Tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET, the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks skate against each other in Game 3 of their Round 1 best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoffs series live from the United Center in Chicago. The game can be live streamed for free here. St. Louis fans can hear all of the action on KMOX 1120 while Chicago fans can do the same on WGN 720.
St. Louis did what it needed to do at home and notched two wins to open up the series with both games going to overtime while Chicago will hope that coming home will enable them to get into this series. The Blue Jackets notched 4-3 overtime wins on Thursday and Saturday over the Blackhawks.
The Blues will be without center David Backes after he was hit illegally by Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook in Game 2 and was injured. Seabrook, who has four points (two goals, two assists) to lead Chicago in the series, received a three-game ban for his hit.
"It's not retaliation," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said of his team's motivation after the hit via NHL.com. "We want to win, they want to win. [The] game's full of emotion. It's about playing your best. Whatever you have to do, you have to do. It's a nasty, physical, intense series. That's what playoff hockey's about."
St. Louis will have center Patrik Berglund back in the lineup after he sat the first two games with an upper-body injury.
The Blackhawks are hoping to put their struggles in the first two games behind them.
"I think we've done a decent job with getting chances, but we're playing a little too much on the perimeter," forward Brandon Saad said Sunday per NHL.com. "If we get pucks to the point and get guys to the net, then pucks seem to find their way in. So, from an offensive [point of view], being a forward, we've got to do that more often."
Saad is second to Seabrook on the team with three points on the series, all off of assists.
Vladimir Tarasenko has a goal in each of the first two games for the Blues while defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk paces the team with four points off of one tally and three helpers.
Ryan Miller will suit up for St. Louis in net after winning in each of the first two games and allowing six goals on 70 shots while Corey Crawford will man the crease for Chicago after allowing two overtime game-winners and eight goals overall on 83 shots.
The Blues look to take a 3-0 series lead while the Blackhawks hope to get their first win of the series when the lights come on at the United Center tonight in Chicago for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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