St. Louis Blues (23-29-9, in the Central Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (30-25-4, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
San Jose, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks head into a matchup against the St. Louis Blues as winners of three games in a row.<\/p>\n
San Jose is 30-25-4 overall and 17-10-3 at home. The Sharks have given up 206 goals while scoring 184 for a -22 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
St. Louis has a 23-29-9 record overall and a 9-17-3 record in road games. The Blues have a -49 scoring differential, with 158 total goals scored and 207 given up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kiefer Sherwood has scored 18 goals with seven assists for the Sharks. Macklin Celebrini has six goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Pavel Buchnevich has 14 goals and 24 assists for the Blues. Jordan Kyrou has scored five goals and added six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 5-4-1, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.4 assists, 4.2 penalties and 9.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blues: 4-5-1, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.1 assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
Blues: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues (23-29-9, in the Central Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (30-25-4, in the Pacific Division) San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[95030,847,1489,88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-205628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-95030","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}