While fatigue is always a concern, sometimes having a game the very next day after a loss is a good thing. At least that's what the St. Louis Blues were hoping. They were also hoping to stave off a potential three-game losing streak.
The 2025-26 season continued to be a horribly weird one, even as it benefited the Blues at the start. All St. Louis did was dump the puck into the Vegas Golden Knights' zone, but the puck took a favorable bounce. The goaltender thought it was going to rim around to his left, but it came out the other side, and Robert Thomas knocked it into an empty net just 53 seconds in.