While the NHL preseason is for most fans a low-stakes affair as the results of games don’t matter for the standings, they are often extremely high-stakes affairs for many of the players involved – many of whom are looking to secure a spot in the NHL for the upcoming season. The competition for limited roster spots is often fierce, and one of the fiercest appears to be playing out in St. Louis, where four forwards of varying experience and talent levels are competing for three roster spots. The Athletic’s Jeremy Rutherford indicated that PTO signee Milan Lucic , 2023 first-rounder Dalibor Dvorsky , and veterans Mathieu Joseph and Alexandre Texier are competing for a likely three roster spots between them.

Out of that group, the clear “odd one out” appears to be Lucic, who

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