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
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\u2019s 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
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","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":430459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[2617,37676,5,514,14863,1282,4,292,531,1482,7590,519,168,5306,5305,1780,43,534,84,802,1822],"class_list":["post-522777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose-sharks","tag-california","tag-data-skrive","tag-hockey","tag-jimmy-snuggerud","tag-missouri","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-pavel-buchnevich","tag-robert-thomas","tag-ryan-reaves","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sanjose","tag-sanjosesharks","tag-sharks","tag-sports","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-tyler-toffoli","tag-tyler-tucker"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116292221005165772","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522777","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=522777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}