The Blues’ preseason lines for tonight’s homegame look very much like those the team could ice in a regular season game. That’s by design.
Yeo: “We have to start getting guys game ready and that begins tonight.”
— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) September 25, 2018
Not counting the absence of Carl Gunnarsson, still recovering from off-season surgery, that’s a fair approximation of what opening night looks like on the defensive end.
Up front, you’re missing Fabbri, Jaskin, Sanford, Shoshnikov, and Sundqvist. Other than swapping Fabbri for Barbashev, and Jaskin for Blais, that is more than likely what opening night should look like.