St. Louis enter has three straight multipoint games, four-game point streak, nine assists in eight career games against Hurricanes; will get tremendous test going against Aho, Guentzel
ST. LOUIS -- Robert Thomas has gladly accepted challenges all season long.
For the St. Louis Blues center Friday against the Carolina Hurricanes, it will be no exception.
Not only will Thomas be tasked with trying to shut down/limit the production of Carolina's top line with Sebastian Aho and Jake Guentzel, he is back to producing offensively again.
Aho leads Carolina with 87 points on the season, and Guentzel has 22 points (six goals, 16 assists) in 16 games since being acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Thomas has eight points the past three games (two goals, six assists), all multipoint games and he has a four-game point streak (two goals, seven assists) after going through a stretch of just one assist in seven games.
Thomas has seemed to click lately playing with Brayden Schenn and rookie Zack Bolduc and will need to add a multi-dimension game again for the Blues (42-32-5), who will try and stay in the playoff hunt against a very tough opponent in the Hurricanes (50-22-7).
