ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues will be missing two forwards for the foreseeable future, the team announced Monday.

Jimmy Snuggerud will have surgery on his left wrist and be re-evaluated in six weeks. Meanwhile, Alexey Toropchenko suffered “scalding” burns to his legs in a home accident and is considered week to week.

Aleksanteri Kaskimaki, who was the Blues’ third-round pick (No. 72) in 2022, has been recalled from AHL Springfield. The 21-year-old has four goals and seven points with Springfield this season.

Snuggerud, 21, has played all 26 Blues games this season and has five goals and 11 points. He’s played on the top line most of the season, most recently with Robert Thomas and Jake Neighbours.

Toropchenko, 26, has played in 17 of the 26 games and has one goal and two points. A regular on the fourth line, Toropchenko missed seven games earlier in the season with both lower- and upper-body injuries. He was also a healthy scratch for two games.

No other information is known about Toropchenko’s incident.

What does it mean?

This is a significant blow for the Blues, who have won two straight games for just the second time this season.

Snuggerud has no points in his past eight games and just one goal and three points in his last 15 games, but he’s been a noticeable presence on the ice. He averages the seventh-most ice time per game among forwards (15:27), and in Saturday’s 1-0 win over the Utah Mammoth, he provided the drive to the net that kept Mammoth goalie Karel Vejmelka honest on Dylan Holloway’s shot for the only goal of the game.

Toropchenko hasn’t produced much, but Blues coach Jim Montgomery recently complimented him for his tenacious work on the forecheck. The fourth line has been the team’s best trio this season. The club can perhaps withstand this injury somewhat more easily thanks to depth players such as Nathan Walker, Mathieu Joseph, Nick Bjugstad and now Kaskimaki.

What could the lines look like? With Pius Suter not skating at practice Monday, still out with a lower-body injury, it looks like Kaskimaki could draw in. Here’s where he could fit:

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Jake Neighbours

Robert Thomas

Jordan Kyrou

Brayden Schenn

Dalibor Dvorsky

Pavel Buchnevich

Dylan Holloway

Nick Bjugstad

Mathieu Joseph

Nathan Walker

Oskar Sundqvist

Aleksanteri Kaskimaki

— Jeremy Rutherford

Wheeler’s Kaskimaki scouting report

Kaskimaki is a player I’ve always had a soft spot for and have enjoyed watching.

In his draft year, he was one of the top forwards in Finland’s junior league and a first-line player at U18 worlds. His post-draft season was a bit slow as he tried to find his spot in the pro team and national team lineups, though it was a credit to him that he made the Finnish World Juniors team at 18, and he did play well for HIFK in the Liiga playoffs that year. Two seasons ago, he established himself as an everyday pro player, scoring 10 goals in Liiga and a couple of big goals at his second World Juniors in Gothenburg, including a huge one in the final minutes to give the Finns the 3-2 lead and the win in the quarters.

After signing and coming to the AHL as a rookie last season, he played well (though he did taper off) as a 20-year-old.

Against his peers over the years, Kaskimaki has shown he can attack and create with the puck on his stick, regularly racking up gaudy shot totals at lower levels. His hands can flash. When he gets an opportunity, whether that’s being left alone in the slot or a defender making a mistake, he’s got the skill to make plays or finish. He’s decently strong for his size (6 feet) and works hard to be at the center of the action.

But he’s also one of those classic case studies where he’s really going to have to hit a lot of checkpoints to become an offensive use-case player, and he’s probably not going to be a role player, even though he has been used in defensive/penalty-killing minutes at times at lower levels. He has hit one of those checkpoints with his first call-up. I do wonder if he will top out as a call-up option, but he should fit in fine.

— Scott Wheeler