{"id":24001,"date":"2025-07-26T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24001\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:47:07","slug":"blues-re-sign-nikita-alexandrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24001\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Re-Sign Nikita Alexandrov"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blues have taken care of their final remaining restricted free agent.\u00a0 The team announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve re-signed winger Nikita Alexandrov<\/a> to a one-year, two-way contract.\u00a0 The deal will pay $775K in the NHL, $300K in the AHL, and has a guaranteed salary of $350K.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old was a second-round pick by St. Louis back in 2019, going 62nd overall after a solid showing with QMJHL Charlottetown that had him hovering at just under a point per game.\u00a0 Alexandrov was able to eclipse that mark the following year with 23 goals and 31 assists in 42 games before turning pro in the COVID-shortened 2020-21 season that saw him spend most of the year in Finland plus a handful of games with AHL Utica.<\/p>\n

After one full season with AHL Springfield, the Blues thought Alexandrov was ready for an NHL look in 2022-23, giving him 28 appearances in primarily a fourth-line role where he had seven points.\u00a0 The following year, he received 23 contests in St. Louis where he notched a pair of assists, seemingly putting him in the mix for a longer-term NHL chance heading into last season.<\/p>\n

However, that wasn\u2019t the case.\u00a0 Instead, Alexandrov was cut with around a week left in training camp and aside from being a Black Ace recall late in the playoffs, he played exclusively with Springfield.\u00a0 He had his best showing in the minors, notching 21 goals and 28 assists in 48 games while also missing nearly two months with a lower-body injury along the way.\u00a0 Over his career in the AHL, Alexandrov has 58 goals and 71 assists in 170 contests.<\/p>\n

A return to the minors may be a little more difficult for Alexandrov as he\u2019s waiver-eligible.\u00a0 That means he\u2019ll have to get through waivers unclaimed in order to return to the Thunderbirds.\u00a0 If that happens, he\u2019ll be in line to play a big role in Springfield once again in the hopes of getting recalled while getting more than double his AHL salary from 2024-25.\u00a0 However, a strong training camp performance could also be enough to land him a spot with St. Louis, especially if they\u2019re concerned about him getting claimed off the waiver wire given his offensive success from last season in the minors.\u00a0 Suffice it to say, Alexandrov\u2019s performance in training camp a couple of months from now will go a long way toward dictating what happens to him next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues have taken care of their final remaining restricted free agent.\u00a0 The team announced that they\u2019ve re-signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,23872,85,3935,206],"class_list":["post-24001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-nikita-alexandrov","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001","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=24001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}