Jordan Kyrou has signed a new contract with the St. Louis Blues.

STL seem to be the kings of matching contracts.

Kyrou/Thomas
Schenn/Faulk/Krug/Parayko
ROR/Tarasenko

Cant wait to see the praise for this deal compared to the criticisms of Stutzle's.

You beat me to this exact point - good skill for Armstrong to have

I think it s mean:
Thomas and Kyrou - in
ROR and Tarasenko-out.

If you haven't figured out how big the cap jump is going to be this should really have you clueing in by now with another one of these 8 year mega bet deals.

If your team has signed a high profile bridge deal this year, (or is likely going to DALLAS) you're in for a bad time.

I voted yes cause Kyrou is emerging into a dynamic star winger but he still needs to put it all together for this to really be a good deal.

Too much imo. Maybe he'll live up to it, but imo it's just too much.

Great take boss .

One season of PPG play is too much to demand an $8 million EXTENSION. If he were an RFA and wasn't going to play this season, then sure. However, this isn't worth it.

I think he’ll live up to it, kinda like Stutzle or Tkachuk last year

All these naysayers are cracking me up big time. In a couple years, the Thomas and Kyrou extensions will be the envy of the league (if they secretly aren't already ). Of course, these are probably some of the same folks who laughed at me a couple years back for arguing these two were legit 1st line talents.

Blues GM is weird

He can extend his key young guys to good deals but then turns around and gives Nick Leddy a god awful extension

Either way he should live up to it. But this probs means ROR is gone

Even as a Blues fan, I am very skeptical of this deal. He’s fast... but he doesn’t play defense and gets muscled off of the puck too easily. When he gets moved down in the lineup (as Berube does, when you aren’t performing), he tends to be very pouty in his body language and post-game pressers. I hope he makes me eat my words, but I don’t think JK will ever be a franchise corner piece, because he isn’t a team player! There’s a reason he wasn’t on the 2019 SC Team.

ROR will be back! He’s our captain until 2030!
Vladi is obviously/definitely gone!

Name checks out

Thomas, YES!
Kyrou, NO!
Gotta play defense to be on the 1st line!

A lot of younger players are getting these long term contracts with sizable salaries.

Goes into the pile with the Stutzle and Thompson deals - it's a risk but you're betting on future production making it worthwhile.

First of all, history if filled with 1st line stars who only had a passing acquaintance with defense. More importantly, just because a young player makes some mistakes on defense doesn;t mean he never plays defense. That was his first full season, he's learning. Relax.

Another huge contract after only one good season. This makes Tage Thompson look like a bargain.

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this could go downwards very fast if he doesnt keep up the production that he did this year.. i think that they would've been fine giving him this contract after next szn

There is no longer a distinction between what star RFAs coming off their ELC and star UFAs (or RFAs selling off significant UFA years) get on long term deals. Teams get their RFA discounts on 2nd line players and bottom 6 players because those players have less leverage.

People will point to JT Miller signing for 8 million over 7 years as a criticism of the Stutzle or Kyrou deal. As in, why does a mystery box in Stutzle get more than a known near 100 point player in Miller. Well, Miller's contract starts the year he turns 31, and takes him well into his late 30s. There is an understanding that he won't be a 100 point player for the entire contract. Stutzle and Kyrou signed contracts that stretch through their prime years.

I think part of what we are seeing is that teams are motivated to lock up these players because there is an expectation that the cap is going to explode once escrow is repaid. 3-4 years from now, the norm could very well be 10 million for these kind of players, not 8.

I wanted to post this exact thing but didn't want to get lit up by Blues homers. I can't count the number of times he even "outskates" himself and loses the puck. He is VERY fast skater but stick handling and playmaking at that speed consistently aren't there yet. Maybe he will develop it or maybe he'll be a "Mike Hoffman" guy who plays a 100 foot game and power play specialist.

When the Blues lose Tarasenko and O'Reilly the team will cease to be a real threat; might be more entertaining but will not be an all-around contender.

Try not paying a fringe 1st liner around 8mil challenge is clearly impossible