Blues Head Coach Jim Montgomery will split up his top line of Jake Neighbours, Robert Thomas and Pavel Buchnevich on Monday when his club meets the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena (5 p.m. CT, FanDuel Sports Network,

Blues aren't learning from poor starts; special teams was a disaster; confidence is sorely missing adds up to third straight loss

Evgenii Dadonov had a goal and an assist, Casey DeSmith stopped 33 shots in his second shutout of the season and the Dallas Stars beat the St.

During Blues practice on Sunday morning in Las Vegas, coach Jim Montgomery shuffled his lines, which notably featured splitting up Robert Thomas and Pavel Buchnevich.

Connor Ingram stopped 22 shots. Tyler Tucker and Jake Neighbours scored for the Blues, and Jordan Binnington had 29 saves. Tucker put St. Louis on the board first 2:05 into the game, snapping in a long-distance goal when Oskar Sundqvist flipped the puck ...

Jake Neighbours recorded their 10th shot on ... and a half minutes remaining in the third period, and it paid off. Justin Faulk passed to Pavel Buchnevich, who fired a clapper on net.

Pavel Buchnevich took a pass from Justin Faulk in the left faceoff ... moving Brandon Saad onto a line with Thomas and Jake Neighbours and dropping Buchnevich down with Oskar Sundqvist and Alexey ...