{"id":475530,"date":"2025-10-10T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=475530"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:25:06","slug":"st-louis-blues-forward-questionable-for-saturdays-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/10\/10\/st-louis-blues-forward-questionable-for-saturdays-game\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues’ Forward Questionable For Saturday’s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Blues may have a different lineup for their game on Saturday. Forward Alexey Toropchenko<\/a> is dealing with upper-and-lower body injuries. As a result, he is questionable for Saturday’s game.<\/p>\n

Toropchenko Questionable<\/h2>\n
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Monty says Toropchenko is questionable for Saturday\u2019s game with upper-and-lower body injuries. #stlblues<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeremy Rutherford (@jprutherford) October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is unclear which play or plays caused Toropchenko’s injury. However, it is possible it is a continuation of soreness that caused him to miss a practice earlier in October. The soreness, however, did not cause Toropchenko to miss any games.<\/p>\n

Toropchenko did not practice with the Blues on Friday. The Blues play the Calgary Flames<\/a> on Saturday. Furthermore, the game is scheduled for the afternoon instead of the evening, so there is less time for Toropchenko to overcome his injury.<\/p>\n

Lineup Replacement<\/h3>\n

Should Toropchenko miss the game, Alexandre Texier<\/a> will enter the lineup for the first time this season. The Blues practiced Friday with Texier on a line with Pius Suter<\/a> and Jake Neighbours<\/a>. The fourth line, which normally includes Toropchenko, saw Mathieu Joseph<\/a> playing with Nick Bjugstad<\/a> and Nathan Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unusual Absence<\/h3>\n

If Toropchenko does miss Saturday’s game, it will be one of the rare times he misses a game. Last season, Toropchenko played in 80 of the Blues’ 82 regular-season games and played in all seven playoff games<\/a>. The season before, Toropchenko played in all 82 games.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, Toropchenko has been a consistent in the Blues’ lineup. The Blues’ fourth line has been reliable overall, with Toropchenko playing a key role in that. Furthermore, Toropchenko has been one of the Blues’ most consistent players since making his NHL debut in 2021-22. Two seasons ago, Toropchenko scored a career-high 14 goals, a total he is looking to build upon this season.<\/p>\n

Upcoming Schedule<\/h3>\n

If Toropchenko can not play on Saturday, his next opportunity to play will be Monday night against the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Main Photo: Ron Chenoy- Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Blues may have a different lineup for their game on Saturday. Forward Alexey Toropchenko is dealing with upper-and-lower body injuries. As a result, he is questionable for Saturday’s game. Toropchenko Questionable Monty says Toropchenko is questionable for Saturday\u2019s game with upper-and-lower body injuries. #stlblues \u2014 Jeremy Rutherford (@jprutherford) October 10, 2025 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":475532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[34,4547,4548,32],"tags":[1792,8202,4476,2293,2419,652,4762],"class_list":["post-475530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-blues","tag-alexandre-texier","tag-alexey-toropchenko","tag-jake-neighbours","tag-mathieu-joseph","tag-nathan-walker","tag-nick-bjugstad","tag-pius-suter"],"modified_by":"Andrew Willis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475530","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\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475533,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475530\/revisions\/475533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}