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,

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 ...

Blues forward Jake Neighbours participated in optional morning skate on Thursday morning, one day after he left practice early with an upper-body injury.