Three periods, an overtime, and a shootout later, Joel Hofer made 34 saves, proving well for the Blues, who ended the Tampa Bay Lightning's franchise-tying 11-game win streak on Friday night in a Shootout from the Enterprise Center. The
The Blues shatter the Tampa Bay Lightning's win streak
27-year-old Jordan Kyrou took the lone goal in the shootout for the Blues, handing the franchise their first win in overtime or a shootout, previously being 0-8 after regulation this season. "It feels great," Kyrou said. "Obviously, we haven’t done that all year. It feels good to get that one."
“You want those battles,” Hofer said about a final save from Nikita Kucherov's wrist shot in the third round of the shootout. “Luckily, it went my way." "I don't think I've been very successful in shootouts before. It was nice to get a win, actually."
The Lightning started the new year undefeated, with 12 wins since December 18, when they lost to the Los Angeles Kings, 2-1. The team was just one win away from their 12th consecutive victory of the season, which would have tied the previous record of 11 wins set in 2020, the year they won the Stanley Cup.
“Guys rose up to the challenge and played a stingy, hard defensive game — don’t think we had our best tonight by any means but guys dug in and got it done.”
— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) January 17, 2026
Jake Neighbours, Jordan Kyrou and Jim Montgomery after Friday’s shootout win over Tampa Bay. #stlblues pic.twitter.com/li20zkNVkt
“We’ve put ourselves in position to win the past 12 games, and for 11 straight of them, we did,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper said. “Tonight we had ample opportunities to pull this one out. A puck bounce here, a big save, but I liked our game, and we’ll look at the tape. Probably a little frustrated in the two goals we gave up. We broke down in just a little instance, but you’re down two on the road and you come back and get at least one point, so I’m pretty proud of the guys.
The Lightning will travel to Dallas to face the Stars on Sunday, while the Blues will head to Edmonton to take on the Oilers on the same day.
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