GDT: Blues @ Vegas | The Search for 2 Straight Wins| 8pm, FSMW|

[The Note]

When: Thursday, Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. CT
Where: T-Mobile Arena
Watch: FOX Sports Midwest, FOX Sports GO
Listen: 101 ESPN, NHL App
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*Lineups are projected*​

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Sanford-O'Reilly-Perron
Schwartz-Schenn-Kyrou
Hoffman-Thomas-(Bozak's spot)
Clifford-Barbashev-Sundqvist​

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Krug-Parayko
Scandella-Faulk
Mikkola-Dunn
Binnington​

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VS.

Pacioretty-Stephenson-Stone
Marchessault-Karlsson-Smith
Roy-Glass-Tuch
Carrier-Nosek-Reaves​

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McNabb-Pietrangelo
Martinez-Theodore
Whitecloud-Hague​

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Fluery/Lehner

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[Note Worthy]

 

[mw2noobbuster]

LETS GO BLUES! Put Stone through the glass.

 

[elkranio]

Let's get one Stone f***ed up two times.

 

[Got One Cup]

This one could get nasty. I hope we wreck a couple Knights tonight. Wouldn’t mind seeing Stone laid out but him watching it happen to a teammate works too. I love this schedule with home and away.

 

[TheGoldenGod]

Twoooohh games!

 

[The Note]

Twoooohh games!?!?

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His voice inflection in that gets me every time.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

Priority #1 - win
Priority #2 - send a message to Mark Stone

 

[Xerloris]

We need this to be a live thread. Make it live right now so we don't have to suffer tonight.

 

[TK 421]

Don't worry guys, I'm crafting a Mark Stone voodoo doll and will ask Damballah to make him suffer.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

The lack of league discipline on Stone is disappointing. The fact that the same refs are in fir this game is an interesting wrinkle of the way the scheduling works this year.

Reading the league’s response, I think what they were saying is that this hit should have been penalized more strongly within the game. Maybe should have been a major or game misconduct. I’m sure they weren’t saying the teams should handle it amongst themselves. If so, they were basically saying the refs screwed up, but we don’t think this deserves supplemental discipline.

So...if the refs got that message and a guy is out injured, and they get to ref the same two teams the next day, does it affect how they call the game? I bet it’s called pretty tight tonight.

 

[Reality Czech]

It's too bad that Bozak is out as he's pretty important on the PK, but at least it gives Berube a chance to unleash the Blais. Hopefully he's revved up and ready to go. Let's send a strong message tonight with a big win. Don't let them come back and steal the series. We've lost the 2nd game in each set so far, let's put an end to that right now.

I said it before the last game, but this Vegas team just doesn't quit. It's tough to bury them once they're down, so we really need to stay on them for all 60 minutes. And no dumb penalties, please!

I'd also like to see Sundqvist move up with Thomas and Hoffman, and let Blais play 4th line. That 3rd line needs a spark and Sunny can provide it.

 

[Vektor]

Stay out of the box and grab the first series sweep of the year. Could be a big turning point.

Oh and demolish Stone.

 

[542365]

Gotta be better than Tuesday. We can’t rely on Binnington to be incredible AND for the Knights to miss the net/hit the post half a dozen times.

I also hope we don’t go chasing hits just trying to get retribution. Faulk fought him, let’s just move on. If you have the opportunity to put him hard on his ass and not end up in the box, go for it, but that pretty much goes for every opponent. Physicality is one of our assets and we should use it liberally.

I’m sure we’ll see Reaves beat the hell out of Clifford at some point tonight. It’s as stupid as it is predictable. It doesn’t really do anything if two guys who weren’t involved in the play drop the mitts for a performance. I like the Faulk/Stone type of fights where a teammate is sticking up for his guy. Those are great. Like a couple years ago when Tarasenko beat the hell out of Matt Benning seconds after he went knee on knee with Schenn. I don’t think I’ve been to a game where the building was louder than after that. I don’t really care for goon fights. They don’t do anything for me. If I’m going to watch a planned fight I’ll just watch the UFC. Spontaneous hockey fights are the best.

 

[illinidave]

Unleash the Blais!

 

[BlueOil]

do you put in de la rose because my god who's gonna pk with bozak out? does o'ry just do the entire thing?

 

[Reality Czech]

do you put in de la rose because my god who's gonna pk with bozak out? does o'ry just do the entire thing?

It's possible, I suppose. You've got ROR, Sundqvist, Sanford, and Schwartz who've all seen lots of PK time + Barbashev, who is next in line. But it leaves us a bit thin if one of those guys is in the box. Maybe Schenn could PK if necessary, but that is the area where we will miss Bozak the most for sure.

 

[elkranio]

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Whatever is in Vegas better damn well stay with Vegas.

 

[Note Worthy]

Ugh. Great.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Ugh. Great.

Good news: we wouldn't lose the 2nd game of a 2-game series again.

 

[mike1320]

Well, f***

 

[TheDizee]

vegas is the shittiest team in the nhl

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Can't lose the 2nd game if there is no 2nd game

 

[Vektor]

Never should of played the first game. Much rather miss two games than quarantine for multiple weeks and have Blues players infected. Hurts on multiple levels