GDT: Blues at Bruins 6:00 FanDuel

[hotrivets]

PROJECTED LINEUP Kas is in!

Brayden Schenn - Robert Thomas - Jake Neighbours
Dylan Holloway - Pius Suter - Jordan Kyrou
Aleksanteri Kaskimaki - Dalibor Dvorsky - Pavel Buchnevich
Mathieu Joseph - Oskar Sundqvist - Nick Bjugstad

Philip Broberg - Colton Parayko
Tyler Tucker - Justin Faulk
Cam Fowler - Logan Mailloux

Jordan Binnington

[hotrivets]

Blues Head Coach Jim Montgomery had Kaskimaki skating on a line with Dalibor Dvorsky and Pavel Buchnevich in practice, and so it’s likely to see that group together on the ice Thursday.

“Him and Dvorsky have played a lot together in the American League, so there’s familiarity there,” Montgomery said. “And Buchy is just a solid veteran that can help those guys offensively and defensively with his 200-foot game. (Aleksanteri’s) energy to be in the NHL is obvious. That’s a good jolt for our team right now.”

Kaskimaki was a third-round pick of the Blues pick in the 2022 NHL Draft (No. 73 overall) and is playing in his second season with the Springfield Thunderbirds in the AHL. Through 79 AHL games, he has posted 15 goals and 26 assists (41 points).

The Blues will also get Pius Suter back in the lineup after he missed two games with a muscle-related lower-body injury. He was back in practice Wednesday and has been declared good to go.

Jimmy Snuggerud, Alexey Toropchenko and Nathan Walker remain out.

[crookedfeeder]

No David Pastrnak for them. woot! woot!!

Haven't really been following them much; but Morgan Geekie with 20gls.

...and from what I'm seeing they're going with Korpisalo over Swayman. everything is lining up for a .... so, obviously, jinx! jinx!!

LGB!

[hotrivets]

Bruins projected lineup

Alex Steeves -- Elias Lindholm -- Morgan Geekie
Casey Mittelstadt -- Pavel Zacha -- Viktor Arvidsson
Tanner Jeannot -- Fraser Minten -- Mark Kastelic
Marat Khusnutdinov -- Sean Kuraly -- Michael Eyssimont

Hampus Lindholm -- Andrew Peeke
Nikita Zadorov -- Jonathan Aspirot
Mason Lohrei – Victor Soderstrom

Joonas Korpisalo
Jeremy Swayman

Scratched: Jeffrey Viel

Injured: David Pastrnak (undisclosed), Charlie McAvoy (upper body), Jordan Harris (ankle), Matej Blumel (lower body), Henri Jokiharju (undisclosed), Michael Callahan (lower body)

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Status report

Suter will return after missing two games with a lower-body injury. ... Walker, a forward, was placed on injured reserve Tuesday and will be reevaluated in eight weeks. ... Kaskimaki will make his NHL debut; the third-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft was recalled from Springfield of the American Hockey League on Monday and was supposed to debut in a 4-1 loss to the Anaheim Ducks that night but flight delays due to bad weather prevented him from arriving on time. ... Luff, a forward, was recalled from Springfield on Wednesday. … Pastrnak, a forward, will miss his fourth straight game. … Callahan, a defenseman, was placed on injured reserve after leaving in the second period of a 5-4 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday. Soderstrom was recalled from Providence of the AHL on an emergency basis Thursday to replace Callahan. … McAvoy, a defenseman, participated in the morning skate in a noncontact jersey. He has not played since he was struck in the face with the puck against the Montreal Canadiens on Nov. 15 and had facial surgery a few days later.

[zamadoo]

No David Pastrnak for them. woot! woot!!

Haven't really been following them much; but Morgan Geekie with 20gls.

...and from what I'm seeing they're going with Korpisalo over Swayman. everything is lining up for a .... so, obviously, jinx! jinx!!

LGB!

LGB!

[zamadoo]

Good hard dump in around the boards by Tucker enabled his man to get there, resulting in a great scoring chance.

[DawgDad]

Tucker, wake up!

[hotrivets]

Joseph is really flying- hope he gets rewarded

[DawgDad]

Joseph is really flying- hope he gets rewarded

Kicked in the after-burners.

[somni]

Geez...that was a breakdown.
Poor dump in by kyrou

[zamadoo]

At least Tucker didn't take a penalty...but then he slides into Buch and disloges the net...

Dvo line out there for several faceoffs in the d zone here. That guy has Dvo's number on the draws, but we'll see how that ends up later in the game.

Joseph is really flying- hope he gets rewarded

Agree. I like him on the 4th line to maximize his intensity, but a shorty could be nice for him.

Oh and there's some physicality from Holloway.

Edit: And there's some bad team D. Parayko poking at he blue line while guys are flying down his wing. Broberg comes all the way across to get his guy, who had the puck, and then he passed it across to Broberg's now unguarded guy for a wide open net that Binner was left out to dry on.

[crookedfeeder]

Binnington letting them have too many quality chances.

[2forDiving]

The worst player at the offensive blue line strikes again. Is Kyrou that afraid of getting hit or is his hockey IQ that low?

[JoshInFenton]

at least he got himself off the ice so he didn't get the -1...

[DawgDad]

Blues got caught in a bad change. Parayko jumped up to cover at his own blue line, which turned out to be a HUGE mistake when another Bruin skated in alone on his side. Don't see him doing that very often.