GDT: Canes at Blues 6:30 ESPN+

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Note the early start and media choice for tonight. Bug should be back in tonight.

According to the NHL Media Site, the Blues have placed Mathieu Joseph on IR, and activated Nick Bjugstad.

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Matthew DeFranks
@MDeFranks
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Blues during morning skate:
Stenberg-Schenn-Snuggerud
Neighbours-Dvorský-Kyrou
Buchnevich-Bjugstad-Berggren
Toropchenko-Sundqvist-Walker
Fabbri

Fowler-Parayko
Tucker-Faulk
Mailloux-Kessel

Hofer (starter’s net)
Binnington

No Thomas.

[TruBlueFan_1970]

Woof

[MiamiLaw]

Do we know if Thomas is sitting out the morning skate or actually out of the game?

[blues2112]

Woof

You ain't kidding.

That's a rough group of centers.

Combined this season:
143 games, 22 goals, 37 assists, 59 points, -47
MacKinnon
45 games, 36 goals, 45 assists, 81 points, +49

[kimzey59]

Do we know if Thomas is sitting out the morning skate or actually out of the game?

Not confirmed either way, yet.
Reading the article with Monty's statements; I would guess he'll play tonight.
https://www.nhl.com/blues/news/projecte ... s-carolina

[Younghopp1991]

Do we know if Thomas is sitting out the morning skate or actually out of the game?

Yahoo fantasy (which means little) moved thomas from healthy to day to day yesterday. Today he went from day to day to out. For what its worth

[somni]

Joseph with the convenient IR timing.
Reminds me of the movie "Victory" (1981), when they broke the goalie's arm so Sylvester Stallone could play. Good movie if you can catch it.

[BluesDom]

JR said on 101.1 Thomas is out of lineup

[DawgDad]

Canes lost in Detoit last night, they'll be hungry for a win. Ugly Blues lineup.

[Tony Palazzolo]

JR said on 101.1 Thomas is out of lineup

He's been nursing some sort of lower body injury for awhile. He's had a couple of maintenance days recently. They said they are trying to nurse it along until the Olympics which should give him time to rest.

[Hazelwood72]

JR said on 101.1 Thomas is out of lineup

He's been nursing some sort of lower body injury for awhile. He's had a couple of maintenance days recently. They said they are trying to nurse it along until the Olympics which should give him time to rest.

Tony, I had also thought that Thomas was playing through injury. He’s just not as crisp and energetic as in the past.

I also think Parayko’s playing through injury as well.

Just curious, are you Enrico’s brother? He did a fabulous job singing the Star Spangled Banner at that game in LA years ago! He was a pretty good umpire, too!

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With Thomas, it’s a day to day situation from an incident Dec. 31 late in the third period against the Colorado Avalanche that coach Jim Montgomery said is something that has recurred following Avalanche forward Zakhar Bardakov falling on his leg/knee area.

“He just re-aggravated it,” Montgomery said. “It’s day to day and it’s just a comfort level of playing with the pain tolerance.”

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Hurricanes Projected Lineup:

Andrei Svechnikov-Sebastian Aho-Nikolaj Ehlers
Taylor Hall-Logan Stankoven-Jackson Blake
Jordan Martinook-Jordan Staal-Seth Jarvis
Eric Robinson-Mark Jankowski-Jesperi Kotkaniemi

Jaccob Slavin-Jalen Chatfield
K’Andre Miller-Sean Walker
Shayne Gostisbehere-Alexander Nikishin

Brandon Bussi is projected to start in goal; Frederik Andersen would be the backup.

The healthy scratch is projected to be Mike Reilly. Pyotr Kochetkov (lower body), Noah Philp (concussion) and William Carrier (undisclosed) are all projected to be out.

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From Korac. So our coaches see all of these things but we cannot DO these things. Pretty sad.

“It’s two-fold,” Montgomery said. “This is the best offensive team I’ve seen from Carolina. They’re much more dynamic off the rush than they have been from what I’ve seen in years past, and then the puck pressure, the 200-foot puck pressure in all three zones is the heaviest and hardest in the league. Florida does a tremendous job of their puck pressure too. But in the neutral zone, they’re a 1-1-3, so you do have a little time and space there. You don’t have that time and space against Carolina. That would be the difference and they’re very similar in the offensive and defensive zone.

“Their puck pressure creates turnovers in all three zones, and when they get turnovers, it’s going right to the net, bodies and pucks are going right to the net. Off the rush, they’re more dynamic. In the offensive zone, they used to pound pucks with two on the inside and they actually do more of a spread look, depending on who they’re playing now. They’ve become a lot more diversified offensively, but they haven’t changed their identity. They’re coming after you.”

[zamadoo]

TJ Oshie talking about Schenn and the Blues maytbe not scoring as much as they'd like to, but that they gotta get out there and check and play hard to find their game.

I like the lineup. We'll be rolling 4 lines and will have one of our better games of the season. Probably a win, but maybe another loser point.

Looking for Faulk to do something tonight.

LGB