{"id":539482,"date":"2026-04-04T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539482\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T01:05:17","slug":"projected-lineup-april-3-at-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539482\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: April 3 at Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blues Head Coach Jim Montgomery said\u00a0 &#8220;there are going to be changes&#8221; if the team failed to have success on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n<p>After a 2-1 overtime loss to Los Angeles, Montgomery is sticking to his word.<\/p>\n<p>In his pregame media availability at Honda Center, Montgomery confirmed the following changes:<\/p>\n<p>IN<br \/>Jonathan Drouin<br \/>Oskar Sundqvist<br \/>Nathan Walker<br \/>Tyler Tucker<\/p>\n<p>OUT<br \/>Pavel Buchnevich<br \/>Alexey Toropchenko<br \/>Jack Finley<br \/>Justin Holl<\/p>\n<p>With Buchnevich, Montgomery\u00a0said it&#8217;s a &#8220;maintenance thing&#8221; with back to back games coming up against Colorado. &#8220;We want to make sure he&#8217;s at his best for those to games,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The puck drops at 9 p.m. CT on Friday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\/news\/blues-partner-with-fanduel-sports-network-gray-media-to-simulcast-select-games\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FanDuel Sports Network, First Alert 4, Matrix Midwest and 101 ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PROJECTED LINEUP<\/p>\n<p>Forwards<\/p>\n<p>Dylan\u00a0Holloway &#8211; Robert Thomas\u00a0&#8211; Jimmy Snuggerud<br \/>Jonathan Drouin &#8211; Dalibor Dvorsky &#8211; Jordan Kyrou<br \/>Jake Neighbours &#8211; Pius Suter\u00a0&#8211; Jonatan Berggren<br \/>Otto Stenberg &#8211; Oskar Sundqvist &#8211; Nathan Walker<\/p>\n<p>Defense<\/p>\n<p>Philip Broberg &#8211; Logan Mailloux<br \/>Theo Lindstein &#8211; Colton Parayko<br \/>Cam Fowler &#8211; Tyler Tucker<\/p>\n<p>Goalie<\/p>\n<p>Joel Hofer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blues Head Coach Jim Montgomery said\u00a0 &#8220;there are going to be changes&#8221; if the team failed to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-kings","12":"tag-lakings","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleskings","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116343755846515640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539482","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=539482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}