ST. Louis – Dylan Holloway scored twice, but the Blues de Saint-Louis are now without victory in four pre-season games after a 5-3 defeat against the Dallas stars at the Enterprise Center on Tuesday.
Philip Bruberg also scored and Jordan Kyrou helped the two Holloway goals during his pre-season debut; Pius Suter also made his Blues debut and had a assist, and Joel Hofer was the Blues’ first goalkeeper to play an entire pre-season match; He made 25 stops.
The blues fell at 0-3-1 and will host the Ottawa senators Thursday in their last pre-season game at home before finishing against the Chicago Blackhawks SATURDAY.
Here are some game observations:
* Holloway is ready for October 9 – Cut in pursuit. Holloway is ready for October 9 when the blues open the regular season against the Minnesota Wild.
When this guy told me that he wanted to be one of the best players in the league, there was a reason.
Not only did Holloway scored twice on Tuesday, but just watching the match, his attention to details at the moment seems to be a virgin. And there is a reason, according to the Blues coach Jim Montgomery.
“What you like in him is his second and third effort on the washers,” said Montgomery. “I said it a few times last year, it is an effort league from the second and third and it is relentless on the washers. This is why it offers rings. This is why everyone wants to play with him. If I had to ask someone in our team,” who want on your line? “It is going to be one of the names that appear because you know that you are going to get the puck, you know that you are going to get offensive opportunities because it is relentless, and I think it brings us very good energy and a very good role model on the way you have to play.”
The Holloway’s stick always seemed to be in the right place, he will have more opportunities on the penalty of the penalty this year, his jostling and jumping on the rings is unparalleled, and he never gives up a game. This is what he showed previously, and he did it again in a pre-season game devoid of meaning by playing as if he were still winning a job.
“He’s just in good shape, he can manage a lot of ice,” said Montgomery. “Being able to make him PK, we can make him go up in 18, 19 minutes per night, what the way he continues to develop is the kind of ice time that he is demanding at the moment with his game.”
* SUTER looked solid between Holloway, Kyrou – This is the first time that this pre-season since the coach staff have been able to have auction between these two wingers that they played in a match and each ended a plus-1.
SUTER (16:24) led the Trio ice time, with Kyrou (16:07) and Holloway (15:59).
Holloway led the blues with six of their 24 shots on goal on nine attempts and scored two beauties.
His first reduced the stars’ advance to 2-1 to 12:56 of the first:
His second made a match at a 4-3 goal on a beautiful donation with Kyrou at 1:07 pm from the third period:
But the fact that playing against a loaded Dallas range, one of the main lines of the blues in the season was not entered on the defensive. They seemed to be quite often on the same wavelength.
“I thought it was pretty good,” said Montgomery about the line. “Obviously, they scored the two goals, but in addition to the two goals, I did not think they were giving up so much and I thought they were continuing to support themselves very well.”
* Kaskimaki is a washer dog – An attacker under the radar continues to be a third round choice in 2022, Aleksanteri Kaskimaki, who was more 1 in 15:04 in the match on Tuesday.
I can better describe Kaskimaki as a washer dog, someone who does not give up a room either.
“I try to show my competition and my skills in zone O and the 200 -foot game,” said Kaskimaki. “If you compare (the training camp) at last year, I feel like I have a little more time there on the ice.”
Kaskimaki patinated with Dalibor Dvorsky and Alexey Toropchenko on Tuesday.
“His conscience without the washer mainly,” said Montgomery about Kaskimaki’s play. “He really showed that his defensive side of the game is really good. He’s almost too sure. I understand. He doesn’t want to give up much. I imagine it has been well trained in the past.
“He seems to be a washer dog on the washers, and he is always on the right side, so he always seems to be in good position to manage the rings.”
* Skinner argues a case for himself – Montgomery mentioned several times how he had noticed the game of defender Hunter Skinner and the choice of fourth round in 2019 by the New York Rangers which was acquired in the trade of February 9, 2023 which sent Vladimir Tarasenko and Niko Mikkola to the Rangers makes things very interesting for this seventh defensive position.
“I feel much better,” said Skinner. “Try to prove that I can play and put my best foot forward this year, hoping for an opportunity. I just make my head down, continue to work, to crush it hoping for an opportunity.
Furthermore, focus on my game. I think I’m worrying about playing physique, playing my game, making shots, playing hard. »»
Skinner played 18:28 and succeeded two shots on goal with four strokes despite being a less-2 when the two goals against the Partner Leo Loof skates.
“I like how said it is,” said Montgomery. “I think he had a good training camp. He asserts himself physically, he asserts himself by taking time and space. He is not afraid to hang on to the washers and play, so that confidence is pleasant to see with a young defender. »»
Should Matthew Kessel look over his shoulder? I would like.
* BRUBERG – After which Montgomery said he did not think that Broberg had his best first period, the high -level defender of this match, playing with Justin Faulk, asserted himself well and scored the beauty of a goal. In the second at 15:24 to equalize the 2-2 match.
He came after Dvorsky won a confrontation, Broberg removed the washer of the left wall, gave Casey Desmith a small false pump as if he came with the front of the net just to freeze the stars goalkeeper long to reach an enveloping goal:
Broberg was a plus-1 in 21:03 from Ice Time.
“I think he is really starting to understand how gifted he is as a sports hockey player,” said Montgomery. “What I really liked was that I did not think” Broby “had the best first period, but he replied in the game, found his game and became dominant in the second period and I thought he was good in the third. It is because there were many times last year, and I thought he started to do it at the end of the season last year, but when he would have a time of trigger, he would put himself on himself, and I could see him talk to himself this evening. He said to himself as a good player tonight. It is a very good sign of a young pro becoming a better pro. »»
* Verdict Lucic still there – It was the second pre-season match for Milan Lucic, who is in the training camp on a professional test.
The 37-year-old man equal to Loof and Mathieu Joseph for a top of five strokes in 13:58, his second pre-season match after playing on September 21 against the Jacques Bleues Columbus.
“Personally, feeling better overall,” said Lucic. “I felt like I had done good things, especially on the base.
“Having a good practice yesterday just helped me with my confidence. Even more, there is still this first match. I almost felt like a recruit, the agitation and being nervous and just as I was this first match in Columbus. I felt a little more comfortable, but I have more and I will have a chance to prove that.”
Lucic was in the groin a week ago on Tuesday and missed the next three days of training and did not play last Saturday against the Blackhawks, but was back on the practice of ice on Monday. He patinated on a line with Joseph and Alexandre Texier.
“I thought he had patinated much better,” said Montgomery. “I thought he was around the washer, I thought he had provoked disruptive games. The next two games with the occasion, he will be able to do more. We have to see more with the puck, but we know that he is capable of it. It was good to see him have a good game.”
* See you, Leo – It was a difficult game for Loof, the choice of third round of the blues. He played a physical game, but his skating was not always there, and his positioning in front of his net remained a little to be desired.
The stars scored two goals that carved in Loof’s skates, including one by the former Blue Radek Faka at the end of the second period.
Loof played 6:06 pm and had a shot to go with a top of five strokes, but her days are probably numbered and will return to Springfield in a short time.
* Texier does not help his cause – For someone who plays for his work, he simply was not there for Texier, who played 15:22 and experienced two gifts in the game.
The blues tried the choice of second round 2017 an opportunity in Wing and at the center, but it was simply too non -existent in the game, and on the defensive level, it must be there if the offensive game does not work, and I did not think it was good without the washer either.
The blues will have to make a decision early enough, and there are younger attackers (Kaskimaki, Dvorsky, Otto Stenberg) and Lucic who would like to grasp one of these end jobs.
* Dvorsky needed this “IT” game – The training camp was strong enough for Dvorsky, choice n ° 10 of the NHL 2023 draft, but for him to really overthrow a job in the training camp, I thought he had to support his solid Saturday performance with another this evening.
Dvorsky obtained a decisive pass on Broberg’s goal when he won the confrontation, but he won only four of the 12 and was a minus-1 in 15:58. Dvorsky also had three failed shots on goal, and for a player who predicted to be dangerous offensively, he was simply not there Tuesday against a solid Dallas team.
I think the center will receive at least another look in a pre-season match before a decision was made, but Tuesday could really have made the decision difficult with another solid performance.
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