Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn both scored in the shootout as the St. Louis Blues, despite blowing a two-goal lead in the final 3:10 of regulation, pulled out a 5-4 shootout victory over the slumping Vegas Golden Knights on Monday in Las Vegas.

Schenn, Neighbours, Nathan Walker and Cam Fowler each scored goals and Jordan Kyrou had two assists for St. Louis, which won for the third time in four games.

Jordan Binnington made 28 saves and stopped two of three shots in the shootout for the Blues, who moved within one point of the idle Calgary Flames for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference.

Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev each had a goal and an assist, Shea Theodore had four assists and Tomas Hertl and Brett Howden also scored goals for Vegas, which suffered its season-high fourth straight loss and sixth in seven games. Adin Hill finished with 24 saves.

Trailing 4-2, the Golden Knights pulled Hill for an extra attacker with 3:23 remaining and Eichel cut the deficit to one goal just 13 seconds later with a one-timer from the left circle.

Hill was pulled again with 1:55 to go and Dorofeyev tied it with a one-timer from the middle of the right circle with 29.6 seconds left for his team-leading 20th goal.

Eichel, who scored the only shootout goal for Vegas, had a chance to win it in overtime but his tip-in try of a Mark Stone pass missed a wide-open net. Stone also had a chance to win when he went in on a breakaway but shot it wide.

St. Louis took a 1-0 lead at the 8:25 mark of the first period when Schenn finished a rush with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle over Hill’s glove.

Vegas tied it on a power-play goal by Hertl, who swept a rebound of a Dorofeyev shot away from under Binnington’s left pad and into an open right side of the net for his team-leading ninth power-play goal of the season.

The Blues regained the lead with just 16.4 seconds left in the period when Walker tucked in a rebound of Philip Broberg’s shot past Hill’s blocker side.

Neighbours, left alone in the left circle, extended the lead to 3-1 early in the second period when he crept in and roofed a wrist shot past Hill’s blocker side. But the Golden Knights answered just 54 seconds later when Howden put in a spinning wrist shot from the slot on a rebound of a shot by Theodore.

St. Louis restored its two-goal lead with just 31 seconds left in the period on a power-play goal by Fowler, who blasted a slap shot from the left point through traffic and over Hill’s left pad.

–Field Level Media