ST. LOUIS — Torey Krug sustained a lower-body injury for the St. Louis Blues against the Minnesota Wild in Game 3 of the Western Conference First Round at Enterprise Center on Friday.
The defenseman appeared to injure his leg when he checked Wild forward Matt Boldy before limping off the ice.
Krug played 3:10 and was minus-1. The Blues were trailing 2-0 at the time of his injury.
Krug is the third defenseman for the Blues to be injured in as many games.
Nick Leddy sustained an upper-body injury in Game 1, a 4-0 win for St. Louis. Although he was able to finish that game, he was replaced in Game 2 by Calle Rosen, who played 16:34 and was minus-2.
Robert Bortuzzo sustained an upper-body injury when he appeared to be hit by a shot near his head in the first period of Game 2, a 6-2 win by Minnesota. He was replaced on Friday by Marco Scandella, who missed the Blues’ final regular-season game and the first two against the Wild because of a lower-body injury.
Prior to Game 3, Blues coach Craig Berube said they were going to have to rely on their top defensemen.
“(Justin) Faulk, Krug and (Colton) Parayko, they’re going to get a lot of ice time,” Berube said. “You’ve got to mix and match and get the right people on the ice against certain people. There’s not much more you can do other than that. They need to play.”
Parayko (9:31) and Faulk (9:50) each played more than nine minutes in the first period.
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