ST. LOUIS — Thursday night was an odd one, but the Blues will take it.

The 5-3 win over the Flames had almost everything.

An adventurous goal-scoring bonanza. Two disallowed Calgary goals. An assist by a goaltender. A fight. The end of two major Blues droughts. A near hat trick.

In the end, the win was the Blues' seventh in the past nine games as they try to chase down Vegas for an unlikely playoff spot in the Western Conference. Pavel Buchnevich (twice), Zack Bolduc, Jake Neighbours and Brandon Saad scored for the Blues as they received 23 saves and two assists from Jordan Binnington.

Andrei Kuzmenko scored twice, and Jonathan Huberdeau added another for the Flames.

Saad's goal 2:04 into the third period gave the Blues a 4-3 lead just moments after Kuzmenko's goal was disallowed due to a high stick. Saad's goal also came minutes before Rasmus Andersson's wraparound was taken off the board by a successful Blues challenge for offside.

Buchnevich ends drought

When Buchnevich scored in the second period to give the Blues a 3-2 lead, he grabbed the imaginary monkey on his back and chucked it into the front row behind the glass. It snapped a 13-game goalless streak and was his first tally since Feb. 28 at Edmonton.

Buchnevich beat Dustin Wolf from the left dot on a shot that glanced off Wolf’s glove before finding the back of the net. It came on the power play, a four-minute one given to the Blues after Nazem Kadri took a double-minor for high-sticking Scott Perunovich.

When the penalty was announced over the public address system, Kadri was booed by the Enterprise Center crowd, which has become customary since his playoff battles with the Blues as a member of the Colorado Avalanche.

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