With the Ontario Reign season over, we will begin our player reviews for the 2025-26 season. Up first: Nikita Alexandrov! *Note: These player reviews will
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The St. Louis Blues acquired forward Akil Thomas from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for forward Nikita Alexandrov, the team announced Tuesday. The 25-year-old Thomas had four goals and nine assists for 13 points in 19 games with the Kings’ AHL affiliate, the Ontario Reign.
The Blues’ AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, had their season end last night when they were bounced in the first round by the Providence Bruins.
After the knee injury suffered by forward Patrik Laine, which will keep him out of play for a period of 5 to 6 months, Kent Hughes has to replace him. This could obviously be done internally, but it could also come from outside.
The St. Louis Blues have re-signed restricted free agent forward Nikita Alexandrov to a one-year, two-way contract for the 2024-25 season, the club announced Monday morning.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.