Blues lose high-scoring game in shootout against Flyers, 6-5

Matthew DeFranks, St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Nov 14, 2025

Published in Hockey

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ST. LOUIS — Friday night brought the fireworks inside Enterprise Center, as the Blues lost to the Flyers, 6-5, in a shootout in a high-scoring affair.

Trevor Zegras scored the game-deciding goal for Philadelphia in the first round of the shootout.

The finish came after Jordan Binnington stopped Zegras on a penalty shot with 2:09 left in overtime, after he was brought down by Pavel Buchnevich at center ice. Jordan Kyrou rang the post just after time expired in overtime.

Kyrou, Jimmy Snuggerud, Justin Faulk, Dylan Holloway and Robert Thomas scored for the Blues. Binnington made 25 saves, including five in overtime.

Zegras and Christian Dvorak each scored twice for the Flyers, who also received a goal from Owen Tippett.

The Blues finish a four-game homestand on Saturday night when they host the Golden Knights at 7 p.m.

Wild third

The teams combined for four goals in the first 10:27 of the third period, setting up a frenetic end to the game.

Holloway scored 40 seconds into the period, ripping a shot from the top of the left circle to beat Ersson clean. It was the third consecutive game in which Holloway scored a goal. Then about five minutes into the third, Thomas found the back of the net on a feed from Snuggerud below the goal line.

Thomas’ goal gave the Blues a 5-3 lead. A two-goal lead in the third period should be OK, right? Not Friday night.

Dvorak scored his second goal of the night at 7:53 moments after Matthew Kessel turned the puck over to Tippett in the circle. Tippett handled the scoring himself at 10:29, sneaking into the slot to beat Binnington, who was screened by three of his teammates at the net-front.

Zegras gives and takes

Kyrou gave the Blues a 1-0 lead just 79 seconds into the game, converting a Zegras neutral-zone turnover into his sixth goal of the season. Zegras blindly deflected a puck towards the middle of the ice intended for Bobby Brink, but Kyrou stepped in to intercept the pass and spring himself on a one-man rush.

Kyrou sped down the right wing and then beat Flyers goaltender Samuel Ersson for his second goal in the three games since he was healthy scratched in Buffalo.

Zegras made up for his error quickly. Seven minutes after Kyrou scored, Zegras scored his first of the night, finishing a 3-on-2 odd-man rush with a shot that beat Binnington between his legs. Zegras started the play by stepping past a pinching Cam Fowler at the blue line, leading to a rush chance for Philadelphia. Christian Dvorak dropped the puck for Zegras after gaining the blue line, and he did the rest.

About a minute and a half after Zegras tied the game at 1, Snuggerud scored his first goal in two weeks to give the Blues a 2-1 lead at first intermission. Thomas set up Snuggerud almost singlehandedly, winning a puck from Travis Konecny at the top of the Blues’ zone, beating Travis Sanheim to the puck at center ice, holding up at the dots and finding a trailing Snuggerud.

Later on, Zegras tied the game at 3 with 1:36 remaining in the second period, tipping an Emil Andrae shot at the net-front. The goal came moments after Buchnevich was stopped on the rush by Ersson with a chance to extend the Blues lead to 4-2.

That’s icing?

Faulk scored his fourth goal of the season at 6:54 of the second period, giving the Blues a 3-1 lead by winding up a slap shot after a won offensive-zone faceoff. Oskar Sundqvist won the draw back to Fowler, who teed up Faulk for a 94-mph one-timer.

The goal capped a somewhat confusing sequence on the ice. Sanheim cleared the puck from his own zone, and officials appeared to call icing despite Owen Tippett winning the race to the loose puck and Jordan Binnington leaving his crease to play the puck. On the official play by play, it’s listed as an icing.

But it’s possible on-ice officials called offside instead on Tippett, and the ensuing faceoff returned to the Flyers zone since that’s where Sanheim passed the puck from. The Flyers were also able to change three of their skaters, which would not have happened on an icing call.

Nevertheless, the Blues capitalized on the offensive-zone draw and Sundqvist’s only faceoff win of the first two periods. For Fowler, it was his 500th career point and he became the first defenseman from his 2010 draft class to reach the milestone.

But 23 seconds after Faulk’s goal, the Blues gave it right back. Fowler had his pocket picked behind the Blues net, then deflected a Flyers shot as it was approaching Binnington before Dvorak stuffed in a loose puck that cut the Blues lead to 3-2.