Ducks at Blues preview

DUCKS (9-9-2) at BLUES (12-3-5)
8 p.m. ET; FS-MW, FS-W, NHL.TV

The Blues are winless in two straight games (0-0-2) following a seven-game winning streak; five of their victories during that stretch were in overtime, prior to a 3-2 shootout loss to the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday and a 3-2 overtime loss at the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday.
Goalie Jordan Binnington will start for St. Louis; he is 7-1-1 with a 1.96 goals-against average and .931 save percentage in his past nine starts.
Forward Klim Kostin could make his NHL debut for the Blues after the No. 31 pick in the 2017 NHL Draft was recalled from San Antonio of the American Hockey League on Wednesday.
The Ducks look to end a five-game winless streak (0-3-2) after going 3-1-0 in their previous four games.

Players to watch

Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf has 37 points (nine goals, 28 assists) in 41 games against St. Louis.
Blues forward David Perron has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in his past nine games and will play in his 800th NHL game.

They said it

"I quite like being at home, but it's a good time for us to get out and when you're on the road, it's that whole being together when you turn and we're still trying to get to know everybody. Obviously being on the road helps that." -- Ducks coach Dallas Eakins on starting a four-game road trip
"I still think we need to do a better job of scoring goals. We're not scoring enough. Our goalies are playing well enough and bailing us out. We've got to find ways to put more pucks in the back of the net." -- Blues center Brayden Schenn

Ducks projected lineup

Nick Ritchie -- Ryan Getzlaf -- Ondrej Kase
Rickard Rakell -- Adam Henrique -- Jakob Silfverberg
Max Jones -- Sam Steel -- Troy Terry
Devin Shore -- Derek Grant -- Carter Rowney
Jacob Larsson -- Cam Fowler
Michael Del Zotto -- Erik Gudbranson
Brendan Guhle -- Korbinian Holzer
John Gibson
Ryan Miller
Scratched: Nicolas Deslauriers, Josh Mahura
Injured: Josh Manson (lower body), Hampus Lindholm (lower body)

Blues projected lineup

Jaden Schwartz -- Brayden Schenn -- Robert Thomas
Zach Sanford -- Ryan O'Reilly -- David Perron
Klim Kostin -- Tyler Bozak -- Sammy Blais
Mackenzie MacEachern -- Ivan Barbashev -- Oskar Sundqvist
Colton Parayko -- Alex Pietrangelo
Jay Bouwmeester -- Justin Faulk
Vince Dunn -- Robert Bortuzzo
Jordan Binnington
Jake Allen
Scratched: Carl Gunnarsson, Jacob de la Rose
Injured: Vladimir Tarasenko (shoulder), Alexander Steen (ankle)

Status report

Del Zotto is expected to play after being a healthy scratch the past two games. ... Shore will play for the first time in five games and replace Deslauriers. ... Bortuzzo, who has been a healthy scratch the past eight games, could return to the lineup in place of Gunnarsson. ... If Kostin plays, de la Rose could be a healthy scratch.

Stat pack

Silfverberg has five points (two goals, three assists) in a four-game point streak. ... Pietrangelo has seven points (one goal, six assists) in his past five games and is one goal shy of 100 in the NHL.