Two new players –\u00a0acquired just prior to Friday’s 2 p.m. CT trade deadline – will make their debuts with the St. Louis Blues on Sunday night in Anaheim (8 p.m. CT, FanDuel Sports Network, 101 ESPN).<\/p>\n
Forward Jonathan\u00a0Drouin was\u00a0acquired from the New York Islanders along with a first-round pick, a third-round pick and goalie prospect Marcus\u00a0Gidlof in exchange for Brayden Schenn.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Justin\u00a0Holl was acquired from the Detroit Red Wings along with a first-round pick, a third-round pick and forward prospect Dmitri Buchelnikov in exchange for Justin Faulk.<\/p>\n
Drouin, 30, has put together a 12-season NHL career, posting 395 points (110 goals, 285 assists) in 662 regular-season games with Tampa Bay, Montreal, Colorado and the NY Islanders. He is expected to play on a line with Pius Suter and Pavel Buchnevich on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Holl, 34, has appeared in eight NHL seasons, posting 95 points (13 goals, 82 assists) and a plus-59 rating in 396 games. This season, he has played in 41 games for the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins. He will be paired with Tyler Tucker on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Joel Hofer is expected to start in goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two new players –\u00a0acquired just prior to Friday’s 2 p.m. CT trade deadline – will make their debuts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-210960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210960","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=210960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}