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ANAHEIM - The roster juggling act will have to continue for St. Louis Blues Head Coach Craig Berube on Sunday as his team looks to match their best 10-game start in franchise history in Anaheim (7 p.m. CT, BSMW, 101 ESPN).
A win would lift the Blues to 8-1-1, a mark they reached only once during the 2002-03 season.

Brayden Schenn won't play Sunday and will miss at least the rest of the road trip after traveling back to St. Louis to undergo a medical evaluation on an upper-body injury. Defensemen Torey Krug and Niko Mikkola also can't play after they were added to the non-roster COVID-19 protocol list Friday, joining Kyle Clifford and Ville Husso, who were already there.
However, there is some good news: captain Ryan O'Reilly will return to the lineup after missing four games in the COVID-19 protocol.
O'Reilly met the team in Anaheim and practiced Saturday on the top line with Brandon Saad and David Perron and will likely be there when the puck drops Sunday.

O'Reilly looking forward to return

With two defensemen out due to protocols, the Blues recalled Calle Rosen from the AHL's Springfield Thunderbirds on Friday. Rosen has played in 20 NHL games between the Toronto Maple and Colorado Avalanche and is expected to make his Blues debut on Sunday.
"He's a good skater. He's a heads-up player, he makes plays with the puck. Smart player, his feet are really good," Berube said of Rosen. "I thought he had a real good camp. I really liked the [first] (preseason) game he played, he was excellent. The second (preseason) game was just OK, but the whole team was just OK in that game so I think that had something to do with it. He's solid."
Below is a projected lineup for Sunday's game against the Ducks based on the lines the team used in practice Saturday. If lineup changes are made today, they will be updated here during pre-game warm-ups.

PROJECTED LINEUP

Forwards
Saad - O'Reilly - Perron
Kyrou - Thomas - Tarasenko
Kostin - Barbashev - Buchnevich
Neighbours - Bozak - Neal
Defense
Walman - Parayko
Scandella - Faulk
Rosen - Bortuzzo
Goalie
Binnington