SAN JOSE -- When the Sharks last saw the Blues, they were shut out 4-0 on the tail end of a back-to-back road game. They’ll try to avenge that loss Saturday night when the Blues visit SAP Center for the fourth contest in the Sharks' six-game homestand.
Sharks coach Peter DeBoer told NBC Sports California there was an advantage to having played St. Louis just a little over a week before.
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“Especially with how they beat us,” he said. “They really beat us at our own game. They out-supported us on breakouts. They got inside us on our forecheck. All the things we try and do to other teams, I thought they did to us. “
This time around, it’s the Blues who are playing the tail end of a road back-to-back. St. Louis defeated the Golden Knights 4-1 in Vegas on Friday night after previously losing two consecutive games against the Minnesota Wild and Chicago Blackhawks, respectively.
Saturday marks the second meeting between the Sharks and Blues in their three-game season series. San Jose is 40-50-2-7 against St. Louis all time.
Sharks projected lines and pairs
San Jose Sharks
Joe Pavelski – Logan Couture – Timo Meier
Marcus Sorensen – Joe Thornton – Kevin Labanc
Evander Kane – Antti Suomela – Joonas Donskoi
Barclay Goodrow – Dylan Gambrell – Melker Karlsson
Joakim Ryan – Brent Burns
Marc-Edouard Vlasic – Justin Braun
Brenden Dillon – Erik Karlsson
Aaron Dell – projected starter
Martin Jones
Blues projected lines and pairs
Jaden Schwartz – Ryan O’Reilly – Vladimir Tarasenko
Robby Fabbri – Tyler Bozak – Brayden Schenn
Zachary Sanford – Robert Thomas – David Perron
Ivan Barbashev – Oskar Sundqvist – Samuel Blais
Carl Gunnarsson – Alex Pietrangelo
Vince Dunn – Colton Parayko
Joel Edmundson – Jay Bouwmeester
Chad Johnson – projected starter
Jake Allen