Time: 2030 SNW/CBC
Best-of-7 series tied 2-2

Blues projected lineup
Pavel Buchnevich -- Robert Thomas -- Jimmy Snuggerud
Jake Neighbours -- Brayden Schenn -- Jordan Kyrou
Alexandre Texier -- Oskar Sundqvist -- Zack Bolduc
Alexey Toropchenko -- Radek Faksa -- Nathan Walker
Cam Fowler -- Colton Parayko
Philip Broberg -- Justin Faulk
Ryan Suter -- Nick Leddy
Jordan Binnington
Joel Hofer
Scratched: Mathieu Joseph, Matthew Kessel
Injured: Dylan Holloway (lower body), Tyler Tucker (lower body)

Jets projected lineup
Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Gabriel Vilardi
Alex Iafallo -- Vladislav Namestnikov -- Cole Perfetti
Nino Niederreiter -- Adam Lowry -- Mason Appleton
Brandon Tanev -- Morgan Barron -- Jaret Anderson-Dolan
Josh Morrissey -- Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg -- Neal Pionk
Logan Stanley -- Luke Schenn
Connor Hellebuyck
Eric Comrie
Scratched: David Gustafsson, Dominic Toninato, Haydn Fleury, Colin Miller, Ville Heinola
Injured: Nikolaj Ehlers (lower body), Rasmus Kupari (concussion)

Status report
Suter is expected to play after being scratched the past two games. ... Tucker is day to day after the defenseman was injured during Game 4. … With Vilardi’s return, Iafallo goes to the second line, Niederreiter the third and Barron moves to center on the fourth line. ... Ehlers, a forward, skated in a noncontact jersey Wednesday.

Edited April 30, 2025Apr 30 by FrostyWinnipeg

Good win. Lots of positives but lots to clean up if we plan on closing it out in St. Louis. Hope Shief is okay.

Depth scoring. 

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3 Stars: 🥇 81 🥈 7 🥉 2

 

 

Edited May 1, 2025May 1 by FrostyWinnipeg

Cjob was talking about how Schenn left his feet when he hit Scheifs.  Hope the f****** league looks into it and suspends him.  Total bullshit.

6 hours ago, captaincanuck12 said:

Cjob was talking about how Schenn left his feet when he hit Scheifs.  Hope the f****** league looks into it and suspends him.  Total bullshit.

Not to mention the fact that Scheif didn’t have the puck and he was in a vulnerable position. Reminds me of the Hartmans dirty hit on Ehlers. Blue players are taking liberty with our star players and are not being forced to answer the bell.

Edited May 1, 2025May 1 by HardCoreBlue

Similar to the ekblad hit. Believe he got a game or 2. Schenn won’t cuz nhl don’t care about illegal checks on Canadian teams. 

Edited May 1, 2025May 1 by Goalie

My biggest issue with rh bhit is that Scheifele clearly wasn't looking at Schenn. He was looking toward the boards where the puck was. Schenn saw he wasn't looking and still went through him. That's as egregious as it gets. 

28 minutes ago, Noeller said:

My biggest issue with rh bhit is that Scheifele clearly wasn't looking at Schenn. He was looking toward the boards where the puck was. Schenn saw he wasn't looking and still went through him. That's as egregious as it gets. 

It’s a suspension in the regular season for sure. These refs tho have allowed St. Louis to get away with it tho. Schenn only got 2 for interference and 2 for roughing which was extra cuz our guy got 2 minutes also. Refs almost evened it up. Gave them a 2 minute power play really when should have been a 5. And a game. If Schenn got 5 and a game I’d be ok with no suspension but he got 2 minutes for the hit and 2 minutes for roughing. That’s not enough. And it’s not the first time a hit like that was thrown on a jet with no call. St. Louis almost has to legit murder for a penalty call. 

Edited May 1, 2025May 1 by Goalie

I was at the game last night…. Crazy atmosphere….  As others have said, and we’ve been saying throughout this series, the officiating has been straight up crooked.  The refs are simply ignoring the cheap **** the Blues are doing behind the play and right in front of their faces.  Several times last night I watched an official stare right at a blatant infraction, and do nothing.

Schenn should get a game for that hit, no doubt, but I’d be shocked if he did.

9 minutes ago, Goalie said:

It’s a suspension in the regular season for sure. These refs tho have allowed St. Louis to get away with it tho. Schenn only got 2 for interference and 2 for roughing which was extra cuz our guy got 2 minutes also. Refs almost evened it up. Gave them a 2 minute power play really when should have been a 5. And a game. If Schenn got 5 and a game I’d be ok with no suspension but he got 2 minutes for the hit and 2 minutes for roughing. That’s not enough. And it’s not the first time a hit like that was thrown on a jet with no call. St. Louis almost has to legit murder for a penalty call. 

If nothing more comes of this, I assume precedent set in this series.

Next time Kyrou, Thomas etc head is down looking for the puck and a Jet player leaves his feet and steamrolls him, expect a two minute interference penalty just for consistency?

The obvious strategy employed by the Blues from the start of this series is to target our top guys as much as they can get away with and at this point it seems they continue to be given a lot of latitude by the referring crew.

Update: nhl ain’t even looking at it 

Schenn and Faska are having their way with us and it seems there is not much we can expect from the referees so score goals save pucks and shut them up.

1 hour ago, Goalie said:

Update: nhl ain’t even looking at it 

Is that official?

5 minutes ago, BomberBall. said:

Is that official?

Yup, Friedman reported on it today. 

Taken from hockey feed:

'NHL insider Elliotte Friedman reports this morning that there will be NO supplemental discipline coming as a result of last night’s game'.

So moving forward, Jet players should expect a 2 minute minor for interference on similar hits on Blue Players just for consistency of course.

Edited May 1, 2025May 1 by HardCoreBlue

9 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Yup, Friedman reported on it today. 

Taken from hockey feed:

'NHL insider Elliotte Friedman reports this morning that there will be NO supplemental discipline coming as a result of last night’s game'.

So moving forward, Jet players should expect a 2 minute minor for interference on similar hits on Blue Players just for consistency of course.

Ridiculous.

And one thing we know we can expect from these officials is not being consistent…. Except for consistently giving  us the short end of the stick.

 

1 minute ago, BomberBall. said:

Ridiculous.

And one thing we know we can expect from these officials is not being consistent…. Except for consistently giving  us the short end of the stick.

We should start using the tablets on the bench to assist the referees with consistency. So next game when one of our players goes Schenn on a Blue player we can call up yesterdays hit to say yup give us 2 minutes interference please.

1 hour ago, Goalie said:

Update: nhl ain’t even looking at it 

**** YOU DPOS !   Parros you're a ******* moron.   And I blame the refs for not setting any consistency whatsoever in this series.   We have lost our best player for game 6!

I would run the hell out of the blues .  Hack and slash and injure as many of those ******* dirty pos players .

UN-*******-believable.

10 minutes ago, iHeart said:

Absolutely brutal.

1 hour ago, iHeart said:

The way is head snapped back on Schenns dirty hit coupled with all the other hits he has endured over 5 games, you would think concussion along with potential deep bruising/fractures of certain body parts. Hope I’m wrong and they’re sitting him to rest him.

so who goes in? Gus?

8 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

so who goes in? Gus?

Yeah, pretty safe to assume Gus would jump back in.

Gus or Kupari. Concussion protocol it sounds like for 55. 24 to 48 hours. Makes sense he isn’t travelling with them. He can’t. He was concussed last night. I think they shock the world and win game 6. 

Edited May 1, 2025May 1 by Goalie

Here's hoping game 6 is the regular season stand on his head Helly.