GDT: VGK at Blues 2:00 FanDuel, KMOV, Matrix

[hotrivets]

KMOV has to be excited they signed up for this trainwreck. nhl.com guesses Blues will pretty much play the same winning lineup except for Hofer as cannon fodder and Mailloux continuing his expensive education. Note the early start- you can get this out of the way and forget about it by dinner time. Can't be as bad as the Avs game, right?

Blues projected lineup

Jonatan Berggren -- Robert Thomas -- Pavel Buchnevich
Jake Neighbours -- Brayden Schenn -- Jimmy Snuggerud
Otto Stenberg-- Dalibor Dvorsky -- Jordan Kyrou
Alexey Toropchenko -- Oskar Sundqvist -- Robby Fabbri

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

Joel Hofer
Jordan Binnington

Scratched: Mathieu Joseph, Matthew Kessel

Injured: Dylan Holloway (high ankle sprain), Pius Suter (high ankle sprain), Nathan Walker (upper body), Nick Bjugstad (upper body)

[hotrivets]

Golden Knights projected lineup

Ivan Barbashev -- Mitch Marner -- Mark Stone
Pavel Dorofeyev -- Tomas Hertl -- Alexander Holtz
Reilly Smith -- Brett Howden -- Braeden Bowman
Brandon Saad -- Colton Sissons -- Keegan Kolesar

Brayden McNabb -- Kaedan Korczak
Noah Hanifin -- Ben Hutton
Jeremy Lauzon -- Zach Whitecloud

Carter Hart
Akira Schmid

Scratched: Cole Reinhardt

Injured: Jack Eichel (undisclosed), Adin Hill (lower body), William Karlsson (lower body), Shea Theodore (upper body)

[hotrivets]

Plus there is always the Winter Classic at 7:00 HBO MAX, truTV, TNT,

[Russdv14]

So Thomas’ ankle wasn’t injured last game?! Is this confirmed?

[Harry York 37]

Jake Neighbours -- Brayden Schenn -- Jimmy Snuggerud

I reckon those boys had the worst matchup as they were all -3 if memory serves.

They will figure it out, but a brand new line staring down the Av's top forwards is a tough row to hoe.

[hotrivets]

Neighbours-Thomas-Kyrou
Buchnevich-Schenn-Snuggerud
Stenberg-Dvorsky-Berggren
Toropchenko-Sundqvist-Joseph

Broberg-Parayko
Fowler-Faulk
Tucker-Kessel

Hofer

[zamadoo]

Kyrou attempted to play defense at our blue line vs Eichel, and now we're on the PK.

[hotrivets]

Penalty shot- start us off right Kyrou

[zamadoo]

Great play by Parayko on Hertl there. Buried him as well.

Now Kyrou receives the pass from Stenberg out of the box and draws a penalty shot on a break

[LewisL]

Didn't have high expectations on the Kyrou penalty shot, since he's not been good on shootouts

[hotrivets]

Didn't have high expectations on the Kyrou penalty shot, since he's not been good on shootouts

Would have rather had the 2 minutes lame as that might have been

[zamadoo]

Didn't have high expectations on the Kyrou penalty shot, since he's not been good on shootouts

Same. Even vs Hart. ...especially vs Hart. PP preferred. What if coaches had the option?

[PM_123]

I wish the NHL would change the rule and give teams the choice of either taking the penalty shot or getting the 2 minute power play.

[hotrivets]

Wish there were IQ stats for players and teams

[zamadoo]

Parayko out there playing the diamond with Thomas' stick on the PK

[somni]

Well, (bleep).

Somehow a VG player has a breakaway. Just poor hockey.