Re: GDT: St Louis Blues vs Buffalo - 1/9 7:00 - TV:FSMW Radio:101.1

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MattyIce wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:21 pm
Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 am Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread, do you know why Perron didn't practice?
I believe he was creating fake email addresses all morning to vote himself into the All-Star Game.
...but whatever, the Blues won the Cup!!!!!

Re: GDT: St Louis Blues vs Buffalo - 1/9 7:00 - TV:FSMW Radio:101.1

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Dave's a mess wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:32 pm
MattyIce wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:21 pm
Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:58 am Lines below are from practice yesterday. Perron should be back in. Parayko still out. JB50 starting. Long story short, same lines as last game

Dread, do you know why Perron didn't practice?
I believe he was creating fake email addresses all morning to vote himself into the All-Star Game.
Brouwer got him with that lead pipe. Brouwer for MVP!

Re: GDT: St Louis Blues vs Buffalo - 1/9 7:00 - TV:FSMW Radio:101.1

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The Sabres don't have a single piece of their return for Conn Smythe winner ROR in their lineup.

The Blues' projected lineup:

Jaden Schwartz-Brayden Schenn-Jordan Kyrou
Zach Sanford-Ryan O'Reilly-David Perron
Alexander Steen-Robert Thomas-Tyler Bozak
Mackenzie MacEachern-Ivan Barbashev-Oskar Sundqvist

Vince Dunn-Alex Pietrangelo
Jay Bouwmeester-Justin Faulk
Niko Mikkola-Robert Bortuzzo

Jordan Binnington will start in goal; Jake Allen will be the backup.

Healthy scratches will be Troy Brouwer and Jacob de la Rose. Vladimir Tarasenko (shoulder), Carl Gunnarsson (arm), Sammy Blais (wrist) and Colton Parayko (upper body) are out.

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The Sabres' projected lineup:

Rasmus Asplund-Jack Eichel-Sam Reinhart
Michael Frolik-Marcus Johansson-Conor Sheary
Zemgus Girgensons-Johan Larsson-Kyle Okposo
Jimmy Vesey-Curtis Lazar
Lawrence Pilut-Rasmus Ristolainen

Rasmus Dahlin-Colin Miller
Brandon Montour-Henri Jokiharju
Zach Bogosian

Linus Ullmark will start in goal; Carter Hutton will be the backup.

Healthy scratches include Scott Wilson and Evan Rodrigues. Victor Olofsson (lower body), Jeff Skinner (upper body), Tage Thompson (upper body), Vladimir Sobotka (lower body) and Jake McCabe (upper body) are out.
Just a Russian propaganda account

Re: GDT: St Louis Blues vs Buffalo - 1/9 7:00 - TV:FSMW Radio:101.1

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I wish the STL Post have coverage like this...nice to get a perspective from both teams, including quotes from both coaches. Props to Mike Harrington for a good pre-game article:

"ST. LOUIS – For a team desperate to get points, especially on the road, this is not the best place for the Buffalo Sabres' first game away from KeyBank Center in the new decade.

The Enterprise Center has always housed a good team and now it's the home of the defending Stanley Cup champions. And whether they've been big winners, a middle-of-the-road club or a bottom feeder, the St. Louis Blues have given the Buffalo Sabres big trouble here in the shadow of the Gateway Arch.

The Sabres are 0-5-2 in their last seven games here and have not won in St. Louis since a 5-3 victory on Dec. 27, 2009. It's one of their four worst current road droughts in the league. They've been outscored, 26-10, and been held to two goals or less in all seven games.

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SABRES CURRENT ROAD DROUGHTS
City Record Last win
Chicago 0-7-3 Jan. 10, 2007
Washington 0-6-2 Nov. 22, 2014
Dallas 0-7-0 Jan. 15, 2009
St. Louis 0-5-2 Dec. 27, 2009
Philadelphia 0-6-0 Oct. 27, 2015
****


Last season's game here was a microcosm how the season changed for both teams. When the Sabres took the ice here on Dec. 27, 2018, they were 15 points ahead of the Blues in the NHL's overall standing (47-32). The game, a 4-1 St. Louis victory, came a little more than a week before the Blues changed their season by calling up goaltender Jordan Binnington from the minor leagues.

Starting from that night they met, the teams had a 38-point turnaround – St. Louis finished with 99 en route to its eventual run to the Cup and the Sabres finished with just 76 and sent coach Phil Housley packing. St. Louis was 31-12-5 in that stretch and Buffalo went 12-28-5. Yikes."

Read more: https://buffalonews.com/2020/01/09/buff ... uis-blues/

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