Game

Predators at Blues

Blues 3, Predators 2 · first star Pavel Buchnevich (2 G, 0 A).

2025-26 regular season · Preseason. The 2026-27 regular season starts Sep 29. Data as of September 28, 2026, source NHL.

Nashville Predators 2 at St. Louis Blues 3

Predators NSH

2 FINAL 3

Blues STL

Saturday, December 27, 2025 · 8:00 PM ET · Enterprise Center, St. Louis

Line score by period
Team	1	2	3	T	SOG
Predators	1	0	1	2	32
Blues	2	0	1	3	20

Shot chart

Every shot attempt, computed from the league's play-by-play coordinates. Predators attack left, Blues attack right, all periods folded onto one rink. Attempts are plotted where the league recorded them, so the 4 marks in a team's own end are attempts logged from there: empty-net shots, long dumps on the net. Boxscore shots on goal: NSH 32, STL 20.

NSH in red STL in blue goal shot on goal missed blocked Predators 32 shots on goal (2 goals, 20 missed, 20 blocked) attacking left; Blues 20 shots on goal (3 goals, 14 missed, 3 blocked) attacking right.

Shots by period

Shots on goal, goals and attempts by period
Period	NSH SOG	NSH G	NSH ATT	STL SOG	STL G	STL ATT
1st	8	1	16	8	2	13
2nd	10	0	29	5	0	14
3rd	14	1	27	7	1	10
Total	32	2	72	20	3	37

Shots by situation

Shots on goal and goals by strength of the shooting team
Situation	NSH SOG	NSH G	STL SOG	STL G
Even strength	27	1	18	2
Power play	3	0	2	1
Short-handed	2	1	0	0

Attempt share by period

Predators took 66.1% of the shot attempts, and 63.3% of the 90 attempts taken at 5-on-5. An attempt is a goal, a shot on goal, a miss or a blocked shot; CF% is the share of them belonging to the Blues and FF% their share of the ones that were not blocked, so the Predators hold the remainder. All situations unless the 5-on-5 figure is named. All 32 teams

Attempt share by period, all situations, Predators at Blues
Period	STL CF%	STL FF%
1st	44.8	45.8
2nd	32.6	40.6
3rd	27.0	33.3
Game	33.9	39.5

Team totals only: per-player on-ice numbers need shift data, which this source does not publish.

Scoring summary

1st period

08:45 Brayden Schenn (7) PP Cam Fowler (13), Dalibor Dvorsky (3) · tip-in 0–1
11:41 Tyson Jost (3) Nicolas Hague (7) · tip-in 1–1
18:14 Pavel Buchnevich (6) Robert Thomas (19) · backhand 1–2

3rd period

04:40 Pavel Buchnevich (7) Robert Thomas (20), Philip Broberg (11) · wrist 1–3
12:03 Fedor Svechkov (2) SH Erik Haula (15), Nicolas Hague (8) · wrist 2–3

Three stars

Pavel Buchnevich STL · L #89 · 2 G, 0 A
Joel Hofer STL · G #30 · 0 GA, .938 SV%
Brayden Schenn STL · C #10 · 1 G, 0 A

Penalties

Penalties
Period	Time	Team	Player	Infraction	Min	Drawn by
1st	03:16	STL	Brayden Schenn	tripping	2	Fedor Svechkov
1st	07:18	NSH	Fedor Svechkov	hooking	2	Colton Parayko
2nd	14:54	STL	Logan Mailloux	hooking	2	Cole Smith
3rd	10:43	NSH	Ryan O'Reilly	high sticking	2	Dalibor Dvorsky

Boxscore

Nashville Predators

Predators skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Nicolas Hague #41	D	0	2	2	+1	0	0	0	0	0.0	17:05
Fedor Svechkov #40	C	1	0	1	+2	4	0	0	2	11.1	13:07
Tyson Jost #17	C	1	0	1	+1	1	2	0	0	0.0	10:35
Erik Haula #56	L	0	1	1	+1	3	1	0	0	60.0	15:15
Michael McCarron #47	C	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	35.3	15:44
Ryan O'Reilly #90	C	0	0	0	-2	1	0	0	2	45.5	18:05
Steven Stamkos #91	C	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	25.0	16:00
Filip Forsberg #9	L	0	0	0	-1	2	2	0	0	0.0	18:30
Michael Bunting #58	L	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0	0.0	16:40
Reid Schaefer #49	L	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0.0	10:39
Cole Smith #36	R	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0.0	12:13
Luke Evangelista #77	R	0	0	0	-1	3	0	1	0	0.0	18:39
Matthew Wood #71	R	0	0	0	+1	2	0	0	0	100.0	14:55
Adam Wilsby #83	D	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	15:42
Brady Skjei #76	D	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	0.0	23:16
Nick Blankenburg #37	D	0	0	0	+1	1	0	0	0	0.0	18:38
Nick Perbix #48	D	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	0.0	20:00
Roman Josi #59	D	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	0.0	23:38

Predators goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Juuse Saros #74	L	20	17	3	.850	16/18	1/2	57:52

St. Louis Blues

Blues skaters · by points
Player	Pos	G	A	PTS	+/-	SOG	HITS	BLK	PIM	FO%	TOI
Pavel Buchnevich #89	L	2	0	2	+2	3	0	0	0	0.0	20:48
Robert Thomas #18	C	0	2	2	+2	1	0	0	0	62.5	20:43
Brayden Schenn #10	C	1	0	1	-1	2	2	0	2	54.5	16:57
Dalibor Dvorsky #54	R	0	1	1	-1	0	3	0	0	75.0	11:14
Cam Fowler #17	D	0	1	1	-1	1	1	2	0	0.0	19:53
Philip Broberg #6	D	0	1	1	+2	0	0	4	0	0.0	22:58
Oskar Sundqvist #70	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	3	0	81.8	14:33
Otto Stenberg #28	C	0	0	0	-1	3	2	0	0	0.0	12:17
Pius Suter #22	C	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	40.0	10:55
Jake Neighbours #63	L	0	0	0	+1	1	1	1	0	0.0	15:19
Alexey Toropchenko #13	R	0	0	0	-1	3	2	1	0	0.0	12:43
Jimmy Snuggerud #21	R	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0.0	14:09
Jonatan Berggren #29	R	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	11:45
Jordan Kyrou #25	R	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	0.0	17:11
Colton Parayko #55	D	0	0	0	+2	0	2	2	0	0.0	22:21
Justin Faulk #72	D	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	0.0	23:15
Logan Mailloux #23	D	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	0.0	13:03
Tyler Tucker #75	D	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	0	0.0	16:09

Blues goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	EV	PP	TOI
Joel Hofer #30	W	32	30	2	.938	26/27	3/3	59:47

SOG shots on goal · BLK blocked shots · FO% faceoff win percentage · EV / PP saves over shots by strength. Skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Source NHL (boxscore, play-by-play, game summary). Shot locations are the league's tracked coordinates; the chart and the situation tables are computed by Play-Pause Hockey. Data as of 2026-09-28.