St. Louis Blues (31-31-12, in the Central Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (41-29-5, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Anaheim, California; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Anaheim Ducks play the St. Louis Blues after losing three in a row.<\/p>\n
Anaheim is 23-10-3 at home and 41-29-5 overall. The Ducks have a 36-11-3 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
St. Louis is 31-31-12 overall and 13-19-5 on the road. The Blues have a 24-10-5 record in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
The teams square off Friday for the third time this season. The Blues won 4-0 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Beckett Sennecke has 22 goals and 35 assists for the Ducks. Mikael Granlund has seven goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Pavel Buchnevich has 17 goals and 27 assists for the Blues. Justin Faulk has nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Ducks: 5-3-2, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.6 assists, 4.5 penalties and 12.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blues: 6-2-2, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.6 assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.5 penalty minutes while giving up 1.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Ducks: Pavel Mintyukov: day to day (lower body), Petr Mrazek: out for season (lower-body), Jansen Harkins: out (upper body), Cutter Gauthier: out (upper body), Radko Gudas: day to day (lower-body), Ross Johnston: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Blues: Tyler Tucker: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press St. Louis Blues (31-31-12, in the Central Division) vs. Anaheim Ducks (41-29-5, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,1739,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-536234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-ducks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334149223012763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536234","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=536234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}