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.
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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.
