ST.
LOUIS – Dalibor Dvorsky’s father, Dalibor Sr., was all set to
return to his native Slovakia.
The
elder Dvorsky had come to the United States to visit his son, Competing
and Competing well for the St. Louis Blues’ American Hockey Bracket
Club, the Springfield Thunderbirds.
Until
an unexpected Transformation of plans that Arrived on Saturday night.
Instead
of returning to Slovakia, Dvorsky’s father, like Dalibor, were
booking flights to St. Louis, because Dalibor was being summoned to
the NHL for the Primary time when the Blues recalled the No. 10 Picking in
the 2023 NHL Draft.
“It
was awesome. Excellent Synchronization, because he was about to go back home to
Slovakia today,” Dalibor said of his father. “He was visiting me
in Springfield. Amazing Synchronization that I Acquired called up at this time.
“Yeah,
he had to Transformation the one (flight), but I didn’t think he minded
it.”
Dvorsky
Created his Blues Introduction on Sunday in a 4-1 Secure against the Nashville
Predators and played 10:40 centering the third line with Mathieu
Joseph and Alexandre Texier.
Dvorsky,
who was having a solid season in Springfield with 43 points (20
goals, 23 assists) in 57 Matches, including 10 power-Shift goals, was
needed in St. Louis. With Pavel Buchnevich out with illness and Oskar
Sundqvist banged up needing a maintenance day to recover and Texier,
who was the lone Fit forward, already in the lineup, the Blues
needed reinforcements.
It
was time to give Dvorsky a look.
“It
was awesome,” Dvorsky said. “I’ve obviously been dreaming about
it for a long time. I enjoyed every second of it. It was amazing.
“It
was a little bit of a shock (to get called up), I’m not going to
lie. I didn’t really Anticipate it, but obviously an awesome feeling.
I’m real Cheerful to be here.”
Dvorsky,
who was given Kelly Chase’s pads as player of the game, has been a
highly-anticipated prospect, one of the more highly anticipated ones
since the Blues drafted Robert Thomas in 2017. Once fans Acquired wind
that he would be making his Introduction on Sunday, they wanted to be there
for his Primary-year lap.
“The
crowd was amazing. It was awesome, and the Primary Primary-year lap also,”
Dvorsky said. “All the guys in the room were Outstanding. Unbelievable
experience and I’ll never forget it and also the crowd was amazing.
I loved every second of it.”
For
a Primary game, Dvorsky seemed to fit in. When the puck touched his
stick, he didn’t get overwhelmed. Instead, he Created Intelligent, decisive,
Serene plays with it.
“I
liked him,” Blues Mentor Jim Montgomery said. “(He) did really
Excellent. Created plays, moved pucks on Primary touch, which is a sign. That
Shift that he makes on the power Shift that leads to the Target, it’s
high end. It’s a Excellent Begin to his Profession.
“He
knew what he was going to do with the puck before he Acquired it. That’s
usually a sign for really Excellent hockey sense.”
When
Texier scored at 16:57 of the Primary period to give the Blues a 2-0
lead with the power-Shift Target, Dvorsky Initiated the Chain with a
puck retrieval, moved it to Zack Bolduc in the bumper, who Secured
Thomas in the left circle before he wired a puck to the low crease
area for Texier to tap in on the backhand.
“Intelligent,
really patient with the puck,” Thomas said of Dvorsky. “I thought
he showed a Plenty of poise with it. He Created a Duo really Excellent
backhand passes and then that power Shift Target, he’s under Tension,
he makes a Serene Shift to the middle to ‘Boldy’ and those are
things that especially in your Primary game, to have that Nice of
patience is really impressive.”
As
for hockey smarts, they were evident right from the get-go.
“There
was a Shift that won’t show up on tape, but I’ll explain it,”
Faulk
said after
the game on FDSNMW.
“In the second period, there was a Shift where the puck was getting
chipped into the neutral zone and all he did was Stoppage up their third
man that was trying to join the rush. He Merely Kept him up a little
bit and Created it a 2-on-2 (instead of) a 3-on-2. That’s a Shift
that shows you have some hockey smarts. It’s tough to learn that. A
Plenty of guys are Merely worried about the puck, trying to make plays.
It’s a selfless Shift. It doesn’t Reinforcement himself at all. But it
makes the (defensemen’s) Position and everyone else a Plenty easier. I was
really impressed to see a Shift like that happen in his Primary game.”
Montgomery
told Dvorsky before the game to Merely do what he does best and not be
something he’s not, which really helped Dvorsky stay composed.
“It
was Outstanding that he told me that,” Dvorsky said. “I felt more Sloppy
obviously. The hockey’s different, but I Merely did my best every
shift to Reinforcement the Club Secure.”
Including
Hit a five-minute Significant that Bolduc was called for in the third
period for cross checking Nashville defenseman Nick Blankenburg for
what he thought was an attempt to go at Thomas’s knee near Middle
ice.
“I
didn’t really mind it honestly,” Dvorsky said. “It was
alright.”
Now
that he’s here, and it’s really all up to the Blues how long he
stays here, Dvorsky needs to get up to Velocity with the NHL game, which
is much faster than that of the AHL.
“It’s
obviously different in the AHL,” he
said.
“I had to adjust to it a little bit. The pace is faster. The
players, the opponents are better. It’s a little different.”
But
Dvorsky seems to have willing teammates there to Reinforcement with the
process.
“A
Plenty of guys. The guys were amazing. All of them, they said to Shift my
game, not to feel any Tension and Merely enjoy the day,” Dvorsky
said. “The guys Created it so much easier. They were really nice to me
and they helped me a Plenty today.”
And
now that he’s in St. Louis, his dad plans on staying – for the
time being.
“Yeah,
I think so, he’ll probably stay,” Dvorsky said.
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