ST. LOUIS, Mo. — The St. Louis Blues snapped a three-game losing streak Tuesday night, Nov. 10, edging the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 at Enterprise Center, and goalie Joel Hofer did his heaviest work late, stopping 19 of his 30 shots in the third period.
The win moved the Blues to 8-8-2. They had gone 0-2-1 over their previous three games. Detroit fell to 7-9-3 with its fourth consecutive defeat, and the Red Wings have been outscored 13-5 across those four losses.
Detroit struck first when Andrew Copp scored with 13 seconds left in the first period, redirecting a wrist shot from Ben Chiarot after winning a face-off and feeding Lucas Raymond. St. Louis answered quickly after intermission. Pius Suter tied the game 37 seconds into the second period for his 100th career goal, also his 200th NHL point, and Justin Barron put the Blues ahead at 2:34 off a three-on-two rush started by Robert Thomas. His shot bounced in off Red Wings goalie John Gibson’s arm and skate.
Detroit thought it had tied the score on a power play with 11:23 left, but the on-ice call was no goal and a video review upheld it. Jimmy Snuggerud then widened the gap at 15:58, burying the rebound of a Dylan Holloway shot, to finish with a goal and an assist. Moritz Seider tallied his first of the year at 18:46, a one-timer from Raymond with Gibson on the bench for an extra attacker, but that was as close as the Red Wings got. Gibson made 30 saves in his return from a two-game absence with a lower-body injury.
Several players came back from injuries. Defenseman Logan Mailloux made his season debut for St. Louis and played 18:09; a broken right hand had kept him out for 17 games. For Detroit, forward Mason Appleton returned after 16 games out and Marco Kasper after 17. Justin Faulk, traded from St. Louis to Detroit on March 6 after six seasons with the Blues, played his first game back in St. Louis and ended the night at minus-1 after 21:20 on the ice. Barron, who joined the Blues from Nashville, has three goals and seven assists across 15 games.
One Blues forward saw little of the third period’s push. Dalibor Dvorsky, who has five points in 18 games this season, got only 6:36 across nine shifts and was not used again once the second period passed 13:48.
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