ST. Louis – The
Blues de Saint-Louis won their first pre-season victory with a decisive victory 7-1 against the Ottawa senators Thursday at Enterprise Center.
The Blues (1-3-1) entered the match of the two teams without pre-season victory, and coach Jim Montgomery made it mentioned earlier in the day after the morning, taking it on this subject.
They certainly obtained it, despite the senators (2-3-0) providing only a handful of experienced NHL players, including St. Louisan Brady Tkachuk.
“In many ways, there were parts of our game where we played in the north, the way we stretched the ice, passing offensively,” said Montgomery. “I didn’t like our transition on the transition so much. We have given too many Rushs Odd-man that fortunately our defenders have managed well and “binner” made a lot of backups.
Five Blues had several points, including defender Philip Broberg, who managed two goals and a decisive pass; Robert Thomas had a goal and two assists; Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and a decisive pass and Jimmy Snuggerud and Nick Bjugstad each collected two assists.
“I think we had a good training camp and I think we have played fairly well today,” said Broberg. “I am delighted that the season begins.”
Here are the observations this evening:
* Jordan Binnington no longer needs work; He is ready for October 9 –
It is the third consecutive departure that Binnington looks sharp razor.
He was again a wall, this time playing his first full-season full game after being two in the first match against the Dallas stars (A 2-1 loss of shooting) And A loss of 4-2 against Chicago Blackhawksallowing a single combined goal in these matches.
Binnington played seven periods on three pre-season games and will finish with an average of 0.86 goals and a saving percentage of 0.973.
The senators pointed to Binnington with 37 shots and he stopped 36, and by making a number of these judgments, even the high dangers are easy.
“It was fun tonight in this atmosphere, at home, we scored goals, played hard,” said Binnington. “Delighted to get a victory.
“I feel good at the moment. It’s just pre-season, a long way to go, but I’m just trying to focus on my process. This is where my head is. ”
* Logan Mailloux is ready for the NHL – Sometimes you must have a thorough look at a young child, in particular the one who is raw and who was part of a hockey job in which the blues were to sacrifice one of their good, young players.
The blues wanted to bring someone they could build on their blue line that accompanied a good pedigree.
Logan Mailoux seems to adapt to the room, and each time inserted into the range, he has successfully tested.
Mailoux had a decisive pass and was a more 2 in 22:50 of the time of ice with three attempts to shoot and three strokes. He had a gift, but when he was put under constraint against an aggressive pre-breakage of Ottawa in this match, the 22-year-old managed to stay calm and make the right readings and the right games to transition rings on the ice. He used his stick again to break the games.
“I was really satisfied with his abilities with the way he skates, how he played games, he is a very confident offensive defender, and I did not know how much he defended with his stick,” said Montgomery. “I saw areas this evening that we will have to continue working with him, but you expect this. When you start looking at your players more and more, you get used to them. You start to see obviously the positive points. There are so many positive points with him.
“He is a young defender. He will play his first year full -time in the League, and there will be areas that we will have to work with him. We will see them as they are developing. He was a dominant player in the American League (hockey) and we know that he will be that in the NHL, but there will be growth pains, just like any player.”
When asked if he was ready for NHL, Montgomery said: “He’s ready. He’s ready to be an NHL player.”
* BRUBERG has the ability to be an offensive defender – Broberg’s two goals flew over a pair of varieties.
The first which put the blues in advance 5-0 at 16:32 of the second period was on a pass from Thomas, and Broberg showed calm and balance for senators upstream Leevi Merilainen to return to the house.
And then 27 seconds later at 4:59 p.m., Broberg recognizes a chance to jump on the other side and take the pass of Buchnevich in the left circle and tear a top shelf:
Broberg, who collected 29 points (eight goals, 21 assists) in 68 games last season and was a plus 21 – all career summits.
“I want to improve offensively for sure,” said Broberg. “I always want to be defensively responsible and to be a double -meaning guy. I want to improve every day and try to take action. ”
* The upper line had the chance to shine and did it – For the second time this pre-season, the Blues had the opportunity to present the Buchnevich-Thomas-Snuggerud line and he combined for seven points (two goals, five assists) overnight.
“Their transitional game was first -rate and everyone has the ability to shoot, make Pinpoint passes and play at a first order pace.
“Really explosive tonight, dynamic,” said Montgomery. “Always a little too carefree, the washer trying to force too much.
Snuggerud is known as a shooter, but he picks up the loose change of a Miss by Justin Faulk and finds Thomas before for the arrival at 3-0 at 7:37 of the first:
“He’s a great player,” said Thomas about Snuggerud. “Obviously, he has a big blow, but when he has the puck on his stick, he likes to make movements, he likes to pass, he sees the ice very well. There are no longer only shooters. He can do a lot of good things there.”
* Blues use their opportunities to burst with extensible passes –
Mathieu Joseph and Oskar Sundqvist obtained the blues on the table Thursday, Joseph marking on a breakaway at 3:53 of the first for an advance 1-0, and Sundqvist, which does it 2-0 at 5:59 am, but these pieces came out of things that the blues like and want to do: the breakdown of the ice quickly with the wingers so that the D-Men can find them in transition.
“As soon as we know that we are going to get possession, that we can make examples like this, which are like (Jordan) Kyrou (in the second period), it was a happy breakaway, just like the goal Joseph. come to you.
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The blues close the pre-season on Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks, a match in which they will take many of their Springfield players to play, and Colten Ellis, the backup of Binnington on Thursday, is likely to start in this match.
