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ST. LOUIS — Trevor Moore scored in the third period, then added the deciding goal in the shootout in his first game since being activated off injured reserve to help the Kings beat the St. Louis Blues, 5-4, on Saturday night.
Alex Laferriere had a goal and an assist for the Kings (21-16-13), who have won two straight after four consecutive losses (0-1-3). Taylor Ward and Brian Dumoulin also scored for the Kings and Darcy Kuemper made 25 saves.
Jordan Kyrou scored twice, Brayden Schenn and Dalibor Dvorsky added one goal each, and Joel Hofer made 24 saves for St. Louis (19-24-9), which has lost four consecutive games (0-3-1) for the first time since the opening month of the season.
Moore, who missed 11 games with an upper-body injury, scored in the fourth round of the shootout. Then Kuemper denied Blues forward Jimmy Snuggerud to help the Kings improve to 8-13 in overtime games and shootouts this season (their 21 total OT or shootout games is an NHL-high)
“It just feels good to be back and playing,” Moore told NHL.com. “Just grateful for that and to see one go in in an important moment always feels good. Your adrenaline’s pumping [after] being out for a while. Your body sometimes goes on autopilot, which is nice.”
With Hofer off the ice for an extra attacker, Kyrou scored his second goal of the game by converting Justin Faulk’s rebound to tie the game at 4-4 with 2:10 left in regulation.
After the Blues turned the puck over, Ward took a pass from Jeff Malott and scored coming down the middle to put the Kings up 1-0 just 4:31 into the game.
The Kings doubled their lead 71 seconds into the second period when Dumoulin scored from the left point with Corey Perry screening Hofer. It was Dumoulin’s first goal of the season.
The Blues rallied for three goals in just 5:56 to take a 3-2 lead. They cut their deficit to 2-1 with a rush goal when Dvorsky raced up the middle, passed to Otto Stenberg on the left wing, then scored off the return pass.
Schenn tied the score at the 6:30 mark on a power play. Pavel Buchnevich set up Schenn’s tap-in at the right post with a cross-crease pass.
Kyrou put St. Louis ahead 3-2 at 8:10, circling the back of the net to beat Kuemper with a wraparound goal.
“We started good, but that second period with three goals allowed in a short amount of time was really disappointing,” Kings coach Jim Hiller told NHL.com. “We made mistakes … we gave them three, but I really liked the push back after that to tie it was important, and I thought the third period was our best period. They scored one late but the third period, we had chances. It was nice to see the one go in to get us ahead.”
Laferriere tied the score just over two minutes later by taking Perry’s pass from behind the net and catching Hofer off the left post.
“We didn’t panic,” Moore told NHL.com. “We had been playing a pretty good game, making some plays out there, so just more of that.”
Brandt Clarke fired a shot from the point and Moore swatted the rebound past Hofer for his sixth goal of the season (the 100th of his NHL career) and a 4-3 lead with 8:26 left in the third period. The Blues challenged the goal for offside, but a video review determined that the Kings remained onside.
In overtime, Kuemper stopped a Dvorsky breakaway and Hofer denied Clarke from point-blank range to send the game to the shootout.
Adrian Kempe also scored in the shootout for the Kings. Dvorsky scored for the Blues in the third round to keep the shootout alive.
“It’s fun to be put in those situations and to have the confidence from the guys that know you can score,” Moore told NHL.com of the shootout.
The Blues, who fell to 1-9 in overtime or shootout games this season, announced that 6,848 fans attended the game even though St. Louis was under a winter storm warning.
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