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Mar 25, 2024; St. Louis, Missouri, USA; St. Louis Blues left wing Pavel Buchnevich (89) shoots a penalty shot against Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Logan Thompson (not pictured) in overtime at Enterprise Center. Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY

The St. Louis Blues missed a golden opportunity to tighten the Western Conference wild-card race when they suffered a 2-1 overtime loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday.

That setback raised the stakes for St. Louis as it prepares for Thursday’s meeting with the visiting Calgary Flames. “This team isn’t going to quit fighting,” Blues captain Brayden Schenn said. “We’re going to go all the way to the finish. We still believe in here we can make the playoffs.”

St. Louis (38-30-4, 80 points) has fallen six points behind the Golden Knights, who currently hold the second and final wild-card spot in the West. Vegas earned another point on Tuesday with its 5-4 overtime loss to the Nashville Predators.

The Blues, who are 6-1-1 in their past eight games, and the Golden Knights have each played 72 games. “We’re still in the fight,” St. Louis interim coach Drew Bannister said. “We have 10 games left. At this point, obviously, we’re going to need some help, but we can’t worry about what happened here (Monday). We can only worry about what’s moving forward here.

Moving forward is Calgary, and we gotta continue to win hockey games and win in regulation. But we’ve got to come up with two points every time we come to the rink.”

The Blues will face the Flames without fourth-line center Oskar Sundqvist, who is out for the remainder of the season after tearing his right anterior cruciate ligament during Monday’s game. Defenseman Torey Krug is questionable for Thursday’s contest due to an illness.

The Flames bring a four-game losing streak to St. Louis, and they are coming off a 3-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday.