The St. Louis Blues will look to wrap up a season-long five-game road trip with a pre-Thanksgiving positive result when they take on the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday (6 p.m.; FDSNMW, ESPN 101.1-FM).

The Blues (7-10-6) have just one win on the trip thus far but points in three of four, going 1-1-2 but face a daunting challenge against the Devils (14-7-1), who are undefeated in regulation on home ice (8-0-1) at Prudential Center.

The Blues, coming off a 3-2 loss to the New York Rangers on Monday, will enter the Thanksgiving holiday below .500 but they were also there last season (11-12-1) and after the 4 Nations face-Off break, everyone knows the rest how they took off.

They’re already way behind the 8-Ball again in the standings and have been talking urgency for quite some time with few results as far as wins despite picking up points in nine of the past 13 games.

“Go win a game in New Jersey and give ourselves a fairly decent road trip,” Blues defenseman Colton Parayko said after Monday’s loss. “Obviously we always want more points, but right now we can go to practice (Tuesday), make sure we focus on New Jersey for Wednesday and make sure we get those two points. That's the main focus right now.”

They have at least a point in seven of nine (3-2-4).

“I think we've got a ways to go, too,” Blues forward Dylan Holloway said. “So we know that in this room and we expect a lot out of our team, and each other. There's definitely another level that we can get to, but we're in the right direction right now.”

The Blues did not hold a morning skate on Wednesday, but it is expected that Jordan Binnington will get the nod in goal after Joel Hofer played Monday and the Blues having back-to-back home games on Friday and Saturday against the Ottawa Senators and Utah Mammoth, respectively, a rotation is all but in order.

The Blues will change up the lineup quite a bit (see below), and the only lineup change as far as personnel is concerned is Mathieu Joseph, a healthy scratch the past two games, will come in and play on the fourth line with Alexey Toropchenko coming out, according to coach Jim Montgomery's pregame availability.

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Blues Projected Lineup:

Pavel Buchnevich-Robert Thomas-Jordan Kyrou 

Dylan Holloway-Dalibor Dvorsky-Jake Neighbours

Brayden Schenn-Pius Suter-Jimmy Snuggerud

Mathieu Joseph-Oskar Sundqvist-Nathan Walker

Philip Broberg-Colton Parayko

Tyler Tucker-Justin Faulk

Cam Fowler-Logan Mailloux

Jordan Binnington will start in goal; Joel Hofer will be the backup.

Healthy scratches could include Nick Bjugstad, Alexey Toropchenko and Matthew Kessel. The Blues have no injuries.

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Devils Projected Lineup:

Timo Meier-Nico Hischier-Jesper Bratt

Ondrej Palat-Dawson Mercer-Arseny Gritsyuk

Paul Cotter-Cody Glass-Connor Brown

Juho Lammikko-Luke Glendening-Stefan Noesen

Jonas Siegenthaler-Dougie Hamilton

Luke Hughes-Simon Nemec

Brenden Dillon-Colton White

Jacob Markstrom will start in goal; Jake Allen will be the backup.

Healthy scratches include Dennis Cholowski. Jack Hughes (finger), Evgenii Dadonov (undisclosed), Zack MacEwen (undisclosed), Brett Pesce (hand), Johnathan Kovacevic (knee) and Marc McLaughlin (undisclosed) are all out.

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