St. Louis Blues Player To Watch vs. Montreal Canadiens: Brayden Schenn

We identified Jordan Kyrou as THN’s player to watch on Thursday against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the absence of Robert Thomas and Kyrou had one of the more impressive games as a Blue.

No one individual can pick up the slack of what Thomas, who will be reevaluated in six weeks with a fractured right ankle, can bring to the ice, so it will have to be a collective group that need to pick up the slack.

Blues captain Brayden Schenn is our player to watch on Saturday against the Montreal Canadiens (6 p.m.; FDSNMW, ESPN 101.1-FM) and one of those players that can pick up a little bit of the slack.

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Schenn, in essence, is filling in Thomas’s spot between Brandon Saad and Jake Neighbours has performed well against the Canadiens with 27 points (10 goals, 27 assists), including one of his four NHL hat tricks in this building of a 4-3 win on Dec. 5, 2017.

Schenn will be on the power play where Thomas plays, he will be killing penalties and taking a lot of the face-offs vacated by Thomas, who was second in the NHL at 62.6 percent when he departed the lineup.