{"id":213771,"date":"2025-10-14T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/213771\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:40:06","slug":"jimmy-snuggerud-is-giving-the-blues-another-offensive-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/213771\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Snuggerud is giving the Blues another offensive weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The<a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/st-louis-blues\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> St. Louis Blues<\/a> are 2-1-0 to start the 2025-26 regular season, with wins over the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/flamesnation.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Calgary Flames<\/a> and <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/canucksarmy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. The team has seen production from several players, including Jake Neighbours\u2019 three goals, Nathan Walker and Pavel Buchnevich each with two assists, and Robert Thomas scoring a goal and assist of his own. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">But it\u2019s Jimmy Snuggerud, the 21-year-old who made his NHL debut last season, who leads the way with three points by way of two goals and an assist. Snuggerud, a 2022 first-round pick, dominated the NCAA with the University of Minnesota, scoring 135 points (66 goals and 69 assists) during his three seasons in the Big 10. Since signing an entry-level deal, his transition to the pro game has been as smooth as the team could hope. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Tuesday\u2019s episode of <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Slip_9dwafQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discuss Snuggerud\u2019s early impact on the group and where he fits into the Blues\u2019 forward corps. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler Yaremchuk: Dating back to last year, Snuggerud has got seven points in his last 10 games. This St. Louis team, I think I tend to overlook them, but when you take a peak at who they already have, and with Snuggerud being another piece in that group, I think the Blues are closer to being a team that\u2019s in the inner circle of Stanley Cup contenders than they are a team that\u2019s fighting for a playoff spot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carter Hutton: I agree. I guess for him, he\u2019s a guy who gets overlooked when we were predicting the Calder Trophy race. He\u2019s a little more mature of a player, I think he comes in a little less offensively dominant, like some of the guys like Ivan Demidov and Connor Bedard. Snuggerud fits in as a two-way, top-six guy who can do it all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You have some players up front like Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyrou, Pavel Buchneviceh and Brayden Schenn, you can put Snuggerud in a good spot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues are 2-1-0 to start the 2025-26 regular season, with wins over the Calgary Flames&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-213771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}