Columbus Blue Jackets (2-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (1-2-1, in the Central Division)
St. Louis; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT
LINE: Blues -134, Blue Jackets +110; over/under is 6
BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Blues play the Columbus Blue Jackets as losers of three games in a row.
St. Louis went 37-33-12 overall and 20-14-7 in home games a season ago. The Blues scored 38 power-play goals last season on 216 chances for a 17.6% success rate.
Columbus went 40-30-12 overall and 20-17-4 in road games last season. The Blue Jackets averaged 2.4 power-play chances per game last season, and converted on 19.0% (38 total power-play goals).
INJURIES: Blues: Adam Jecho: out (personal), Alexey Toropchenko: out (upper-body), Tyler Tucker: out (knee), Logan Mailloux: out (hand).
Blue Jackets: Caleb MacDonald: out (lower-body), Riley Bezeau: out (undisclosed), Dante Fabbro: out (upper-body), Isac Lundestrom: out (achilles), Ivan Provorov: out (lower-body).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.