After a disappointing 3-2 Colorado Avalanche loss happened on Sunday in Denver against the Blues, the teams head east to complete the home-and-home in St. Louis. Colorado will once again have the opportunity to clinch the top seed in the West while St. Louis desperately needs a win to keep their playoff hopes alive.<\/p>\n
The home stretch of the regular season hasn\u2019t been as kind to the Avalanche as they\u2019d like but the squad has won their last five road games. This rematch sets up in favor of the Avalanche for that reason plus they\u2019ve been able to serve up revenge for a loss all season.<\/p>\n
One lineup question is Val Nichushkin who sat out the Sunday game with an upper-body injury. It\u2019s not considered serious, more just managing bumps and bruises but it\u2019s possible he remains out and Zakhar Bardakov takes his place again.<\/p>\n
Artturi Lehkonen — Nathan MacKinnon — Martin Necas<\/p>\n
Gabriel Landeskog — Brock Nelson — Valeri Nichushkin<\/p>\n
Ross Colton — Nazem Kadri — Logan O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n
Parker Kelly — Jack Drury — Joel Kiviranta<\/p>\n
Devon Toews — Sam Malinski<\/p>\n
Brett Kulak — Josh Manson<\/p>\n
Nick Blankenburg — Brent Burns<\/p>\n
St. Louis is certainly hoping for a repeat performance from their leading scorer Robert Thomas who crafted a hat trick against the Avalanche on Sunday. With 78 points the Blues are still on the outside looking in position in the Western Conference wild card race but are still taking their recent winning streak as far as they can.<\/p>\n
Dylan Holloway — Robert Thomas — Jimmy Snuggerud<\/p>\n
Jake Neighbours — Pavel Buchnevich — Jordan Kyrou<\/p>\n
Otto Stenberg — Dalibor Dvorsky — Jonatan Berggren<\/p>\n
Alexey Toropchenko — Jack Finley — Pius Suter<\/p>\n
Philip Broberg — Logan Mailloux<\/p>\n
Theo Lindstein — Colton Parayko<\/p>\n
Cam Fowler — Justin Holl<\/p>\n
Considering Joel Hofer has been backstopping most of the Blues\u2019 recent success it would make sense that he gets the net again in a must-win game. For the Avalanche, after Mackenzie Blackwood didn\u2019t get the win over the weekend, it\u2019s probably Scott Wedgewood\u2019s turn in net for this contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a disappointing 3-2 Colorado Avalanche loss happened on Sunday in Denver against the Blues, the teams head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,29254,3597,5,4,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-546190","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-colorado-avalanche-game-coverage","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche-previews","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-st-louis","14":"tag-st-louis-blues","15":"tag-stlouis","16":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116365374484986167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546190","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=546190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}