{"id":308789,"date":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308789\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:22:07","slug":"milan-lucic-released-from-professional-tryout-with-blues-ahl-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308789\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan Lucic released from professional tryout with Blues&#8217; AHL affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/st-louis-blues\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"st-louis-blues\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> will not be where Milan Lucic resumes his NHL career, if he does at all.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced Tuesday that Lucic has been released from his professional tryout with their AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old was initially signed by the Blues to a PTO in August ahead of training camp. He appeared in four pre-season games, recording one goal and one assist before being sidelined with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>After his recovery, Lucic signed another PTO with the Thunderbirds at the beginning of November. He posted one assist in five games for the club.<\/p>\n<p>Per Blues reporter and host Andy Strickland, Lucic has now returned to his hometown of Vancouver and is trying to determine his next steps. <\/p>\n<p>Lucic last played in the NHL during the 2023-2024 season, appearing in four games for the\u00a0Boston Bruins. At that time, Lucic took an indefinite leave of absence from the Bruins and later entered the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program. The Blues said in the summer that he had completed the program and been reinstated by the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors dropped a domestic violence charge against Lucic in February 2024 after he was arrested in November 2023 on suspicion of assault and battery on a family member.<\/p>\n<p>Lucic has 233 goals and 353 assists for 586 points in 1,177 career games with the Bruins, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues will not be where Milan Lucic resumes his NHL career, if he does at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-308789","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\/308789","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=308789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}