Sam Reinhart scores the deciding shootout goal against the St. Louis Blues.
By Heather Engel / NHL.com Correspondent
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sam Reinhart scored the deciding goal in the shootout to give the Buffalo Sabres a 4-3 win against the St. Louis Blues at KeyBank Center on Sunday.
Brayden Schenn tied it 3-3 at 8:41 of the third period for the Blues on wraparound into an open left side of the net to send the game to overtime.
The Blues (37-27-8) pulled within five points of the Predators for second place in the Central Division.
Johan Larsson, Evan Rodrigues, and Conor Sheary scored for the Sabres (31-32-9), who ended a seven-game losing streak. The Sabres are 13 points behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.
Carter Hutton made 30 saves for Buffalo.
Pat Maroon and David Perron also scored for St. Louis, which is 1-2-2 in its past five games after winning 15 of their previous 19. Jake Allen made 31 saves.
Zach Bogosian sent a cross-ice pass to Larsson coming down the left side to put the Sabres up 1-0 at 6:42 of the first period.
Maroon tied it 1-1 at 9:12 when he circled around the net and into the slot untouched, scoring his 200th NHL point.
Rodrigues showed patience on a 2-on-1, cutting to the inner edge of the left circle before shooting far side on Allen to make it 2-1 at 14:48.
Sheary made it to 3-1 at 7:46 of the second on another 2-on-1 for Buffalo, taking a pass from Alex Nylander before going top corner, glove side.
Perron extended his personal point streak to 15 games to pull St. Louis within one at 12:15. After Rasmus Ristolainen’s stick broke, Colton Parayko pushed the puck up to Perron coming out of the penalty box and the forward took advantage of a moving screen in front of him to make it 3-2 from the top of the right circle.
Schenn then tied it 3-3 with his wraparound goal.