(10-17-24) New York Islanders-St. Louis Blues Gameday Lineup

ST. LOUIS — Philip Broberg could not have requested for a greater begin to his St. Louis Blues profession.

After signing a two-year, $9.16 million ($4.58 million common annual worth) provide sheet from the Edmonton Oilers, the defenseman will surely have eyes positioned on him to see how his profession progresses.

Broberg will get the possibility to place his title within the Blues historical past books after they host the New York Islanders (1-1-1) at 7 p.m. at this time (BSMW, ESPN 101.1-FM).

Broberg has a four-game level streak (one purpose, three assists) to start his Blues profession and might turn into the primary Blues defenseman to increase that streak to 5.

Solely three lively defensemen have posted a degree streak of 5 video games from the beginning of their tenure with a membership within the NHL: Shayne Gostisbehere (with the Detroit Crimson Wings in 2023-24), Ty Smith (with the New Jersey Devils in 2020-21) and Cale Makar (with the Colorado Avalanche in 2019-20).

“It has been good to this point coming to this crew. I really feel assured and comfy,” Broberg mentioned. “… I believe (the offense) is all a studying expertise. It is by enjoying. You may see when you must go in, when you shouldn’t.

“It has been a fairly comfy transition from Edmonton to right here. I believe he is helped me. It has been going good to this point.”

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It is a secure assumption to make that the pairing of Broberg and Justin Faulk has been the Blues’ most constant via 4 video games.

“I believe he is a terrific participant clearly,” Broberg mentioned. “It has been good enjoying with him. He is a terrific veteran as effectively you could study from. You at all times attempt to get the chemistry going rapidly. I believe it has been good, however we simply need to hold engaged on it.”

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Nick Leddy is not going to play for the Blues tonight resulting from a lower-body harm and might be changed within the lineup by P.O. Joseph, who will play for the primary time since final Friday in a 4-3 loss towards the Vegas Golden Knights.

“Leddy’s out, so he is each day proper now with a lower-body harm and P.O. will go in for ‘Leds.’

“It isn’t about simply the one sport, however I believe [Joseph’s] general camp was actually good for us; his exhibition video games have been good. We need to get him again in there. We like his skill to skate, his size, his skill to maneuver pucks. I believe that is one thing defending-wise, we have to have the ability to kill performs.”

Ryan Suter will transfer up and play with Colton Parayko and Joseph will skate alongside Matthew Kessel.

Additionally, Kasperi Kapanen returns after being a wholesome scratch and can substitute Nathan Walker, and Joel Hofer will get the nod in web tonight. He has confronted the Islanders as soon as in his profession, a 4-2 loss on March 29 final season, stopping 29 of 32 photographs.

Alexandre Texier (upper-body harm) will miss a fourth straight sport tonight however was on the ice for an non-obligatory skate at this time.

“I believe he is getting higher. He is shut,” Bannister mentioned. “I might put him as each day. He’ll be out tonight. We’ll see how he feels tomorrow, however he is getting shut.”

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One space the Blues need to get again to is their play via the impartial zone, which lacked in a 4-1 loss towards the Minnesota Wild within the residence opener Tuesday.

“I assumed [Tuesday] we struggled,” Bannister mentioned. “Our counters, which was regarding for us. That is one thing we labored on fairly a bit right here [Wednesday]. One thing that we did not see within the first three video games, we thought we countered the puck fairly effectively. For no matter purpose, we bought away from what we did effectively, which led to not with the ability to get to a forecheck, which led to much less time within the offensive zone and getting numbers in on the puck fast. Our assist via the impartial zone needs to be quite a bit higher.”

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Blues Projected Lineup:

Brandon Saad-Robert Thomas-Jordan Kyrou

Zack Bolduc-Pavel Buchnevich-Jake Neighbours

Dylan Holloway-Brayden Schenn-Mathieu Joseph

Alexey Toropchenko-Radek Faksa-Kasperi Kapanen

Ryan Suter-Colton Parayko

Philip Broberg-Justin Faulk

P.O. Joseph-Matthew Kessel

Joel Hofer will begin in purpose; Jordan Binnington would be the backup. Wholesome scratches embody Nathan Walker and Scott Perunovich. Nick Leddy (decrease physique), Alexandre Texier (higher physique) Oskar Sundqvist (knee) and Torey Krug (ankle) are all out.

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Islanders Projected Lineup:

Anthony Duclair-Bo Horvat-Mathew Barzal

Maxim Tsyplakov-Brock Nelson-Kyle Palmieri

Anders Lee-Jean-Gabriel Pageau-Simon Holmstrom

Casey Cizikas-Kyle MacLean-Oliver Wahlstrom

Alexander Romanov-Noah Dobson

Adam Pelech-Ryan Pulock

Mike Reilly-Scott Mayfield

Ilya Sorokin will begin in purpose; Semyon Varlamov would be the backup.

Wholesome scratches embody Julien Gauthier and Dennis Cholowski. The Islanders report no accidents.

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