{"id":19642,"date":"2017-11-30T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=19642"},"modified":"2017-11-30T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:14:14","slug":"patrik-berglund-returns-st-louis-blues-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/11\/30\/patrik-berglund-returns-st-louis-blues-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrik Berglund Returns to the St. Louis Blues Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Blues<\/a> announced Wednesday that forward Patrik Berglund<\/a><\/strong> will return to the lineup against the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. This will be his first game of the season after having surgery to repair his dislocated left shoulder in late June. He was injured during the offseason while working out in preparation for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

Patrick Berglund\u2019s Impact<\/h1>\n

The Blues are currently first in the Western Conference thanks to production from the first and second lines. The third line, previously consisting of Dmitrij Jaskin<\/a><\/strong>, Oscar Sundqvist<\/strong> and Samuel Blais<\/a><\/strong> has been struggling offensively. They have only had 12 points on the season.<\/p>\n

In the past, Berglund has scored 20 or more goals three times in his career and 30 points five times in his career. If he can help the third line produce, the Blues could be unstoppable.<\/p>\n

Head coach Mike Yeo told NHL.com<\/a>\u00a0that he thinks Berglund can help in more ways than just production,\u00a0\u201cHis presence in the middle of the ice, face-offs, his ability to distribute the puck and carry it through the neutral zone with speed\u2026his ability to get in the offensive zone, control pucks, bring momentum to your team, he\u2019s one of those wear-them-down <\/em>type of platers that are so valuable as the year goes on.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Fitting Berglund In<\/h2>\n

With the return of Berglund, the lines will likely look like this:<\/p>\n

Jaden Schwartz<\/a><\/strong>–Brayden Schenn<\/a><\/strong>–Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Vladimir Sobotka<\/a><\/strong>–Paul Stastny<\/a><\/strong>–Alexander Steen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dmitrij Jaskin<\/strong>–Patrik Berglund<\/strong>–Samuel Blais<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scottie Upshall<\/strong>–Kyle Brodziak<\/a><\/strong>–Chris Thorburn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For now, Berglund is replacing Oscar Sundqvist <\/strong>as the third line centre. Magnus Paajarvi<\/a><\/strong> is an extra who may fill in for Thorburn in the future, depending on how Thorburn plays.<\/p>\n

Berglund\u2019s Career<\/h3>\n

Berglund was drafted by the Blues in the first round in 2006. He has played in 637 NHL games over nine seasons, all with the Blues. In those 637 games, he has 296 points. His career high in points was in his rookie season, 2008-09, in which he had 47 points.<\/p>\n

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Photo:\u00a0SAN JOSE, CA – MARCH 16: Patrik Berglund #21 of the St. Louis Blues looks on during the game against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center on March 16, 2017 in San Jose, California. (Photo by Rocky W. Widner\/NHL\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Blues announced Wednesday that forward Patrik Berglund will return to the lineup against the Anaheim Ducks. This will be his first game of the season after having surgery to repair his dislocated left shoulder in late June. He was injured during the offseason while working out in preparation for the upcoming season. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2202,"featured_media":15839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,34],"tags":[384,505,1072,2724,613,746,719,2725,721,1045,2345,1207,516,716],"class_list":["post-19642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-news","tag-alexander-steen","tag-brayden-schenn","tag-chris-thorburn","tag-dmitrij-jaskin","tag-jaden-schwartz","tag-kyle-brodziak","tag-magnus-paajarvi","tag-oscar-sundqvist","tag-patrik-berglund","tag-paul-stastny","tag-samuel-blais","tag-scottie-upshall","tag-vladimir-sobotka","tag-vladimir-tarasenko"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}