The Winnipeg Jets and St. Louis Blues have swapped the Golden Boy for the Gateway Arch, as the Stanley Cup opening round matchup shifts from Manitoba to Missouri for Game 3 on Thursday night.

After seeing Games 1 and 2 feature puck drops within the early evening hours in the prime-time slot, Thursday's pivotal Game 3 will take place at 8:45 PM central time.

Serving as the Central Division Semifinal, the third game will either see the Jets pull ahead to a commanding 3-0 series lead, or St. Louis find its first win of the best-of-seven to cut Winnipeg's lead to just one game.

Having played two games in three days to open the matchup, it has now been three days since the teams last saw each other on ice. The same will be said between Games 3 and 4 as well as Games 4 and 5.

Winnipeg is not expected to make any line changes from its personnel from the past two meetings, while St. Louis may or may not shift away from the 11/7 forward/defence split it used in the second game.

Connor Hellebuyck and Jordan Binnington will go back at it for the third-straight game.

Winnipeg Jets' expected line combinations for Game 3 at. St. Louis on Thursday, April 24:

Connor-Scheifele-Iafallo

Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Perfetti

Tanev-Lowry-Appleton

Gustafsson-Barron-Anderson Dolan

Morrissey-DeMelo

Samberg-Pionk

Stanley-Schenn

Hellebuyck

Injured: Vilardi, Ehlers

Healthy Scratches: Fleury, Miller, Toninato, Kupari, Heinola

St. Louis Blues' expected line combinations for Game 3 vs. Winnipeg on Thursday, April 24:

Buchnevich-Thomas-Snuggerud

Neighbours-Schenn-Kyrou

Texier-Sundqvist-Bolduc

Toropchenko-Faksa-Walker

Fowler-Parayko

Broberg-Faulk

Leddy-Tucker

Binnington

Line Combinations: Game 3 - Jets at Blues