The Blues will be healthier for Tuesday night’s game vs. the Canadiens after both Oskar Sundqvist and Nick Leddy were out on Sunday against Nashville due to maintenance.
Both veterans will be back in the lineup against Montreal, as Dalibor Dvorsky and Matthew Kessel will draw back out. Sundqvist centered the third line between Alexandre Texier and Mathieu Joseph. Leddy was paired with Cam Fowler.
Forward Pavel Buchnevich remained out with what the team called an illness. He did not participate in morning skate on Tuesday.
Jordan Binnington will start in goal for the Blues.
Projected Blues lineup vs. Montreal on Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Jake Neighbours – Robert Thomas – Zack Bolduc
Dylan Holloway – Brayden Schenn – Jordan Kyrou
Alexandre Texier – Oskar Sundqvist – Mathieu Joseph
Alexey Toropchenko – Radek Faksa – Nathan Walker
Philip Broberg – Justin Faulk
Ryan Suter – Tyler Tucker
Scratches: Dalibor Dvorsky, Matthew Kessel, Pavel Buchnevich (illness), Colton Parayko (knee).
Before girls had high-level youth in St. Louis, Jincy Dunne Roese played with NHL-bound players on the boys side while developing into one of the nation’s top players.
Dvorsky finished with 10:40 of ice time on 16 shifts, including 33 seconds of power-play time.
Zack Bolduc was assessed a cross-checking major and a game misconduct for his response on Nick Blankenburg, who tried to deliver an open-ice hit on Robert Thomas late in the third period.
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