Blues to face Canucks in playoff quarterfinals, starting Wednesday

The St. Louis Blues will face the Vancouver Canucks when they open the Western Conference playoff quarterfinals Wednesday night.

Game 1 of the best-of-seven series vs. the Canucks is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. Central time.

The games will be played in the Western Conference hub of Edmonton, where they went 0-2-1 in the round-robin seeding games, making them the No. 4 seed in the conference after being the No. 1 team in the West when the regular season was paused in March.

The Blues lost to Dallas in a shootout Sunday after losing in regulation to Colorado and Vegas.

The television schedule for the series will be announced later.

The quarterfinal round schedule:

Game Day, Date Time (Central)
Game 1 Wednesday, Aug. 12 9:30 p.m.
Game 2 Friday, Aug. 14 5:30 p.m.
Game 3 Sunday, Aug. 16 9:30 p.m.
Game 4 Monday, Aug. 17 9:30 p.m.
Game 5* Wednesday, Aug. 19 TBD
Game 6* Friday, Aug. 21 TBD
Game 7* Sunday, Aug. 23 TBD
* If necessary