Blues Caps Preseason game

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Some takeaways from this game, besides Fitzpatrick giving up a Roman Turek type/Jon Casey type game-winning goal, Toropchenko while not getting on the scoresheet played exactly the style of play the Blues expect - get the puck in the zone. If you can't get it to the net, get it to the corner, forecheck, and wait for support. If you can get it to the net, get it there and drive the net. It's exactly what they would expect from a bottom six guy.

Outside of that, the Blues PK - which had guys who don't normally pull PK duty pulling PK duty - looked really ugly. PP had a little more directing pucks down low when possible with guys going to the net looking for the redirect. I did like how Reinke works on collapsing the diamond (it was more of a diamond than a box setup) after he moves the puck.