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St. Louis Blues 22-23
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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1794221" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/blues-notebook-scandellas-injury-should-open-more-ice-time-for-mikkola/article_5676d461-e1b5-572c-8828-8ed5999d5ff3.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/ttimmermann" target="_blank">Tom Timmermann</a></p><p>The injury that will keep Blues defenseman Marco Scandella out for most of the season will send ripples through the team’s lineup. It likely will open a spot for a forward on the 23-man roster and it will ease a logjam on defense, where the Blues were looking at starting the season with eight defensemen.</p><p>One of the beneficiaries of that might be defenseman Niko Mikkola, who appeared in a career-high 54 NHL games last season and also led the team in healthy scratches (23). He logged time on the team’s shutdown pairing alongside Colton Parayko — he was second on the team among defensemen in defensive zone starts, behind only Scandella — and he also logged time on the third pairing. The potential is there for more work for Mikkola.</p><p></p><p>“Of course, there’s one guy less now,” he said. “It would be nice to get ‘Scandy,’ too, in the lineup but yeah, it’s of course an opportunity for getting more ice time for me too, maybe more (penalty-killing) time and (I’ll) work hard and try to take it.”</p><p>“I think he has been improving year to year,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “I think the development for me is just puck play, coming out of your own end, making plays, breakout plays, things like that. Seeing the ice a little bit better. He actually does a good job offensively, the offensive zone, he attacks at the right time, gets his shot through, but coming out of his own end, he can work on just improving his puck play there and making subtle little plays and things like that.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1794221, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/blues-notebook-scandellas-injury-should-open-more-ice-time-for-mikkola/article_5676d461-e1b5-572c-8828-8ed5999d5ff3.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/ttimmermann']Tom Timmermann[/URL] The injury that will keep Blues defenseman Marco Scandella out for most of the season will send ripples through the team’s lineup. It likely will open a spot for a forward on the 23-man roster and it will ease a logjam on defense, where the Blues were looking at starting the season with eight defensemen. One of the beneficiaries of that might be defenseman Niko Mikkola, who appeared in a career-high 54 NHL games last season and also led the team in healthy scratches (23). He logged time on the team’s shutdown pairing alongside Colton Parayko — he was second on the team among defensemen in defensive zone starts, behind only Scandella — and he also logged time on the third pairing. The potential is there for more work for Mikkola. “Of course, there’s one guy less now,” he said. “It would be nice to get ‘Scandy,’ too, in the lineup but yeah, it’s of course an opportunity for getting more ice time for me too, maybe more (penalty-killing) time and (I’ll) work hard and try to take it.” “I think he has been improving year to year,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “I think the development for me is just puck play, coming out of your own end, making plays, breakout plays, things like that. Seeing the ice a little bit better. He actually does a good job offensively, the offensive zone, he attacks at the right time, gets his shot through, but coming out of his own end, he can work on just improving his puck play there and making subtle little plays and things like that.” [/QUOTE]
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