The Blues are shuffling their blue line again, and tomorrow’s game against the Detroit Red Wings will come with a different look.
St. Louis activated defenseman Logan Mailloux from injured reserve and brought up Calle Rosén from the Springfield Thunderbirds, the team announced.
The roster moves didn’t stop there, either. The Blues also sent prospect defensemen Adam Jiricek and Theo Lindstein back to AHL Springfield.
Mailloux is expected to line up with Philip Broberg on St. Louis’ top pair tomorrow night, while Rosén is projected to fill the role of the club’s seventh defenseman.
Mailloux, 23, has been working his way back from surgery after a fight with Chicago Blackhawks forward Cole Smith in a preseason game. He just wrapped up his first season with the Blues after arriving from the Montreal Canadiens.
That season came in two very different stretches. Before the Olympic Break, Mailloux had one goal and three points in 42 games, along with a -23 rating and just under 15 minutes of ice time per night.
After the league returned in late February, he looked far more settled. Over his final 25 games, Mailloux scored four goals and 10 points, posted a +13 rating and averaged 22:34 of ice time.
Rosén, 32, is getting his first NHL call-up of the season after clearing waivers before the year began. He has spent most of the last few seasons in the organization, aside from a year and a half with the Colorado Eagles and Hershey Bears. Since coming back to the Blues organization last season, Rosén has played 73 games, all with Springfield, while putting up 11 goals and 37 points with a -15 rating.
The assignments of Jiricek and Lindstein are about playing time as much as anything else. Both are among St.
Louis’ top defensive prospects, and the organization wants them logging regular minutes rather than sitting in limited roles. Jiricek had appeared in every game for the Blues this season, but he wasn’t getting much ice and wasn’t especially effective when he was on the ice.
Lindstein also saw limited action and had only played in a handful of games.
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