{"id":135001,"date":"2025-09-11T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135001\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:53:07","slug":"blues-sign-prospects-justin-carbonneau-nikita-susuev-to-entry-level-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/135001\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues sign prospects Justin Carbonneau, Nikita Susuev to entry-level deals"},"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> announced on Wednesday that <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\/news\/blues-sign-carbonneau-susuev-to-entry-level-contracts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">they have signed prospects<\/a> Justin Carbonneau and Nikita Susuev to three-year, two-way entry-level contracts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carbonneau was the team\u2019s first-round pick in June\u2019s 2025 NHL draft, chosen with the No. 19 overall pick. According to Daily Faceoff draft expert Steven Ellis, he was the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/st-louis-blues-justin-carbonneau-19-overall-2025-nhl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15th-ranked prospect<\/a> in the draft class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cGreat skater? Check,\u201d Ellis wrote. \u201cExcellent shot release? Absolutely. Carbonneau loves to make big, flashy, high-end plays and often comes out on the right side of it. He could probably use his linemates a bit better, but I think his willingness to do whatever it takes to generate offense will pay off in the NHL. Carbonneau needs to work on his shot selection and location, but there\u2019s a ton of potential here for him to become a similar player to Brock Boeser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Carbonneau finished his draft year with 46 goals and 89 points in 62 games played for the QMJHL\u2019s Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Susuev was the team\u2019s 2023 seventh-round pick, and he comes to North America with 55 games of experience in the KHL under his belt. The 20-year-old has nine career points in Russia\u2019s top league. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The Blues are set to open up their training camp on September 18, with both Carbonneau and Susuev on the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\/news\/blues-begin-2025-training-camp-on-sept-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">initial training camp roster<\/a>. St. Louis will kick off a seven-game preseason schedule on September 20 with a road game against the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/dallas-stars\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a>. Their first regular season game comes at home on October 9 against the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/minnesota-wild\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The Blues will look to qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs once again in the 2025-2026 season. The team bowed out in the first round last year with a dramatic Game 7 loss at the hands of the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/winnipeg-jets\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>. St. Louis finished with a record of 44-30-8, and qualified for the postseason to snap a two-year drought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues announced on Wednesday that they have signed prospects Justin Carbonneau and Nikita Susuev to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-135001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}