There will be a change to the St. Louis Blues lineup in Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round against the Winnipeg Jets on Monday.
It just won't be someone coming in, someone going out.
The Blues are going to flip Jake Neighbours and Jimmy Snuggerud for the matchup at 6:30 p.m. (FDSNMW, ESPN2, CBC, TVAS2, ESPN 101.1-FM), with Snuggerud going up to play with Robert Thomas and Neighbours sliding down to play with Brayden Schenn and Jordan Kyrou.
The Jets lead the best-of-7 series 1-0 after coming from behind to take Game 1, 5-3, on Saturday.
It was noted that on Saturday, the Schenn line produced zero shot attempts in the game at 5-on-5, with attempts being 11-0 when that line was on the ice. They will have to help produce more balance throughout if they are going to make a dent in this series.
The Blues finished with only 17 shots on goal after having nine in the first period and had just 15 shots when they had their franchise-record 12-game winning streak snapped in the same building on April 7.
"Sometimes as a coach you have a feel that this will hopefully create a little more offense," Blues coach Jim Montgomery said. "That's what we're looking at and give us better defensive positioning with our top two lines.
"Video was done yesterday as far as what we learned from Game 1, how we're going to get better in Game 2 and we're just focused on how we can have success tonight."
Snuggerud played two games with the Thomas line previously, in Winnipeg on April 7 and against the Colorado Avalanche on April 5.
"Just know who I play with going into the game," Snuggerud said. "Play hard, play physical, try and make plays during the game, try and get shots off. I'm playing with really good hockey players. I need to know my role and move on with it."
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Blues Projected Lineup:
Jimmy Snuggerud-Robert Thomas-Pavel Buchnevich
Jake Neighbours-Brayden Schenn-Jordan Kyrou
Mathieu Joseph-Oskar Sundqvist-Zack Bolduc
Alexey Toropchenko-Radek Faksa-Nathan Walker
Cam Fowler-Colton Parayko
Philip Broberg-Justin Faulk
Ryan Suter-Nick Leddy
Jordan Binnington will start in goal; Joel Hofer will be the backup.
Healthy scratches include Tyler Tucker, Alexandre Texier, Matthew Kessel and Will Cranley. Dylan Holloway (lower body) remains week to week. Torey Krug (ankle) is out for the season.
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Jets Projected Lineup:
Kyle Connor-Mark Scheifele-Alex Iafallo
Nino Niederreiter-Vladislav Namestnikov-Cole Perfetti
Brandon Tanev-Adam Lowry-Mason Appleton
David Gustafsson-Morgan Barron-Jaret Anderson-Dolan
Josh Morrissey-Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg-Neal Pionk
Logan Stanley-Luke Schenn
Connor Hellebuyck will start in goal; Eric Comrie will be the backup.
Healthy scratches include Dominic Toninato, Haydn Fleury, Colin Miller and Chris Driedger. Nikolaj Ehlers (lower body) is week to week; Gabriel Vilardi (upper body), Rasmus Kupari (concussion) and Ville Heinola (undisclosed) are out.