Blues blow late lead, lose to Kraken in overtime

Matthew DeFranks, St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Nov 8, 2025

Published in Hockey

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ST. LOUIS — The old wounds have been revisited.

The St. Louis Blues allowed a game-tying goal with 1.9 seconds left in the third period, and then lost in overtime 4-3 to the Seattle Kraken on Saturday night at Enterprise Center.

Shane Wright scored the game-winning goal for Seattle with 3:03 remaining in overtime.

Chandler Stephenson scored with a last-ditch shot in the dying moments of regulation. His goal withstood a video review by the league for potential goaltender interference. Before Stephenson's goal, the Blues missed three chances to bury an empty-net goal.

Jordan Kyrou scored the go-ahead goal for the Blues early in the third period that would have been the game-winner if not for Stephenson's late game-tying tally.

Dylan Holloway and Dalibor Dvorsky also scored for the Blues, while Joel Hofer made 26 saves. Ryker Evans and Eeli Tolvanen scored for the Kraken.

St. Louis continues a four-game homestand when it hosts Calgary on Tuesday night.

Kyrou’s details

Kyrou didn’t show up on the scoresheet until the third period in his first game after being healthy scratched Thursday in Buffalo, but he did have an impact on the game early on.

In the first period, it was his pressure in the corner that might have forced Ryan Winterton into an ill-advised pass across the ice that was picked off by Holloway. Holloway quickly wired a shot past Philipp Grubauer 5 1/2 minutes into the first period to give the Blues a 1-0 lead.

It was Holloway’s third goal of the season and snapped a four-game goal drought.

Holloway exited the game briefly in the second period when he was hit in the right chest/rib area by a 81-mph slap shot from Colton Parayko. Holloway received medical attention while walking slowly down the Blues’ tunnel, but returned to the bench shortly thereafter.

Kyrou also helped singlehandedly put the Blues on the power play with about 4 1/2 minutes left in the first period. He blocked a Vince Dunn shot from the left point and then forced Dunn to take an interference penalty while trying to hold Kyrou away from the loose puck.

At that point, the Blues were already up 2-0 thanks to Dalibor Dvorsky’s power-play goal at 9:40 of the first period. Seattle was penalized for too many men, and that allowed Dvorsky to twice try and find Jimmy Snuggerud at the net front.

The first attempt sailed through the crease, but the Blues were able to recover the puck. When it circled back to Dvorsky, his hard pass to towards the net clanked off the stick of Seattle defenseman Adam Larsson. It was Dvorsky’s second career NHL goal, and both have come on the power play.

Kyrou got on the board himself at 5:10 of the third period, finishing a mad scramble at the net-front as Grubauer didn’t have his stick. Philip Broberg’s shot glanced off Evans’ skate and slid through the crease to Kyrou, whose initial attempt didn’t get through. He then collected the puck and gave the Blues a 3-2 lead.

His fifth goal of the season tied him for second on the team behind the injured Jake Neighbours.

Seattle finds its sea legs

The Kraken battled back in the second period, climbing their way out of a 2-0 hole to send the game into second intermission tied at 2. In the period, Seattle outshot the Blues 15-5 as Evans and Tolvanen each found the back of the net in the middle frame.

Evans cut the Blues lead to 2-1 at 8:28 of the second period, as his shot from the left wing. Alexey Toropchenko had a chance to clear the puck earlier in the sequence, but his attempt went directly to Tye Kartye. That gave Evans a chance to squeeze his shot through Hofer.

At 15:25, Tolvanen tied the game on the power play, hopping on a juicy rebound of a Dunn shot that Hofer kicked out to his left. It was Tolvanen’s first goal of the season.

It was the second time this season that the Blues allowed an opponent to come back from down multiple goals. On Oct. 25 in Detroit, the Red Wings erased a 4-0 Blues lead on their way to a 6-4 win over St. Louis.

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