ST. LOUIS -- Bobby Ryan scored his second goal of the game 2:33 into overtime to give the Ottawa Senators a 3-2 victory against the St. Louis Blues at Scottrade Center on Monday.
Ryan, who scored his 200th NHL goal in the third period and had an assist for a three-point night, beat Brian Elliott with a backhand shot for the game-winner after taking a pass from Mark Stone.
Ottawa (19-16-6), which broke a three-game losing streak, also got a goal from Mike Hoffman and 36 saves by Andrew Hammond. The Senators, who lost 3-0 at the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday, are 2-5-0 in the second of back-to-back games.
Troy Brouwer and Kevin Shattenkirk scored for St. Louis (23-14-5), which has lost four of five. The Blues got 29 saves from Elliott, who was drafted in the ninth round of the 2003 NHL Draft by the Senators. Alexander Steen had two assists.
The Blues are 3-0-4 against the Senators since their last regulation loss on Jan. 21, 2010, with Elliott in goal for Ottawa.
The Blues, who led 2-1 going into the third period, have been outscored 6-0 in the past three third periods.
Ottawa trailed 2-0 before rallying to tie the game with a goal late in the second and early in the third.
Ottawa ended its goal drought at 174:24 when Hoffman scored a power-play goal with 1:14 remaining in the second to cut the Blues lead to 2-1. He took Ryan's pass in the left circle and beat Elliott high at the near post for his 19th of the season.
Ryan tied the game with Ottawa's second power-play goal, this one following Jay Bouwmeester's tripping penalty. Kyle Turris won a faceoff and Ryan was able to take a long-range wrist shot through a screen by Stone that beat Elliott high 5:01 into the third.
Ryan has 16 goals and 29 points in 23 games against St. Louis.
Brouwer opened the scoring 14:16 into the game with his seventh goal of the season and first in 10 games; it came after Elliott made a save following a Colton Parayko turnover. On the return rush, Paul Stastny fed Brouwer; he gave the puck to Steen, then got it back and beat Hammond high at the near post.
The Blues went 152:21 between 5-on-5 goals, the last one was scored by Shattenkirk on Dec. 30. The drought was 162:12 between 5-on-5 goals scored by a forward.
Shattenkirk's power-play goal 7:42 into the second gave the Blues a 2-0 lead. With David Backes providing a screen, Shattenkirk's slap shot from the blue line rattled off both posts went into the net for his eighth of the season.
The Senators lost center Mika Zibanejad in the first period after he took an inadvertent stick to the face behind Ottawa net from Blues center Jori Lehtera.
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