Schenn's acquisition couldn't have come at a better time, considering the Blues recently learned that forward Patrik Berglund dislocated his left shoulder while training in Sweden. Berglund had 23 goals and 11 assists in 82 games last season.
"Everything (with the surgery) went very well," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. "The doctors and Patrik are happy with the result, but with that result comes a timetable. We'll re-evaluate him in early December to see where he's at. We're hoping to get him back sometime in that time frame.
"We'll move someone into the middle now. You could go with [Paul] Stastny, and then Schenn, and then you have an option to put [Vladimir] Sobotka back in there, [Ivan] Barbashev's played in there, the young player we got from Pittsburgh (in a draft-day trade for Ryan Reaves) is a centerman, [Oskar] Sundqvist, that's the role he can play. We have some internal options. We'll explore those."