The Blues barely iced a complete roster against the Florida Panthers this afternoon, and that fact probably makes the 4-3 loss sting significantly less. The Blues, were already short David Perron, Klim Kostin, and James Neal to injury, and Tyler Bozak to Covid-19, when they beat the Tampa Bay Lightning Tuesday night in a shootout.
By the time the team had a rematch against the Bolts on Thursday night, they were also short Jordan Binnington and Justin Faulk. The Blues, in front of Ville Husso, hung around against the Lightning before losing 4-2.
Icing seven defensemen and 11 forwards isn’t what the Blues wanted to do against the league’s best team today, either, but thankfully the team got career performances out of the fourth line, especially Dakota Joshua and Logan Brown Ville Husso, and this guy:
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Yep, you are reading that correctly.