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ST. LOUIS — To say the St. Louis Blues are limping into their home game against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night would be an understatement.The Blues are limping figuratively with a 9-13-3 record http://www.coyotesproshop.com/authentic-oliver-ekman-larsson-jersey , the franchise’s worst start since beginning the 2006-07 season with a 7-15-3 mark.And now they are limping literally after announcing that captain Alex Pietrangelo was one of three players placed on injured reserve.Article continues below ...Pietrangelo (hand), forward Robby Fabbri (shoulder) and defenseman Carl Gunnarsson (upper body) were all put on IR. Forward Alexander Steen (concussion) is day to day.Pietrangelo, the Blues’ top defenseman, hurt the hand during the team’s 3-2 overtime win at Colorado on Friday. He is likely to have surgery.“Alex Pietrangelo sustained a hand injury, he’s been placed on long-term (injured reserve), so he’ll be re-evaluated around Christmas,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong told NHL.com on Monday afternoon before practice. “He’s talking to the doctors now. There’s the likelihood that he’ll have some surgery, yes.”Blues interim coach Craig Berube said it was a huge loss.“Logs a lot of minutes, plays in a lot of situations http://www.bruinsshoponline.com/authentic-anders-bjork-jersey , captain of your team,” Berube told NHL.com. “It’s tough, but there are other players who are going to get an opportunities here, and they have to step up. We all have to play well. The team has to play well.“When you have injuries, it’s very important that we stick together as a team and play well as a team.”Fabbri was injured in a 6-1 loss at Arizona on Saturday. It is the latest in a string of injuries that have sidelined him for 122 of the past 137 games, including two torn ACLs.“Robby Fabbri separated his shoulder. He’s been put on IR and will be evaluated around Christmas,” Armstrong told NHL.com. “His is a shoulder injury; I don’t think it’s a surgical candidate. I’m actually sure it’s not or else we’d be a lot longer than Christmas.”The Blues recalled forwards Jordan Nolan and Jordan Kyrou and defenseman Chris Butler from San Antonio of the American Hockey League.Wednesday’s game at Enterprise Center will be the first of three this season between the Blues and the Oilers. St. Louis took two of three last season from Edmonton.The Oilers are coming off of a 4-1 loss at Dallas on Monday that snapped a three-game winning streak.Left winger Jujhar Khaira scored the Oilers’ goal, as the team played with just 11 forwards after captain and leading scorer Connor McDavid and Ryan Spooner were scratched.“You’ve got to move on,” Oilers coach Ken Hitchcock told NHL.com. “You’ve got to be able to win games if you’re missing one guy. It’s not the end of the world.”The game will be a homecoming of sorts for Hitchcock http://www.bruinsshoponline.com/authentic-brad-marchand-jersey , who coached the Blues from 2011 to 2017. Hitchcock had a 248-124-41 record leading the Blues.“It was a hell of a six-year run,” he told NHL.com. “We were in a conference and a division that was strong. We were sitting there with Nashville and Chicago and then you’ve got LA, who was on a roll, and we were right in the mix with those teams.” RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes want their record to better reflect their performance and that will take winning more games.The next chance comes against the New Jersey Devils on Sunday at PNC Arena.The health of the Devils is worth watching for this game as the matchup comes on the tail end of games on back-to-back days.Article continues below ...Both teams need a pick-me-up.The Devils had a two-game winning streak snapped with Saturday’s overtime loss to visiting Detroit. The Hurricanes are 2-5-2 in a recent games, including a 4-1 home loss Saturday night to the Columbus Blue Jackets.“We didn’t have the desperation,” Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour said.It’s one of the few times that the Carolina coach has expressed disappointment on the effort side. “I think our record doesn’t indicate how well we’ve played,” Brind’Amour said of the season in general. “We probably deserved a few more wins there. But we’ve got to find a way to get those wins. There’s still another level to get to.”The Hurricanes have fallen into holes and had strong starts. There’s not a real trend there.“We’ve shown we can come back too,” Brind’Amour said http://www.bruinsshoponline.com/authentic-david-krejci-jersey , acknowledging that assessing personnel is ongoing in some areas. “We’ve got some real pleasant surprises that we didn’t think would be in the mix that have done really well.”The Hurricanes a good dose of shots on net, but they might not be quality opportunities. Those situations also have led to frustrations.“When you don’t score when you have created a lot of chances, then you press,” Brind’Amour said. “Then it opens up the other way, that’s when you get into trouble.”The Devils have put together some good periods and that’s encouraging for a team that has dealt with some lineup adjustments involving key players.“I think we’re playing with better structure than we were,” New Jersey coach John Hynes said.Devils center Nico Hischier is considered day to day with an upper-body injury, and defenseman Sami Vatanen went on injured reserve Saturday with a lower-body injury.“There’s a possibility (Hischier could play in Raleigh),” Hynes said. ” … He has made very good progress, but now any player in that situation is how can he play when he’s in battles Womens Jake DeBrusk Jersey , competitive battles and things like that.”Hischier had nine assists for the second most on the team before he sustained the injury last Sunday.As a rookie last season, Hischier produced four points across four games against the Hurricanes.Without Vatanen, whose absence Saturday marked the first game he missed this season, the Devils have to compensate in other ways.“When you lose a guy like Sami, particularly on ‘D,’ you have to have a collective response by your ‘D’ core,” Hynes said. “You’re not going to have one guy to pick up the minutes he plays.”The Hurricanes, who are halfway through a six-game homestand, had four days off before this weekend of back-to-back games. Goalie Scott Darling has worked in the last three games Patrice Bergeron Jersey , but after a rather ragged outing Saturday night, it’s likely they’ll go in a different direction for the game against New Jersey.Devils goalie Keith Kinkaid played Saturday against Detroit. He was used in all four 2017-18 meetings with the Hurricanes when the Devils posted a 3-1-0 mark.This is the first of four meetings between the teams this season, though the Devils won’t return to Carolina until April.