Blues Dress Rehearsal vs. Avalanche Game Preview

Heading down to Scottrade Center for tonight’s game? Here’s the quick and dirty news you can use.

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Who: Colorado Avalanche (1-3-0) vs. St. Louis Blues (4-2-0)

What: 2011-12 NHL Preseason Game

Where: Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

When: Thursday, September 29th, 20011 at 7:00 pm Central

Why: It’s hockey! We all love it so go watch it! Besides, its better in person than streaming on you tiny computer monitor. But hey, if you’re local and want to watch because you can’t go, CLICK HERE.

How: Go buy a ticket at the Blues box office or from the “lovely” gentlemen who walk around the building on the other side of the street.

Everything Else

- Ben Bishop will make his second, and likely last, start of during exhibition play. His only other appearance was in Tampa Bay against the Lightning in which he made 21 saves en route to a 4-3 Blues victory.

- Apparently most of us thought wrong that the Jason Arnott eye surgery would lead to more icetime for Evgeny Grachev. According to Lou Korac, he will not be in the lineup.

- Lou also has likely line combos:

Andy McDonald-David Backes-Jamie Langenbrunner
T.J. Oshie-Patrik Berglund-Chris Stewart
Alex Steen-Vladimir Sobotka-Matt D’Agostini
Ryan Reaves-Scott Nichol-B.J. Crombeen

Carlo Colaiacovo-Alex Pietrangelo
Barret Jackman-Kevin Shattenkirk
Kent Huskins-Roman Polak

Ben Bishop starts in goal; Brian Elliott will be the back