The St. Louis Blues have points in each of their last three games and will look to keep that going as they continue their season-long five-game road trip on Monday night against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden (6 p.m. CT, FanDuel Sports Network, 101 ESPN).<\/p>\n
Based on the morning skate, the top three forwards lines are expected to remain the same, although a handful of changes deeper throughout the lineup are expected.<\/p>\n
Logan Mailloux will be making his return to the lineup after a short stint with the Springfield Thunderbirds. In five AHL contests, Mailloux scored twice.<\/p>\n
“I think he had a good tour of duty there in Springfield,” Blues Head Coach Jim Montgomery said. “He feels good about his game, got a lot of touches, got a lot of minutes, now he’s excited. You can tell just by the way he’s skating out there and the smile on his face.”<\/p>\n
Mailloux was skating with Cam Fowler, meaning Tyler Tucker is paired with Justin Faulk for Monday’s matchup.<\/p>\n
“I just want to have a young player with a vet on the bottom two pairs,” Montgomery said of the defensive pairing changes. “We’ve got our No. 1 pairing [in Philip Broberg and Colton Parayko] – it goes out there, shuts the other team’s top line down. But we think Faulk and Fowler have the ability to raise the levels and make [the younger guys] better, more complete pros with the game management on the bench and all that stuff.”<\/p>\n
Other changes include Oskar Sundqvist returning to the fourth line in place of Nick Bjugstad, centering Alexey Toropchenko and Nathan Walker.<\/p>\n
Joel Hofer will start in goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues have points in each of their last three games and will look to keep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-311238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}