The St. Louis Blues are in Nashville tonight to take on the Predators at Bridgestone Arena. Ryan Miller will get the start in goal for the Blues while Pekka Rinne is set to start for the Preds.
Patrik Berglund will play tonight after sustaining a lower body injury in the last game against the Edmonton Oilers. Brenden Morrow will play tonight after sitting out the last game. Magnus Paajarvi exits the line up with a upper body injury.
The Blues will try and continue their dominance against central division tonight by extending their 18-0-2 record with a win tonight in Nashville.
The Blues currently hold the top spot in the NHL, and look to improve on their 7-2-1 record in their last ten games, while Nashville is trying to get out of a current slide that has them boasting a 4-5-1 record in their last ten.
Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz look to continue their impressive seasons, as both of the Blues young guns registered their 20th goals of the season last game against Edmonton.
Vladimir Sobotka looks to carry his impressive return into tonight's bout. A goal and two assists in his return from injury lead him to the number one star against the Oilers on Thursday night.
Ryan Miller, holding a 5-0-1 record since being acquired by the Blues looks to extend his record as well. Having not lost a game in regulations since joining the Blues, He's showing off a goals against average of under two and a save percentage over .920, very impressive for the newest Blues goalie. We're still awaiting his new goalie mask, which is said to have a little Curtis "Cujo" Joseph touch to it.
Derek Roy will be a healthy scratch tonight with Patrik Berglund and Chris Porter are in the line up tonight.
Alexander Steen is one goal away from his 30th of the season. He's never hit the 30 goal mark in his career. Steen currently sits at 52 points, which is his career high.
Vladimir Sobotka is closing in on a new career high in goals, assists, and points. He's matched his career high with eight goals, he's two assists away from his career high of 22 assists, and is just one point away from 29, which would match his career high.
T.J. Oshie's assist in the Edmonton game has helped him surpass a career high of 35 assists in a season. He's two goals and one point away from a new career high.
Alex Pietrangelo is just two assists shy of his career high of 39 assists.
Jay Bouwmeester continues his impressive iron man streak, which has surpassed 700 games. He currently boasts the longest iron man streak in all of professional sports. Bouwmeester is sitting at 32 points on the season, and is looking to break the 40 point plateau by the end of the year. The Blues already have two defenders with 40 points (Pietrangelo and Shattenkirk) which leads the league. Bouwmeester could eventually be the Blues fourth defender to his 40 points this season.