San Jose Sharks (32-31-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (29-30-11, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
St. Louis; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks look to stop a five-game skid with a victory against the St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n
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St. Louis has a 29-30-11 record overall and a 16-12-7 record on its home ice. The Blues have a 23-9-5 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
San Jose is 15-19-1 in road games and 32-31-6 overall. The Sharks have a 29-11-3 record when scoring three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Blues won 3-2 in overtime in the last matchup. Robert Thomas led the Blues with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pavel Buchnevich has 16 goals and 26 assists for the Blues. Jimmy Snuggerud has six goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Tyler Toffoli has 18 goals and 26 assists for the Sharks. Macklin Celebrini has five goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blues: 7-1-2, averaging 2.8 goals, 5.2 assists, 4.3 penalties and 10.8 penalty minutes while giving up 1.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sharks: 2-6-2, averaging 2.5 goals, 4.3 assists, 3.7 penalties and 11.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blues: Tyler Tucker: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Sharks: Ryan Reaves: out (hamd), Tyler Toffoli: out (lower-body), Ty Dellandrea: out (lower body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (32-31-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (29-30-11, in the Central Division) St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,1843,5,514,501,4,2219,531,1482,7590,519,168,534,84,5285,5284,1842,1692,24766,802,1822],"class_list":{"0":"post-521730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-central-division","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jimmy-snuggerud","12":"tag-macklin-celebrini","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-pacific-division","15":"tag-pavel-buchnevich","16":"tag-robert-thomas","17":"tag-ryan-reaves","18":"tag-san-jose","19":"tag-san-jose-sharks","20":"tag-st-louis","21":"tag-st-louis-blues","22":"tag-stlouis","23":"tag-stlouisblues","24":"tag-the-blues","25":"tag-the-sharks","26":"tag-ty-dellandrea","27":"tag-tyler-toffoli","28":"tag-tyler-tucker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116288840328808286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}