{"id":387723,"date":"2026-01-02T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:33:07","slug":"projected-lineup-jan-2-vs-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387723\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: Jan. 2 vs. Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues open their 2026 slate against the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday at Enterprise Center (2 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network, First Alert 4, Matrix Midwest, 101 ESPN).<\/p>\n<p>There was no morning skate held Friday due to the afternoon start, but Head Coach Jim Montgomery provided the expected lineup during his pregame media availability.<\/p>\n<p>Mathieu Joseph will be back in, replacing Robby Fabbri on the fourth line. Additionally there will be some changes to the make-up of the top two lines. The defense will remain the same, and Joel Hofer will get the start in net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to see us fight for each other,&#8221; Montgomery said. &#8220;I want to see us have more determination in not being denied getting to hard areas and denying people into hard areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues open their 2026 slate against the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday at Enterprise Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-387723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}