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark, who was headed off the ice for the extra attacker, dove back to make a desperation stick save on Robert Thomas with the net empty at 18:07.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hofer made 16 saves in the third period, including a point-blank stop on Tim Stutzle with nine seconds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-329539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}