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The experiment might not be over, but it will be paused Saturday night when the Blues host the Washington Capitals.

That’s when the Blues will shift forward Pavel Buchnevich back to his natural winger position after playing him at center for the first 13 games of the season. Buchnevich practiced at left wing Friday morning, with Brayden Schenn at center and Jordan Kyrou at right wing on a new-look top line that made its debut late in a 4-2 loss to Utah on Thursday night.

Buchnevich had been acting as the club’s de facto No. 1 center with Robert Thomas sidelined until early December because of a fractured ankle. On Thursday, Buchnevich set up Kyrou’s game-tying goal in the third period by dancing through the Utah defense and dishing to an open Kyrou for a one-timer.

“When we did it in the third period, they started to get a little bit of traction,� Blues coach Drew Bannister said of moving Buchnevich to the wing. “Obviously, they scored the one goal. (Thursday) was not a good game for us, so we have to make some changes. That was one of the changes we felt we’d make. Whether we stick with it, but as of (Saturday), we want to try something different.�

Bannister later said the change is for Saturday’s game and then the Blues will “move forward as we see fit� after that. He said that “I still think (Buchenvich) can be a real good centerman for us.�

The assist to Kyrou featured Buchnevich winning a puck battle in the neutral zone, pulling a puck off the wall, stick-handling between a pair of Utah players and then evading another two checkers.

“Finally get the puck with a little bit of speed, and find a way to make a play,� Buchnevich said after the game. “Still remember how to play hockey, so make a play, he score the goal. Happy for him.�

Kyrou said: “That was all him. He made a great play, dangled two guys and set me up.�

It was Buchnevich’s second 5-on-5 point of the evening — he also picked up the primary helper on Colton Parayko’s goal. But Buchnevich has not scored a 5-on-5 goal since the first period of a loss on Oct. 11 in Las Vegas. He also scored a power-play goal that night, and an empty-netter Saturday against Toronto, but nothing else.

Can a play like Saturday’s get him going again?

“We’ll see,� Buchnevich said. “I feel like I’m cruising in the middle and doesn’t affect any game a lot. Just trying to do my best defensively and play against top guys.�

Buchnevich might have less responsibility to defend against top players now that the Blues shifted him to the wing. He won’t be expected to be the low forward in the defensive zone all the time, and he’ll execute different routes exiting his own zone than he did as a center.

Asked what kind of feedback or input Buchnevich gave the coaching staff, Bannister said Buchnevich “likes the opportunity� of playing center.

“He’s doing everything in his power to learn the position and I think the defensive part of the game comes very easily for ‘Buchy’ and he’s been really good and committed to that,� Bannister said. “The faceoff part, he’s been working at. He’s finding himself chasing a lot of pucks, but it’s not because he isn’t trying. He’s been working at it.

“The offensive side, he’s trying to find himself a little bit playing center ice and getting the opportunities and the touches he needs to feel involved in the game. I think that’s probably where he’s searching for his game a little bit is through the middle on the offensive side.�

At 5 on 5, Buchnevich’s offensive contributions are down compared to his career benchmarks. Per 60 minutes, he’s attempted 9.25 shots, got 4.93 on goal, created 0.45 expected goals, 5.86 scoring chances and 2.47 high-danger chances, according to Natural Stat Trick. Those are all the lowest in his nine-year career.

For the first time since the Blues acquired him from New York, the club has controlled more possession with Buchnevich off the ice than with him on it, according to a variety NST’s numbers.

“He does put a lot of pressure on himself, especially offensively,� Bannister said. “But defensively, I think he’s played very well for us. He saw a lot of tough matchups playing against other teams’ top lines. He’s done a real good job, but I think the frustration for him is he wants to contribute offensively all the time, too. So he puts a lot of pressure on himself that way.�

Buchnevich won one of his 11 faceoffs on Thursday, dropping his winning percentage to 31% this season.

“When you have somebody that hasn’t taken a lot of draws, it’s incumbent on the wingers to help out a little bit more,� Bannister said. “The communication of what you’re trying to do. If you are going to tie up the draw and create more 50-50s and help out on the edge battles instead of losing draws clean.�

With Buchnevich back at wing, the Blues used Schenn, Dylan Holloway, Oskar Sundqvist and Radek Faksa down the middle during practice on Friday.

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Another day, another change to the Blues’ power play.

During practice on Friday, the Blues debuted another look on their power play, which entered the day ranked as the second-worst unit in the NHL, scoring on just 11.8% of their chances. The team has scored two power-play goals in the last four weeks, both by Dylan Holloway.

On Friday, the first unit consisted of Brayden Schenn at the net-front, Colton Parayko in the left circle, Jordan Kyrou in the bumper, Pavel Buchnevich in the right circle and Justin Faulk at the point. The second unit was Oskar Sundqvist at the net-front, Jake Neighbours on the left flank, Brandon Saad in the bumper, Holloway on the right flank and Scott Perunovich at the point.

“Right now, it’s not working, so we can’t stick with the same thing,� Blues coach Drew Bannister said. “Whether it’s our net-front or it’s our flankers or our guys up top, we’re searching for answers and trying to find combinations in the right spot for right now with the players that we have to have success.�

One of the biggest changes appears to be Parayko’s ascension to the top unit, and in a position at which he can use his heavy one-timer. When Parayko scored his second of two goals last Saturday against Toronto, it was a one-timer just as a Blues power play was expiring.

The other eye-opener was moving Neighbours from his familiar spot at the net-front and onto the flank, where he played in both junior hockey and in the AHL. Neighbours played at the net-front on the power play in every game he’s been in the lineup since last November.

The Blues went 0 for 3 on Thursday against Utah, and that included a three-minute power play after Maveric Lamoureux’s kneeing major penalty. They are 0 for 10 in the last four games on the power play.

The Blues have been on the power play 34 times in 14 games, and the 2.43 chances per game is the fewest in the NHL.

“We have one power play a game,� Buchnevich said. “Of course you’re not going to score. Give Toronto or Tampa Bay one power play a game, they’re not going to score. Doesn’t have a feeling, doesn’t have a confidence. If you have two, three a game, four, maybe you generate something, give momentum.�

Delivering a message

About 10 minutes into practice on Friday morning, Bannister stopped the drills and gathered his team at center ice to deliver a profane address that implored his team to work harder, and to treat the game-like situations in practice more seriously.

“I just felt I needed to get the attention of the team at one point of practice here today,� Bannister said. “So I got their attention.�

The Blues managed just 15 shots on goal in their loss Thursday to the Utah Hockey Club, a total Bannister attributed to his club’s lack of a forecheck.

Bolduc out

During practice on Friday, Zack Bolduc skated as an extra forward as Kasperi Kapanen entered the lineup on a line with Brandon Saad and Oskar Sundqvist. Kapanen was dealing with an upper-body injury, but would have gone into the lineup on Thursday if Holloway was unable to play after he was hit in the neck by a puck on Tuesday.

Asked about Bolduc’s game, Bannister said “he’s struggling at both ends to put it together.�

“There are some real good things to his game that weren’t part of his game, his physicality and stuff, his attention to detail on the defensive side,� Bannister said. “I think that’s slipped for us. Offensively, those are his instincts and his strengths in his game and working into areas where he can get chances. I think that’s an area that he has to focus on to give himself, and build his confidence, too.�

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On Thursday night, the Blues allowed their fate to be decided by a few bounces.

In falling behind 18 seconds into the game, in amassing two shots on goal during the second period, in putting one shot on goal in the game’s final 11:28, in going scoreless again on the power play, the Blues narrowed their path to victory in an eventual 4-2 loss to the Utah Hockey Club.

St. Louis failed in so many different areas of the game that Jordan Kyrou’s late-game turnover cost it when Dylan Guenther turned the misplay into the game-winning goal for Utah with 3:21 remaining in the third period.

About three minutes earlier, Kyrou scored to tie the game, potentially rescuing a subpar outing for the Blues and putting them in a position to steal a point out of their first matchup with Utah. But when he attempted a pass to Ryan Suter at the offensive blue line, Guenther tipped the puck away and led a 2 on 1 for Utah. Guenther tried saucing a pass to Logan Cooley, but it deflected off a sliding Colton Parayko and into the back of the net.

“Just got to be more direct there,� Kyrou said. “Time of the game there. Just got to put that deep.�

Blues coach Drew Bannister: “It’s just a bad bounce, but at the end, it shouldn’t be in there at that point.�

It was the second time in the last four games that Kyrou turned the puck over late in the third period that directly led to the game-winning goal for the opposition. Last week in Philadelphia, the Flyers scored when Kyrou had a neutral-zone turnover that became Bobby Brink’s game-winner.

On Thursday, Bannister said the Blues were “lucky to be where we were� with the game tied late in the third period.

“As a team, we have to recognize that we hadn’t played well for 55 minutes of the game, and we’re in a 2-2 game,� Bannister said. “And we just have to push that to overtime.�

Parayko and Kyrou scored the Blues goals on Thursday night, and Joel Hofer made 27 saves. Guenther (game-winner), Michael Kesselring, Matias Maccelli and Jack McBain (empty-netter) scored for Utah.

Overall, the Blues slogged their way to just 15 shots on goal. It was just the third time in the last dozen seasons that St. Louis put as few shots on net. It was the fifth time this season than an NHL team had 15 or fewer shots on goal. Kyrou’s game-tying goal was the team’s only shot on goal in the final 11:28 of the game, and that included nearly two minutes of an extra attacker with Hofer on the bench.

“I think we were just a little bit sloppy with the puck,� Blues forward Brandon Saad said. “They do a good job of clogging up the neutral zone. They’ve got a lot of speed and skill going the other way, so I think we just got stubborn with it and didn’t get pucks in deep.�

On the power play, the Blues went 0 for 3, and that encompassed three minutes of a major penalty when Maveric Lamoureux was ejected from the game for kneeing Alexey Toropchenko. St. Louis had 6:34 of power-play time on Thursday night and had two shots on goal, and one was during the 26 seconds of a 5-on-3 advantage.

At 5 on 5, the Blues had 0.99 expected goals, the first time this season they’ve been below one expected goal, according to Natural Stat Trick.

“I think doesn’t break out as well today,� Blues forward Pavel Buchnevich said. “Lots of times, just chuck the puck. Can’t get the speed and doesn’t put the puck on the goalline, and doesn’t get any forecheck. Just tough game for us.�

The Blues understand that their offensive attack won’t be the same while they’re without top-line center Robert Thomas and top-four defenseman Philip Broberg. That’s why they’ve preached a defensive mentality, and why they want to grind wins out in the interim. As they beat Toronto and Tampa Bay, the Blues embraced that and scrapped together enough offense to earn two points.

While the offense is limited, Kyrou has sparked both creativity and concern for the Blues.

When he scored on Thursday night, it was the third straight game that Kyrou scored after he went 10 games without a goal. He leads the Blues in just about every offensive category: goals (5), assists (7), points (12), shots (43) and shot attempts (87). Kyrou has 25 more shot attempts than his next closest teammate.

On Thursday, he led the Blues again with eight shot attempts, which piggybacked off his 10 attempts against Toronto on Tuesday, nine in Philadelphia on Oct. 31 and 10 in Montreal on Oct. 26. In the last three games, Kyrou has scored a third of the team’s goals.

But his mistakes have been loud and preventable. The Blues could have two (or more) points in the standings in recent games if Kyrou’s puck management was more in line with the game situation.

“Just time management there,� Kyrou said. “Three minutes left in the game. Instead of trying to drop it back, just put it in (deep). That’s it. It’s on me there.�

The timing of Kyrou’s error made it the most consequential of the evening, but the Blues allowed Kesselring to score just 18 seconds into the game when he beat Dylan Holloway up the ice and towards the Blues net.

It was the sixth straight game that the Blues fell behind 1-0.

“I think our brains were turned off,� Bannister said. “For whatever reason, I don’t know why. That play shouldn’t’ve happened. The D beat us up the ice, and we got puck-focused and not watching, checking our responsibilities. A little bit of a fluky goal, but if we’re doing our jobs, that goal doesn’t happen.�

Even after Kesselring’s goal, the Blues didn’t respond with a shot on goal until after the first television timeout of the game, a harbinger of what was to come Thursday night.

“We didn’t put pucks into areas where we were able to get pressure on it,� Bannister said. “When we did, our second guy was late arriving. It was too easy for them to break out. We didn’t put enough pressure on their defense early on when they went down to five (defensemen) to really generate much o-zone time.�

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The Blues understood that losing key players to injury would shift their style of play. But they still need to generate some offense to survive.

During a 4-2 loss to the Utah Hockey Club on Thursday night, the Blues failed to threaten much in the offensive zone. They had 10 shots on goal through two periods. It took them until after the first television timeout of the night to put a puck on net. ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ went the final 10:05 of the second period without a shot on goal. St. Louis finished with 15 shots.

Jordan Kyrou tied the game at 2 with 6:31 left in the third period, slapping a one-timer from the slot on a skilled setup by Pavel Buchnevich, who stick-handled through the Utah defense. But Dylan Guenther scored the game-winning goal off a Kyrou turnover with 3:21 left in the third period for Utah.

It was the second time in the past four games a Kyrou turnover became the game-winning goal for the opposition.

Matias Maccelli scored for Utah with 1:51 left in the second period on an unscreened shot from the top of the right circle that gave it a 2-1 lead. Michael Kesselring and Jack McBain (empty-netter) also scored for Utah, which was making its first trip to St. Louis since the Coyotes left Arizona.

Colton Parayko also scored for the Blues, and Joel Hofer made 27 saves.

The Blues play the fourth game of a five-game homestand on Saturday against Washington.

Offensive force?

When Parayko scored with 1:19 remaining in the first period to tie the game at 1, he tallied his fourth goal of the season. That tied him with Kyrou, Buchnevich, Jake Neighbours and Dylan Holloway for the team lead in goals. Entering Thursday, Colorado’s Cale Makar was the only defenseman in the NHL with five goals.

Parayko finished a Blues rush chance that was created by Neighbours’ work in the defensive zone by tipping a pass into the corner and then leading the break through the neutral zone. Neighbours kicked the puck out to Buchnevich as he entered the zone, and Paryako filled the middle lane.

As Parayko carried into the slot, Holloway opened up for a one-timer in the right circle. That drew the attention of Utah defenseman Mikhail Sergachev and opened a shooting lane for Parayko. Parayko has scored 10 goals in a season three times in his career, including last year, but never more than that.

The goal was also Parayko’s ninth point of the season in the 14th game of the season. Last season, it took him until game No. 28 to reach that mark. His career high for points is 35, also done three times and most recently in 2021-22.

A fight and an ejection

Twenty-nine seconds into the second period, Utah defenseman Maveric Lamoureux hit Alexey Toropchenko in a left-knee-on-left-knee collision inside the St. Louis zone. Blues defenseman Pierre-Olivier Joseph immediately stepped in to fight Lamoureux in Joseph’s first career fight.

Lamoureux was assessed a major penalty for kneeing, and the automatic game misconduct that comes with a major penalty. He was also given five minutes for fighting. Joseph, meanwhile, earned two for instigating, five for fighting and a 10-minute misconduct. The 10-minute misconduct is automatic when called for instigating.

The Blues ended up with three minutes of power play time but didn’t have a shot on goal.

Because of the sequence, both teams were down to five defensemen for most of the second period. Joseph was released from the box with less than two minutes remaining in the period, while Lamoureux’s night was over.

After one fight in the first 11 games of the season, Joseph’s was the Blues’ third in the past three games. Brayden Schenn and Buchnevich each had a fight in the win over the Maple Leafs.

Six in a row

For the sixth straight game, the Blues allowed the opposition to score the game’s first goal, and this time, it happened 18 seconds into the game, the fastest goal this season in the NHL. Utah defenseman Kesselring joined the rush and fumbled his way to sliding the puck between Joel Hofer’s pads.

Kesselring beat Holloway to the Blues net and received a flip pass from the red line from Clayton Keller. Kesselring looked to be attempting a move on Hofer, but the puck instead tapped off the toe of his stick and into the back of the net.

In 14 games this season, the Blues have trailed first in 10 of them. Entering Thursday, only Seattle had allowed the first goal more often than St. Louis.

Holloway in, Bortuzzo out

Holloway was back in the Blues lineup two nights after he was hospitalized when he was hit in the neck with a puck. He skated Thursday morning, and was a game-time decision, according to Blues coach Drew Bannister.

The Blues honored former defenseman Robert Bortuzzo on Thursday night in his first visit back to St. Louis since the team traded him last season. Bortuzzo played parts of 10 seasons with the Blues and was a healthy scratch for Utah on Thursday.

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Utah 4, Blues 2

Utah 1 1 2 — 4

St. Louis 1 0 1 — 2

First Period—1, Utah, Kesselring 3 (Keller, Schmaltz), 0:18. 2, St. Louis, Parayko 4 (Buchnevich, Neighbours), 18:41. ±Ê±ð²Ô²¹±ô³Ù¾±±ð²õ—Bolduc, STL (Holding), 2:55; Keller, UTA (Hooking), 12:21; Utah bench, served by Bjugstad (Too Many Men on the Ice), 13:55.

Second Period—3, Utah, Maccelli 3 (Guenther, Cooley), 18:09. ±Ê±ð²Ô²¹±ô³Ù¾±±ð²õ—St. Louis bench, served by Texier (Instigator), 0:29; Utah bench, served by Carcone (Kneeing), 0:29; P.Joseph, STL (Fighting), 0:29; Lamoureux, UTA (Fighting), 0:29; P.Joseph, STL (Misconduct), 0:29; Lamoureux, UTA (Misconduct), 0:29.

Third Period—4, St. Louis, Kyrou 5 (Buchnevich), 13:29. 5, Utah, Guenther 7, 16:39. 6, Utah, McBain 3 (Sergachev, Hayton), 19:56 (en). ±Ê±ð²Ô²¹±ô³Ù¾±±ð²õ—Toropchenko, STL (High Sticking), 0:45.

Shots on Goal—Utah 11-14-6—31. St. Louis 8-2-5—15.

Power-play opportunities—Utah 0 of 2; St. Louis 0 of 3.

³Ò´Ç²¹±ô¾±±ð²õ—Utah, Ingram 6-2-3 (15 shots-13 saves). St. Louis, Hofer 3-2-0 (30-27).

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When the Blues opened the regular season last month, defenseman Ryan Suter was slotted into the St. Louis lineup as a third-pairing defenseman, a role he hasn’t historically played throughout his 20-year NHL career.

Across the past nine games, as Suter stepped in for the injured Nick Leddy? Well, no one in the NHL averaged more five-on-five ice time than Suter.

Leddy has not played since the home opener on Oct. 15 because of a lower-body injury, and Suter has stepped in on the top pair alongside Colton Parayko. He’s skated a league-high 20:14 a night at five on five during that span, faced tough matchups, nearly twice as many defensive zone starts than offensive ones and has been used as one of the team’s primary penalty killers.

“That’s how it’s been the last few years, right?� Suter said. “Wherever you’re needed, you jump in and you do what’s asked. Now, this year, it’s unfortunate that guys have gotten hurt, but you want to be there to help wherever’s needed.�

Suter, 39, is the oldest skater in the league and the second-oldest player behind only Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury. He was bought out of the last season of his contract with Dallas over the summer and signed a bonus-laden contract with the Blues shortly after that. Suter is earning a league-minimum $775,000 salary, with an additional $2.225 million in potential bonuses.

(He’s already earned $225,000 of that by playing 10 games. His next checkpoint is at 30 games, when he’ll earn a $400,000 bonus.)

Leddy has not skated with the Blues in 10 days, meaning Suter is slated for more time playing with Parayko on the top pair.

“You have a guy that’s played close to 1,500 games and he just knows how to play the game,� Blues coach Drew Bannister said. “He stays within himself. The physical aspect that he brings that we need in our D pairings to really stop plays in our zone and allow our goalies to see the puck. Very efficient in moving pucks and then getting up in the play and finding holes to be available in the offense.�

When Suter signed with the Blues on July 10, it was assumed that he would be a natural fit alongside Justin Faulk on the second pairing. It was later announced that the Blues could be missing Torey Krug for the season, and Suter figured to be a natural replacement on his one-year deal.

In August, though, the Blues acquired Philip Broberg via offer sheet from Edmonton, and he was installed alongside Faulk during training camp. As a result, Suter began the season with Matthew Kessel on the third pair and logged fewer than 15 minutes in each of his first two games as a Blue.

Since then, Suter’s role has transformed completely, and Suter said, “You prepare to help the team in any way, and I was ready for it.�

It’s not just the heavy workload at five on five. It’s that it’s coming against top lines — Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner are the two forwards Suter has played the most against this season. It’s coming in the defensive zone — 28 shifts have begun in the defensive zone vs. 15 in the offensive zone. For the first time in five years, Suter has absorbed more than half of the available penalty-killing minutes.

Suter has had this type of defensive responsibility before during his top-pair days in Nashville, Minnesota and Dallas, but it almost always came with some offensive situations, whether it was zone deployment or power-play minutes. That hasn’t been the case in St. Louis.

“Whatever’s needed,� Suter said. “It’s fun to adapt to different situations and be put in and counted on in different roles.�

Since Suter’s promotion, the Blues have outscored opponents 13-6 during his minutes at five on five, and only three defensemen (Noah Hanifin, Alex Pietrangelo and J.J. Moser) have been on the ice for more goals.

The underlying number suggest that could change soon, though, as Blues goaltenders have saved 94.2% of shots, and Suter’s teammates have a 15.1% shooting percentage when he’s on the ice at five on five, according to Natural Stat Trick. That’s a 1.093 PDO, when the league average is 1.00.

Suter will turn 40 years old on Jan. 21 and would play his 1,500th game on Feb. 8 if he doesn’t miss a game between now and then. So for Bannister, it was easy to trust a bump in minutes for Suter.

“I think he’s gained that trust over the time that he’s been in the NHL, what he’s done over those years,� Bannister said.

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