ARE YOU READY?!?!!?

BLUES VS. BLUE JACKETS
When: Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. CT
Where: Enterprise Center in St. Louis, MO
Watch: Bally Sports Midwest, Bally Sports app
Listen: 101 ESPN, Blues app

A top 5 uniform in this league versus a bottom 5

Projected Blues lineup:
Saad-O'Reilly-Kyrou
Buchnevich-Thomas-Tarasenko
Neighbours-Schenn-Barbashev
Toropchenko-Acciari-Walker

Leddy-Parayko
Krug-Faulk
Mikkola-Bortuzzo

Binnington

Projected foe lineup: Laine on IR

Johnny Gaudreau - Boone Jenner - Justin Danforth
Yegor Chinakhov - Jack Roslovic - Jakub Voracek
Gustav Nyquist - Cole Sillinger - Kent Johnson
Eric Robinson - Sean Kuraly - Mathieu Olivier

Zach Werenski - Adam Boqvist
Vladislav Gavrikov - Andrew Peeke
Jake Bean - Erik Gudbranson

Elvis Merzlikins OR Daniil Tarasov - Tarasov played last night

Lets get fired up! Lets enjoy some good ole Hawkey

Let's fucking gooooooo!

Still swooning over those forward lines. Can't pick a favorite of the top 3, and Toropchenko making it back for opener on 4th line is a hell of a nice treat.

Dave's a mess wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:43 am Let's fucking gooooooo!

Still swooning over those forward lines. Can't pick a favorite of the top 3, and Toropchenko making it back for opener on 4th line is a hell of a nice treat.

That top 9 can match up with anyone in hockey. I think the 2nd line will end up the Blues best line but that 3rd line is going to be fun to watch! All of this of course until the team has one off game and the lines jumble all around haha

5'9 Walker standing next to 6'6 The Russian Torpedo should be a sight to see

I'm ready to get this show on the road, finally. I'm guessing that since some moron thought NHL hockey would be fun to play 10 time zones away is why we're waiting. Since two teams were there, two team here had to sit on their hands waiting. I could rant on, but I just want to see the Blues playing games that almost count. lol. Let the 82 game playoff positioning tourney begin.

Waking up the Pork-O-Lator, now ... Baby- Backs going about 1:30 ... LET'S GO BLUES!!!

Turk Sanderson wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:26 am Waking up the Pork-O-Lator, now ... Baby- Backs going about 1:30 ... LET'S GO BLUES!!!

Blues by a million!

Turk Sanderson wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:26 am Waking up the Pork-O-Lator, now ... Baby- Backs going about 1:30 ... LET'S GO BLUES!!!

I'm no fan of CBJ, but damn, Turk's not even giving them a fighting chance. Johnny Hockey doesn't have any idea what's about to hit him!

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:50 am

Dave's a mess wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:43 am Let's fucking gooooooo!

Still swooning over those forward lines. Can't pick a favorite of the top 3, and Toropchenko making it back for opener on 4th line is a hell of a nice treat.

That top 9 can match up with anyone in hockey. I think the 2nd line will end up the Blues best line but that 3rd line is going to be fun to watch! All of this of course until the team has one off game and the lines jumble all around haha

5'9 Walker standing next to 6'6 The Russian Torpedo should be a sight to see

Agreed on all counts, but its funny we're almost sleeping on a line with ROR flanked by a couple rockets.

Let's Go Blues! Win this opener in convincing fashion! By 4 or 5 goals! Start the season off, right!

LETS GO BLUES!

LETS GO BLUES!

bumping back to top for Robb. TC can we get this pinned?

Blues starting the season off in the beautiful blue jersey

Alright Leddy, time for you to make a fool of me

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:30 pm bumping back to top for Robb. TC can we get this pinned?

THANKS! But there are no interesting other threads that might tempt me to stray to between periods and forget to return.

Nice to see that Toropchenko recovered quickly enough to make the opening night lineup!

Bad choice by Leddy to send a pass up the opposite boards when it wasn't certain that a Blue could beat out the nearer Jacket player.

Blues PP picks up right where it left off last year. BUUUUUUUUCH!!

Great find by Krug

Robb_K wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:10 pm

Dread_Pirate_Westley wrote: Sat Oct 15, 2022 6:30 pm bumping back to top for Robb. TC can we get this pinned?

THANKS! But there are no interesting other threads that might tempt me to stray to between periods and forget to return.

I'll work on that. Haha

Buchnevich! First goal of the season.

Beautiful shot by Buchnevich on a perfect pass by Krug!!! Krug looked away and then passed quickly! Blues lead 1-0, on the PP goal!!!

My first instinct was to pick Buchnevich for The Blues' first goal this season, but my heart made me change my prediction to Vladdy. Maar alles goede!

The video:

Blues are simply faster than these guys. They can’t let CBJ weather the storm, keep pushing!

The Jackets are playing really well in The Neutral Zone, choking Blues attempts to enter their O-Zone. Binnington doesn't look sharp. But The Blues got a couple good shots off by Barbashev, and some nice work by Neighbours.