CHICAGO — Kyle Calder scored in overtime to lift the Chicago Blackhawks over the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Wednesday night and snap a five-game losing streak.
Calder won it at the 3:49 mark of the extra session after being left open at the right side of the St. Louis net. He took a pass from Duncan Keith and fired a shot past a sprawling Patrick Lalime.
Keith and Milan Bartovic also scored for the Blackhawks, who sent the Blues to their eighth straight loss.
Kevin Dallman and Trent Whitfield scored early in the third period to help the Blues come back from a 2-0 deficit to tie it and force overtime.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 44 saves for the Blackhawks.
Lalime made 30 saves for the Blues.
Bartovic opened the scoring 6:13 into the first period. He fired a high shot past Lalime’s glove from the slot after taking a pass from Jim Vandermeer. Bartovic’s goal was his first in 13 games with Chicago this season.
Keith made it 2-0 with 7:32 left in the first when he scored on a shot from the top of the slot.
Khabibulin came up with several tough saves in the first period. He made a glove save on Petr Cajanek, who was in alone, 5:10 into the period and blocked a couple of close-in attempts from a scramble midway through the period.
St. Louis outshot Chicago 16-7 in the scoreless second period, but few of the Blues chances were prime.
Dallman cut it to 2-1 at 2:58 of the third when he converted a rebound from a goalmouth scramble. He scored 3 seconds after a St. Louis power play elapsed.
Whitfield tied it 2-all at 6:25 of the period. Left alone at the edge of the crease, he lofted a loose puck over Khabibulin’s sprawled pads.
Khabilbulin made a point-blank stop on Jay McClement 40 seconds into overtime. Lalime stopped Keith from the slot about a minute later.
Notes: St. Louis defenseman Bryce Salvador missed his sixth game with a sore shoulder. Blues center Ryan Johnson was set to return on Wednesday after missing 11 games with a broken foot, but collided in practice Tuesday with Jesse Boulerice and sat out with a head injury.