Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn scored during a shootout after St. Louis gave up two goals in the final minutes of regulation, and the Blues held on to defeat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 on Monday

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Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn scored during a shootout to lift the St. Louis Blues past the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 on Monday. Jack Eichel and Pavel Dorofeyev scored for Vegas inside the final four minutes to tie the game and force overtime,

Jake Neighbours and Brayden Schenn scored during a shootout after St. Louis gave up two goals in the final minutes of regulation, and the Blues held on to defeat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 on Monday.

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.

Forwards from three lines (Brayden Schenn, Nathan Walker and Jake Neighbours), plus a defenseman (Cam Fowler) scored goals. The Blues struck on the power play. Jordan Binnington made 28 saves.

Amid their worst losing stretch of the season, the Vegas Golden Knights host the St. Louis Blues in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee Monday in Las Vegas.

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It sure seemed to work for Pavel Dorofeyev on Sunday night. The 24-year-old right wing, after going through one of the longest dry spells of his young NHL career, broke through with two power-play goals and an assist to help the Knights defeat the Minnesota Wild 4-1 at T-Mobile Arena.

For 59 1/2 minutes, it looked like Monday afternoon's date with the Vegas Golden Knights was just what the doctor ordered for the Blues.

Both Neighbours and Schenn scored in the shootout, as Jordan Binnington stopped two of the three shots he faced, lifting the Blues to a shootout win and avoiding a late-game