Game Preview, 2/2: Utah Hockey Club vs. Louis Blues – Nhl.com

When: 17:00 mt

Where: Delta Center – Salt Lake City, Utah

TV: SEG+, UTAHHC+, Utah 16 | Radio: KSL SPORTS ZONE 97.5 FM, NHL Application

The Utah Hockey Club (21-21-9) meets St. Louis Blues (23-25-4) tonight at Delta Center in the third game of four games. Utah won each of the previous two games between the two rivals of the Central Division and seeks to defeat the opposite country three times for the first time in the history of the team.

Disposable

• Utah has points in four straight home games and five of the last seven competitions as a whole.
• Captain Clayton Keller leads the team with 56 points (18G, 38A) in 50 games and is a native of St. Louis.
• Defender John Marino assists in four straight games.
• Utah has the sixth best goal differential in the first period at +14.
• Defender Ian Cole was prepared by St. Louis 18 in general in the NHL project in 2007.

A match tonight

The Blues are in place of trouble after losing four straight and were excluded in two of these games. All four of St. Louis’s last four losses have occurred against teams or inside or just outside the playoff photo: Vegas Golden Knights, Dallas Stars, Vancouver Cambo, Colorado Avalanche. Nevertheless, the Blues need victories and are currently in sixth place in the central division, only one point and one place behind the Utah.

Defense, St. Louis was recently porous, allowing four or more goals in five of his last six games.

The Blue receive their rating from various sources, and seven players carrying Blue Note have double-digit goal this season with the 21 Jordan Kiru markers, leading from the team.

Who to watch

Utah: #15 Alexander Carfut – Cerfut scored only 0:29 in the third period on Friday against Columbus and now has seven goals this season. The Harvard product has scored two -digit goals in each of its last three seasons and five times in its eight -year career in NHL.

St. Louis: #18 Robert Thomas – Taken 20th by St. Louis in the NHL entrance project for 2017, Thomas has been one of the most productive players of the Blue in the last seven seasons. He missed 12 games due to an injury earlier in the campaign, but he has 36 points (12G, 24A) in 40 games to lead St. Louis with 0.90 points per game.

Look back

Utah kept a 2-0 lead in the third period on Friday, but could not hold a late jump from Columbus’s blue jackets and fell 3-2 in the overtime. Zack Vereski scored the winner of overtime for the blue jackets after several flukey bounced off Columbus. Alexander Kerfut and Nick Schmalz scored two goals for Utah, and goalkeeper Karel Velkaka stopped 20 out of 23 shots. Utah was ahead of Columbus 33-23 in the game, and Utah held 4.77 to 2.47 edge in expected goals according to Sportlogiq.

Last meeting

Utah took off St. Louis Blues 4-2 in Delta Center on January 20 at Delta Center. After Utah admitted a goal only two minutes during the first period of Tyler Tucker, Liam O’Brien released the gloves with a tilt, changing the inertia, which caused a three goal outburst in the first frame. Michael Kesselring scored his fifth goal of the year to tie the game 1-1 in the game of Power, and two more goals from Nick Shmalz and Clayton Keller brought Juta 3-1 20 minutes ago.

Jake Blues’s neighbors trimmed Utah’s lead to 3-2 in the second period, but Logan Kulie found the back of the net later in the period to make a 4-2 race. Keller joined all four goals for Utah, raising a goal and three assists. Goalkeeper Connor Ingram took the victory with 22 rescue in 24 shots.

Power

The game of Utah’s power was 1-3 on Friday against Columbus thanks to a goal from the first period of Nick Schmalz. Utah now has goals in the rear matches, in four of their last five (4-for-12, 33.3%), and in eight of their last 10 (8-for-26, 30.8%). At 22.7% of the season conversion percentage, Utah ranks 12th in all NHL teams in the benefit of man.

The last match against Columbus, Utah managed to continue their production in the Power Game, although she missed her best two scorers on special teams: Dylan Gunter and Logan Kulie. Gunter and Tower are bound by the team’s lead with seven goals of power, but they are both out of the injury.

Clayton Keller leads the team with 22 points (5G, 17A) to Power’s game, and this generally puts it in a draw for the 10th most in NHL. Utah captain has recorded a goal or assist of 17 of the last 20 goals of Utah’s power.

Playoff

Utah is currently six points behind Calgary Flames for the second place of Wild Card in the western conference. Vancouver Canucks are also five points ahead of Utah and are the next tail team for a seaside place. Utah is 3-0-0 against Calgary and Vancouver, but the club must focus on dots, regardless of the enemy.

The MoneyPuck.com analysis site gives Utah a 16.9% chance of making the post -season, but it should be noted that these percentages change dramatically to the game.

Look forward

Utah envelops the four -meter home with a slope against the Filadelphia flyers on Tuesday, February 4th. Utah and Philadelphia had previously met on February 8, and Utah claimed to win by 4-2.