Blues player of the game vs. Blackhawks: Jake Neighbours
Light the fire, because Jake Neighbours is starting to catch the heat.
The 2020 first-round pick has slowly been climbing the ladder on the depth chart, and made his way onto the top line with Robert Thomas and Pavel Buchnevich with his grit, hard work, dogged determination and now ... offensive prowess.
Neighbours remained hot with the twig, scoring twice to give him five in five games along with a five-game point streak (five goals, one assist) in a 4-2 win against the Chicago Blackhawks at United Center on Sunday.
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Neighbours, after setting a season-high in time on ice Friday against the Nashville Predators (16:37), he topped that by playing 17:32 on Sunday and had three shots on goal (five attempts), four hits, a takeaway and two blocked shots.
Neighbours continues to skate hard, play hard along the walls and digging into board battles, but on his goals, he took one hard to the net on a breakaway, protecting it with defenseman Kevin Korchinski on his back and slid into the soft spot in the slot in the third period and finished off Buchnevich's feed.
Neighbours has already surpassed his career high in goals with seven in 20 games after scoring six in 43 games last season and is really beginning to find his stride in the NHL.
