St. Louis Blues Closing in On Major Contract Extension with Their Budding Star

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Jon
September 10, 2022 (5:09 PM)

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Jordan Kyrou exploded for 75 points in 74 games in 2021-22, and the St. Louis Blues have one more year of the talented forward at his bargain-bin $2.8 million salary. Looking around at all the big-ticket deals getting signed in the NHL today, the Blues will need to throw Kyrou a similar deal to the one they gave his teammate Robert Thomas. Andy Strickland of Bally Sports-Midwest reports that the two sides are engaged in promising discussions and a deal could be made any day now.

The Blues drafted Kyrou 35th overall in 2016, and he has turned out to be an absolute steal at that pick. In 173 NHL games, the Toronto-native has scored 122 points, and in 12 playoff games for the Blues last year, he scored 9 points. Clubs salivate over that kind of playoff production, and aside from that Kyrou is a force all over the ice. He might do well to tighten things up defensively, but with the type of offensive output he posted last season, I doubt head coach Craig Berube minds too much.

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If the Blues can ink their budding star to a contract similar to Thomas' ~$8 million cap hit, consider that a major win for the organization. The current market rate for young studs is only getting less and less favorable from a GM's standpoint, so might as well take the chance on him now.

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