The recipe for the last week of Blues hockey is apparent.

Rely on goaltending and special teams to gather points.

The Blues again fell back on the same plan Monday night, but it wasn’t enough during a 4-2 loss to the Flyers. Joel Hofer made 38 saves to keep the Blues in the game, and the power play scored for the third straight game.

But Philadelphia’s Owen Tippett scored the game-winning goal with 5:33 remaining in the third period, breaking through the Blues defense and flipping a backhand over Hofer. It was Tippett’s 10th shot on goal of the game.

Oskar Sundqvist (power play) and Brandon Saad scored for the Blues, as Scott Laughton, Ryan Poehling and Joel Farabee (empty net) also tallied for the Flyers. Carter Hart made 27 saves of his own for Philadelphia.

Saad tied the game at 2 just 1:18 into the third period, beating Hart with a shot from the high slot after the puck bounced off Poehling’s loose stick on the ice.

Hofer put the Blues in a position to tie the game with 31 saves in the first two periods. The Flyers outshot the Blues by four in the first period and by 11 in the second period (20-9), but Hofer — like Jordan Binnington before him — steered the Blues toward a tight game.

Entering the third period on Monday night, the Blues had been outshot in the previous nine periods, if the overtime period Saturday against Boston is counted.

The Blues scored a power-play goal for the third straight game, marking the first time this season they’ve accomplished that feat. Sundqvist slid home a rebound of a Brayden Schenn shot for his second power-play goal in as many games.

The goal gave the Blues five power-play goals in the past three games after they scored two against both the Rangers and Bruins. St. Louis entered the game with the third-worst power play in the league at 13.3%.

The last three power-play goals scored by the Blues have been by players at the net-front: Sundqvist twice and Jake Neighbours once. Last week, the Blues coaching staff tweaked the units to ensure more of a net-front presence with Neighbours and Sundqvist on different units.

Sundqvist’s goal tied the game at 1 with 1:41 remaining the second period.

But the Blues were stung by allowing a goal in the first 63 seconds of the period and with 6.2 seconds remaining in the period.

Laughton scored on a rebound off the far pad of Hofer when he made a save on Garnet Hathaway. The goal was preceded by Torey Krug turning the puck over at the offensive blue line and allowing the Flyers to get out in transition.

After Sundqvist’s goal tied it, the Flyers didn’t wait long to regain the lead. Poehling scored in the dying seconds of the second, batting a puck out of midair and off Jordan Kyrou and in the net. Again, the goal was set up by a turnover by Krug in the offensive zone and came after an apparent missed icing call on the Flyers that would have given the Blues an offensive-zone draw.

It was the 10th goal this season the Blues have given up in the final minute of a period.

Blues interim coach Drew Bannister has been steadfast in his decision to keep the top line of Pavel Buchnevich, Robert Thomas and Kyrou together during the first month of his tenure behind the St. Louis bench, but broke them up during the second period on Monday.

Bannister moved Kasperi Kapanen up to play with Buchnevich and Thomas, while Kyrou shifted down to play with Neighbours and Schenn. In each of Bannister’s 14 games as Blues interim coach, Buchnevich-Thomas-Kyrou has started the game together, even as St. Louis struggled to generate secondary scoring.

The 14-game streak of playing together is the longest since Buchnevich arrived via trade in 2021.

With a shot 5:24 into the first period on Monday night, Kyrou set a franchise record with at least one shot on goal in 136 straight games. Kyrou passed Vladimir Tarasenko’s 135-game streak that ran from December 2017 to October 2019.

Earlier this season, Kyrou passed Garry Unger (123), Phil Roberto (99) and a separate Tarasenko streak (98). The last time Kyrou did not have a shot on goal was March 24, 2022, against Philadelphia.

Kyrou has the longest active streak in the NHL, ahead of William Nylander (115), Auston Matthews (101) and St. Louis native Matthew Tkachuk (92).