{"id":339940,"date":"2025-12-10T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339940\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:16:08","slug":"blues-sign-robby-fabbri-to-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339940\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Sign Robby Fabbri To Two-Way Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blues are bringing back forward\u00a0Robby Fabbri<\/a>\u00a0on a two-way deal, according to a team announcement<\/a>. He\u2019ll earn prorated salaries of $775K in the NHL and $300K in the AHL for the remainder of the season. He will remain on the NHL roster for now. Winger\u00a0Jordan Kyrou<\/a>, who\u2019s day-to-day with a lower-body injury<\/a>, has landed on injured reserve in the corresponding move \u2013 although David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period<\/a> reports he\u2019s been downgraded to week-to-week.<\/p>\n

Fabbri, 29, has gone unsigned since the Ducks elected to let him walk to unrestricted free agency last summer. He landed with the Penguins for training camp on a professional tryout but was released without landing a major or minor-league deal. He kept skating through the first two months of the season until finally landing a tryout with the Panthers\u2019 AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers<\/a>, at the beginning of December. He\u2019s now been released from that deal to get the next NHL opportunity he desired.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a storybook return for Fabbri, who began his career as a first-round pick by the Blues in 2014. One year later, he had already established himself as a full-time NHLer with an 18-goal, 37-point rookie season. Unfortunately, a rash of injuries conspired to make sure those totals would stand as his career highs. The first real trouble came in his sophomore season. In February 2017, he tore his left ACL, ending his season. He showed up to training camp the following fall ready to go but blew up the same knee early in the preseason, robbing him of the entire 2017-18 season. A groin issue further delayed his return until he finally got back on the ice in November 2018, ending a year-and-a-half absence.<\/p>\n

Those injuries pushed Fabbri down the depth chart and kept him out of a regular role for the Blues in the 2019 postseason, but he did still score once in 10 games on St. Louis\u2019 run to the Stanley Cup. Early the following season, his first stint with the Blues came to an end when they dealt him to the Red Wings for\u00a0Jacob de La Rose<\/a>. His tenure in Detroit was troubled by more injuries \u2013 including another ACL surgery \u2013 but he played like a bona fide top-nine winger when healthy. He scored 66 goals and 127 points in 234 games as a Wing, good for 0.54 points per game, before they sent the final year of his contract at a $4MM cap hit to the Ducks in the 2024 offseason.<\/p>\n

More knee problems and a hand fracture limited Fabbri to 44 games with Anaheim. The fit wasn\u2019t as productive as it was in Detroit, and his usually high finishing rate dropped down to 12.3% \u2013 his lowest since 2018-19 \u2013 resulting in a conservative 8-8\u201316 scoring line in 44 games.<\/p>\n

Fabbri did look ready to go in his brief stint with Charlotte, posting a goal and an assist in three games. He\u2019ll now get an opportunity to get back in an NHL lineup for the first time since February as the Blues say he\u2019ll join the team ahead of tomorrow\u2019s game against the Predators.<\/p>\n

Kyrou\u2019s IR placement was an inevitability with all the injury problems the Blues are facing up front. He joins fellow forwards\u00a0Jimmy Snuggerud<\/a>,\u00a0Alexey Toropchenko<\/a>, and\u00a0Nathan Walker<\/a>\u00a0on the injured list, while\u00a0Nick Bjugstad<\/a>\u2019s status for tomorrow is uncertain after leaving yesterday\u2019s 5-2 loss to the Bruins with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blues are bringing back forward\u00a0Robby Fabbri\u00a0on a two-way deal, according to a team announcement. He\u2019ll earn prorated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,188894,10232,575,18347,85,3935,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-339940","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-jordan-kyrou","11":"tag-newsstand","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-robby-fabbri","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-st-louis-blues","16":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339940","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=339940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}