ST. LOUIS ¡ª The frustration from another embarrassing outing
on home ice for the St. Louis Blues spilled over into practice on Monday as
defenseman Robert Bortuzzo and forward Zach Sanford got into a fight during a
battle drill.The tussle took place at the end of practice. The players were
separated by assistant coach Steve Ott.¡°Guys are frustrated and they should
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Post-Dispatch. ¡°Sometimes in practice it boils over and things happen. ¡ They do
care. I know these guys care, and that¡¯s what happens because they do care and
want to be successful.¡±Article continues below ...Blues forward Pat Maroon
looked at it as a positive.¡°You¡¯ve got to enjoy it,¡± Maroon told the
Post-Dispatch. ¡°That¡¯s part of hockey, right? We¡¯re still teammates. Sometimes
people get heated and frustrations build up. I love that stuff. I think it¡¯s
great. That¡¯s me though. I don¡¯t know if anyone else likes it.¡±The Blues, fresh
off a 6-1 drubbing against the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday, hope to take that
fight into their next game as they host the Florida Panthers on Tuesday
night.And they could be getting back forward Jaden Schwartz for the game.
Schwartz has missed the last 11 games after getting hit in the hand by a shot
from teammate Vladimir Tarasenko in a Nov. 16 game at Vegas.¡°I¡¯m feeling
better,¡± Schwartz told the Post-Dispatch. ¡°This last week, I¡¯d say I¡¯ve made
strides. We¡¯ll see how it feels in the morning, but I feel like I¡¯m getting
close.¡°We¡¯ll see how it feels in the morning and try a couple more things out
and then make a decision right after that.¡±The Blues also made a change in the
nets, as Jordan Binnington was called up from AHL-San Antonio after the loss the
Vancouver loss. Backup Chad Johnson has been put on waivers.Berube would not say
whether Binnington or starter Jake Allen, who was pulled on Sunday, would start
against the Panthers.The Blues have lost three of their last four games. St.
Louis lost both games against Florida last season.The Panthers enter the game
off a 5-4 shootout loss to the New York Rangers. They have also lost three of
their last four games.Panthers left winger Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and two
assists to reach 301 career points in 413 NHL games in the loss.¡°We got one
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but obviously we need two points,¡± Huberdeau told NHL.com. ¡°I think we had nine
points out of 16 at home. So we just have to take the positives of it and go on
the road. Make sure we¡¯re ready to go in St. Louis (on Tuesday).¡±Florida came
out slow, but overcame a two-goal deficit to force overtime against the
Rangers.¡°We had chances to win the game, but they did,¡± Panthers center
Aleksander Barkov told NHL.com. ¡°So we¡¯re not happy because of that. We¡¯re happy
with how we played. ¡ In this league, if you come out the way we did in the
first period, it can cost you the whole game.¡± Mired in a long losing streak to
close 2018, the Edmonton Oilers shook things up again.After swinging two deals
to shore up a depleted blueline, the Oilers look to avoid their sixth straight
loss Monday night against the visiting Winnipeg Jets.Despite two goals from
captain Connor McDavid, Edmonton¡¯s slide continued Saturday with a 7-4 setback
to the San Jose Sharks. Even though McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Ryan
Nugent-Hopkins have combined for more than 45 percent of the Oilers¡¯ points this
season, coach Ken
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you play with skill, you play with high risk and we¡¯re not built that way,¡± he
said Sunday. ¡°When we get down a goal or we get down two goals, we¡¯ve tried to
break it wide open, and now we¡¯re down three or four goals.¡±The losing streak
has helped drop Edmonton (18-17-3) into 11th place in the Western Conference.¡°If
you¡¯re going to continue to collect points, you¡¯re going to have to defend,¡±
Hitchcock said. ¡°In this conference, you can¡¯t skill your way through games.
You¡¯ve got to work your way through games.¡±Hitchcock¡¯s comments came after the
Oilers acquired Alex Petrovic from the Florida Panthers for blueliner Chris
Wideman and a conditional third-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft. Petrovic had
one assist in 26 games with the Panthers this season and is well-known to
Nugent-Hopkins.¡°Big body, can really shoot the puck and he¡¯s a smart player who
knows when to move it and jump up in the play,¡± Nugent-Hopkins said of his
juniors teammate, adding that Petrovic plays with an edge.Hitchcock said
Petrovic will make his team ¡°sturdier¡± as the Oilers¡¯ defensive corps has been
decimated by injuries. Kris Russell could be back Monday from an undisclosed
injury that¡¯s sidelined him since Dec.
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to another month.Later on Sunday, Edmonton picked up defenseman Brandon Manning
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Caggiula and blueliner Jason Garrison. Now in his seventh season, Manning had
three points in only 27 games with Chicago after career highs of seven goals and
12 assists with the Philadelphia Flyers in 2017-18.Three years ago, Manning and
McDavid were involved in a hard collision along the end boards in Philadelphia.
McDavid, then a rookie, missed almost three months with a broken
collarbone.Winnipeg (24-12-2) will also have to get by without a key on defense
after Dustin Byfuglien suffered a lower-body injury during a 3-1 loss to the
Minnesota Wild on Saturday. Byfuglien, who has four goals and 25 assists, won¡¯t
need surgery but is expected to be out until after next month¡¯s All-Star
break.¡°We¡¯re going to miss the guy, for sure, in almost every facet of your game
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zone time; If it gets a little wobbly out there, calming a game down,¡± coach
Paul Maurice said. ¡°But we¡¯ve got other men who can each do a piece of what
Dustin does.¡±The Jets, who are tied with the Calgary Flames atop the West, have
won seven of their last eight on the road. Maurice said the Oilers shouldn¡¯t be
taken lightly despite not winning since Dec. 14.¡°Anybody on the outside (of the
top eight in the conference) now is going to fight like playoff hockey right
until the All-Star break,¡± he said.Maurice could also be calling on the Jets to
take up that mindset as they¡¯ve been held to one goal in each of their last
three games and four of the past five. Patrik Laine leads the team with 24 goals
but has only three in December, while Mark Scheifele (22 goals) scored once in
his last five games.Heading into the finale of the season series, Winnipeg is
4-0-1 in its last five meetings with Edmonton.