{"id":611956,"date":"2026-04-17T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611956\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:50:10","slug":"projected-lineup-april-16-at-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611956\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: April 16 at Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonatan Berggren, Jack Finley and Justin Holl will return to the lineup for the St. Louis Blues in the final game of the season on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues will close out their 2025-26 campaign in Utah against the Mammoth, with puck drop scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CT (ESPN, 101 ESPN).<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Drouin, Matthew Kessel and Oskar Sundqvist will sit out. Joel Hofer will start in net.<\/p>\n<p>With the Blues out of playoff contention, the stakes are much lower than head coach Jim Montgomery would like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a different, foreign feeling, and it&#8217;s a feeling I never want to have again,&#8221; said Montgomery. &#8220;And that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s going to be really paramount that we have a great offseason.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonatan Berggren, Jack Finley and Justin Holl will return to the lineup for the St. Louis Blues in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-611956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611956","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=611956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}