Blues score an own-goal on a delayed penalty with Binnington pulled. Maybe do it twice for good measure. Binnington gives up zero goals, but Blues lose.[/B]
In seriousness, I can't root for the Blues to lose to begin with, but I sure as hell am going to pull for them hard in front of a rookie goalie making his first start. Binnington deserves the best they can give him. This is probably his one and only shot at an NHL career, this stretch of games coming up.
That's the only way I could think of it; have a shutout and a loss. Something similar actually happened to Mike Murphy:
"An NHL goalie is credited with a loss when he’s the goalie of record when the winning goal is scored against him. In theory, that makes it pretty darn difficult to lose a game without, you know, giving up a goal. Difficult, yes, but not impossible, as a guy named Mike Murphy proved in 2011.
Murphy is still an active player, most recently seen plying his trade in Austria. But at this point, he has only two career NHL games on his résumé.
That’s right: Murphy has never allowed a goal in the big leagues, and yet is somehow the proud owner of an NHL loss.
During a game against the Flames on December 6, 2011, Carolina starter Cam Ward gave up six goals before being pulled in the third period. Murphy, the backup that night, went in to mop up with his team down 6-3. The Hurricanes scored to trim the deficit to two goals, and it stayed that way until the team pulled Murphy for an extra attacker in the dying minutes. It didn’t work; the Flames scored into the empty net to make it 7-4 and ice the game.
So far, so good. But then the Hurricanes scored two goals in the final minute to make things interesting. It was too little, too late, and the Fla
mes won the game by a final score of 7-6. But because of the comeback, that seventh Flames goal — the one scored into an empty net — ended up being the winner. And because Murphy was the goalie of record at the time, he took the loss, even though he wasn’t on the ice."