ST. Louis – The Blues de Saint-Louis Stay without victory in the pre-season after falling in their first home game, 4-2 against the Chicago Blackhawks at the Enterprise Center on Saturday.
The Blues (0-2-1) sailed along, leading 2-0 after two periods before the Blackhawks (1-1-0), playing mainly a younger alignment with few experienced players in the NHL, rallied to score four times during the third period, three of which on the Will Cranley backup.
The Blues accepted the conditions with defender Cam Fowler, who played 25:25 on Saturday and had a decisive pass, to a three-year contract extension which will maintain him in St. Louis throughout the 2028-29 season, but a certain number of veterans played their first match on Saturday.
Dalibor Dvorsky and Brayden SCHENN scored the goals for St. Louis, whose new uniforms at home are Kick-A **.
Here are some observations of players’ performance (at least through two periods):
* Dalibor Dvorsky – I thought that the choice of first round in 2023 (n ° 10 in total) was perhaps the best blues player of the night.
Not only did Dvorsky scored a nasty and nasty goal using the blackhawks defender Louis Crevier, as a screen and perhaps caught a surprised Spencer, but Dvorsky was also defensively responsible and out of the washer. This is something he knows he has to work to become a more complete player.
“Each player is great at this level,” said Dvorsky. “I just have to be ready all the time. I just have to learn to play the system well enough. I’m just trying to do my best at each game.”
Associate coach Steve Ott liked what he saw.
“Speaking of these first two periods, I thought that his game was much stronger,” said Ott. “He continues to grow up in the camp. He is an exciting player. He had a lot of good possession of a washer, strong pieces and his growth continues to excel as this camp continued.”
Regarding his goal?
“First, ‘Peki’ (Juraj Pekarcik) gave me an excellent pass,” said Dvorsky, “what it was a difficult pass. Happy that it went through and then I had one against one with the ‘d’ and I just entered.”
* Jordan Binnington – Coupons in pursuit of the prosecution: N ° 50 is ready for the season to start.
He stopped the 16 shots he faced for two periods, some of which are tight.
This is the second consecutive solid start for Binnington, which only granted one goal on 31 shots in four periods covering two action games.
We do not need to enter a sort of long soliloque here; He is ready.
* Juraj Pekarcik – It was the first pre-season game for choosing the third round in 2023 after missing a week’s camp with a shoulder illness.
Pekarcik played on a line with Dvorsky and the choice of first round in 2025 Justin Carbonneau and finished with 1:10 pm Ice time with three strokes and two gifts, one in which it will be shown the video of a dangerous reversal without a look that was returned to the defensive zone.
He had a clever movement on the net using a toe-drag and a turnaround happening in the slit that was right next to the brand and needed a stick on it. Not a bad performance for a skater at destination probably of the American Hockey League Springfield.
* Logan Mailloux – I didn’t have Mailloux on my Bingo card for a fight, but the 22 -year -old dropped the gloves with Colton Dach after providing a clean check to Sam Lafferty in the defensive area.
Another player we know can perform offensively, Mailloux continues to focus on his defensive game and has made great game breaks. He used his size and sticks to his advantage once again, playing 18:59 with five shooting attempts and three strokes.
* Will Cranley – It was not a good night to save Binnington on Saturday.
He entered the third period by holding an advance of 2-0, an advance which lasted halfway through the final stanza before the brakes stand out.
Cranley gave three goals on nine shots, including the first and second goals 27 seconds apart, the second who equaled the 2-2 match that Cranley played a puck behind the net.
He is sure to say that he will be part of the cuts on Sunday.
* Justin Carbonneau – The choice of the first round in 2025 was not as visible as it was in the first three pre-season games when he scored one goal and helped another.
He played 13:38 in the match and had a shot on goal and two attempts to shoot, but also committed two penalties, one, a minor 200 feet from his net and jumped on the ice prematurely, which led to too many men on the ice.
Carbonneau said goodbye to what will one day be his future blues teammates one day and will go to QMJHL on Sunday. It was a great experience for the 18 -year -old young man, but it is obvious that another year in Junior can be the best for his long -term growth.
* Adam Jiricek – I did not think that the choice of the first round in 2024 had a match as strong as him against the Jacques Bleues Columbus Last week.
Jiricek, who played 17:13, had only one attempt to shoot after being concentrated on the funnel and the shooting of the Blue Line washers during his beginnings of pre-season, had some turnover in zone D which could have caused dangerous situations.
It didn’t seem to be a clean game for him.
* Listen to what Blues Players and OTT had to say after the match, including Fowler on his three -year contract extension:
(Updated): St. Louis Blues, Cam Fowler accepts the terms on a three -year extension
ST. Louis – Cam Fowler remains on site.
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