Blues give MAJOR updates… This is CRAZY

Blues give MAJOR updates… This is CRAZY

The St. Louis Blues give a major update on one player in particular which has fans raving. But not only that, we have one key veteran reaching a milestone and the St. Louis Blues and Jim Montgomery have a huge opportunity to set the season right on this road trip. We have so much to break down on these players, what the opportunity is, and an update on Logan Mayu. We have so much to break down. You’re not going to want to miss it. But before we get into it, I want to give a huge shout out to everyone watching. And if you’re part of the 57.9%, you haven’t hit the sub button yet, but you want to stay up to date on everything to do around the St. Louis Blues, make sure to now hit that free subscribe button, and we’ll give you daily updates from all around the team. But with that, dear, let’s dive straight into it today. And we know the St. Louis Blues are heading into Toronto tonight to take on the Toronto Maple Leafs to start their road trip. Now, the biggest thing is, the great news is we know the Blues are better on the road this season. So going into this game, two teams that have been struggling mightily to start the season. What is your thoughts on this matchup and do you think the Blues have a chance to set the season right on this run? They definitely do and I think that it starts tonight because when you look at the rest of the games on the road trip in terms of, you know, the quality of competition and how other teams are feeling right now, the Leafs are not feeling very good. And if you look at like the Islanders, they’re actually putting on some good performances. is obviously what happened with the Flyers last Friday. Uh the Rangers are not bad this year. Obviously the Devils are doing what they’re doing. Like you have some pretty tough opponents coming up on the road. So I think that you have an opportunity here against the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team that is not feeling good at all. They’re coming off of a uh not even coming off of it. They’re still on a fivegame losing streak right now. So you have a massive opportunity to set things right tonight. Now the Lions have been in the blender. If you look at the standings, these are two very equal teams in terms of what’s happened so far this year. So, this is going to be a very interesting game. That’s for sure. One team’s going to walk away feeling maybe a little bit better about themselves and the other team is going to be feeling pretty devastated. So, hopefully, you know, the Blues can sneak out a win in this one for the confidence of most of the players on the team, but they’re going to need big performances from the big guns tonight. They’re going to need stellar uh goalending as well. And the one thing with the Leafs that they’ve been able to do so far this year is finish. Other than that, they haven’t really been able to do anything. They haven’t been able to establish a forch check. They’re lost in the defensive zone. And of course at times it looks like the Blues are too. But I think that if the Blues are able to establish some type of offensive game and pressure in this game, they’ll be able to come out with the victory because the Leafs have not been able to weather that efficiently this year. And they’ve had no like if they can break the puck out, the Blues this is the Leafs will have no sustained pressure tonight. So we’ll see uh how it all plays out, but it starts tonight and you can really set the tone for the rest of the road trip. And I think the biggest thing is, listen, the biggest story line around this game is winning. And we’re going to get an update on a player, but there is another story line around this game tonight, Darius, and that is the fact that Justin Faulk is playing in his 1,000th game. I believe it was a 413 players, including him, will reach this milestone in NHL history. So, an insane feat. You can see the St. Louis Blues said they’re going to honor him on November 29th when they do return home. This is awesome. Listen, Justin Faul gets a lot of hate. a lot of time is deserved, but this is a veteran on this team that has been a around the NHL for quite some time with the Blues for a good stint. We see game 1000 coming through. He’s been a staple on that second pairing and a lot of people would rather see him on the third, but the biggest thing is Faulk hasn’t been having a bad season. We see the 10 points. Yes, the minus isn’t great, but what is your thoughts on Faulk playing game 1000? And do you think maybe the Vibes are getting to an alltime? Maybe this is where the Blues get a win, they get the vibes up with the 10,000th game and maybe this starts that run. I think that it could possibly do that. I think a lot of players like to rally behind, you know, milestones and stuff like this and they’ll all be amped for him. You kind of want to play, especially if you’re, you know, close as a team, which we know the Blues were, especially last year. You want to play for one another, right? So, uh, having a milestone like that, I do wonder if the team kind of rallies behind that. On the other side of things, uh this logo, by the way, because you see a bunch of 1K game logos around the league, you know, with some puns and word play. This one’s actually pretty good. So, I know it has nothing to do with the uh the on ice stuff, but I actually don’t mind this one. It actually looks good, not out of place. So, shout out to the Blues for that. But a great accomplishment for Justin Faulk. Obviously, you know, only I don’t want to say a handful of players, but in terms of the history of the game, only a couple hundred have done this. So, pretty uh pretty incredible stuff. And we’ll see if they, you know, if they’re able to rally around him tonight. And I think the biggest thing is, listen, looking at the lines, we see in the lines, Jim Montgomery once again getting the blender going. He has a full stock of them. Changing things up. We touched on a bit yesterday. We see D’vorski playing with Shen and Kyu. We see BH moved down to the third line. Holloway up with Thomas and Snuggard. I do like some of these lines. Listen, BC had to be moved down. He has not been living up to the expectations of what we wanted to see from him this season. Maderius, looking at the lineup going through once again going into this game, is there a certain line that you think is going to stand out the most tonight that fans kind of had to keep an eye on going through the game? Well, Mark, first of all, there’s been some studies made in recent years about how, you know, smoothies and stuff like that when you uh take them in, you can’t really digest them that well. So, I think Jim Montgomery, especially this year, is keeping blenders in business, the entire industry. So, uh the lines are very interesting. Once again, I mean, he’s toying with a couple things uh that we saw, you know, in practice yesterday. Uh and obviously, if you look at the last game, the lines do look a little bit different. Benevich has been pushed down to the third line. And we talked about the other day how this could be a good opportunity for him to get going a little bit and find his game again because he’ll be playing against lesser competition. Like he’ll be playing and matched up ideally against other teams, you know, third lines, fourth lines depending on the matchup, stuff like that, and how the games go. Uh but that could be a good opportunity for him to maybe, you know, send a message to him, get him going a little bit that, hey, it’s not good enough. You want to play with some good players. Again, not saying that, you know, the third line doesn’t have good players, but if you want to play on the top line again, uh you have to get going here. So, it could be a good opportunity for him. I’m looking for that first line to do some damage tonight. Like, honestly, like, uh Holloway has been, you know, he scored a goal uh last game. He needs to get going. He needs to be a little bit better in terms of point production this year. Thomas is leading the way, so that’s been good. Uh, and obviously Snugaroo has that shot. That line, we need a goal out of them tonight, right? So, that’s the thing I’m saying if I’m Jim Montgomery. So, some interesting line combinations. And then on defense, obviously Kessle’s back in the mix with Tucker. So, that’ll be interesting to see how that pairing does cuz for the most part, the rest of the pairings when you look up and down, I mean, you could put Fowler back with Pareco if you really want, but Broberg has been playing well. Uh, and even if you’re just swapping those two guys, we know what we have in those two first pairings anyway. So, uh, we’ll see how the third pairing plays, but the theme of the season has been goalending as well. The goalending needs to be good tonight. And I think the big thing is, listen, this is a blue team that has dealt with injuries. And we get an update coming on Jake Neighbors once again from Jim Montgomery. And this was kind of stemmed looking at a comment of the day. It’s a little weird. We switched it up a little bit. Talking about neighbors, you don’t want him to come in too quickly. You don’t want him back at 100%. But we get a quote from Jim Montgomery, the most gym quote possible. We expect him to be a player at some point on the trip. So getting him back on this trip, he’s not going to play tonight versus the Leafs, but the game versus the Flyers versus the Islanders. Darius, this is going to happen very soon within the next week. Do you think we see Snugroot back within the next game where we see him play the Flyers or do you rather push him back to the week after to give him more time? Make sure he’s 100%. I would agree. Right. I I think that you don’t want to rush him back. There’s no point. It’s November still. Uh make sure he’s 100%. But if he’s ready to go, he said at some point this trip, that could mean Tuesday or next week, right? like we don’t know. So, I would I would think Saturday is a good landing spot. We know he’s not going to play tonight. Maybe give him an extra day. And it also depends how today’s game goes. If you really need him back in the lineup, I could see them making that choice. But, um, make sure he’s 100%. I could see Saturday, again, I’m just speculating. I could see Saturday being the day, but maybe it’s early next week as well. And I think that’s a big thing. Listen, getting Jake Neighbors back in this lineup is going to be huge. And speaking about a goal score, we do get a goal score coming today that Logan Mayu scored his second in the AHL. Now listen, Springfield hasn’t been the hottest team, but we’re going to keep giving you little updates on Logan Mayu as he progresses to get his confidence back. But fans, what is your thoughts on all this? What is your thoughts on Jake Neighbors? What game do you think we see him back? Is it versus the Flyers, the Islanders next week, or do you rather them wait for the backtoback in the home stand? Let us know all your thoughts down in the comments. While you’re down there, leave a like, subscribe, share this with your friends. We’ll be back another episode, so keep your eye for that. I’ve been your host Mark with my co-host Derus and take care

The St. Louis Blues and Jim Montgomery give huge updates on Jake Neighbours heading into their road trip with Justin Faulk hitting 1000 games and Logan Mailloux gets on the board for the Springfield Thunderbirds. Mark Pye and Darius Domingues break down all this and more on this episode of Blues Digest.

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