4:07 pm
February 15

Blues @ Coyotes

Who will WIN this matchup?

St. Louis Blues (9-4-2)

@ Arizona Coyotes (6-6-2)

 

Starting Goalies:

Jordan Binnington (STL): Unconfirmed

Darcy Kuemper (ARI): Unconfirmed

 

Current odds:

St. Louis Blues: (-130)

Arizona Coyotes: (+110)

 

• The Arizona Coyotes and St. Louis Blues will play the rubber match of their unique seven-game regular-season series Monday afternoon in Glendale, Ariz. The Coyotes and Blues are in the midst of their lengthy series against each other due to COVID-19 postponements elsewhere in the NHL. Both teams earned seven points over the first six games. The Coyotes won three times, including once in a shootout. The Blues won three times, including their 5-4 overtime victory Saturday in Gila River Arena.

The Blues extended their road winning streak to five games by winning twice on this trip to Arizona. “Two wins is nice,”  Mike Hoffman said. “It would be nice to go home with the third one as well.” Hoffman (four goals, two assists), Ryan O’Reilly (four goals, three assists) and David Perron (one goal, five assists) have led the Blues’ offensive charge against the Coyotes.

The Coyotes have enjoyed strong production from their top offensive line of Conor Garland (three goals, four assists), Nick Schmaltz (three goals, three assists) and Clayton Keller (two goals, three assists) in this series. Arizona has played stride for stride with the Blues during the series. Saturday’s game could have gone either way, just like the others in the series.

Both teams made lineup changes from game to game in the series for varying reasons. The Blues lost forward Robert Thomas for several weeks with a broken thumb. He has joined forwards Tyler Bozak and Vladimir Tarasenko on long-term injured reserve. Forward Jaden Schwartz missed Saturday night’s game with a lower-body injury.

Coyotes defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson missed Saturday’s game with an upper-body injury. Johan Larsson will sit out Monday while serving the second half of two-game suspension by the NHL for delivering a high hit on Blues forward Zach Sanford.

The Blues will almost certainly go back to No. 1 goaltender Jordan Binnington (7-2-2, 2.50 goals-against average) in net for this game after starting backup Ville Husso on Saturday.

The Coyotes could return to Darcy Kuemper (4-6-1, 2.46 GAA) after starting Antti Raanta on Saturday. Kuemper has a .918 save percentage in his four starts against the Blues this season.

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St. Louis Blues
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