Blues Game Day: Sanford moved up to O’Reilly-Perron line

If nothing else, Berube said that game should help the Blues from a confidence standpoint entering tonight’s contest.

“Binnington played really well in net,” Berube said. “I thought for the most part we played a pretty solid game. We let ‘em come at us in the third period too much, and gave ‘em too many opportunities.

“We just gotta be a confident team tonight. I think more than anything, we played this team tentative at times and we can’t have that attitude tonight.”

Overall for this season, the Blues are 2-3-1 against Vegas, but have been outscored 26-15 overall, and outshot by an average of 11 shots on goal per game.

“They’re a high-volume team,” Berube said. “They have really good skill and they make plays. They’re as good as any team in the league in my opinion at making plays in their transition game and the offensive zone. We’re gonna have to check well, we’re gonna have to be really good in the neutral zone. . .just defending with numbers and winning puck battles and things like that.

“They stay on it, they’re a competitive team and they hound hard. They keep coming at you.”

Vegas enforcer Ryan Reaves, the former Blue, took part in the morning skate but won’t play tonight. Robin Lehner is expected to start in goal for the Knights.