{"id":261349,"date":"2025-11-04T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261349\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:51:09","slug":"nhl-veteran-milan-lucic-joins-blues-ahl-affiliate-on-professional-tryout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261349\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL veteran Milan Lucic joins Blues\u2019 AHL affiliate on professional tryout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST LOUIS \u2014 Veteran forward Milan Lucic has joined the St. Louis Blues\u2019 AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, on a professional tryout.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Vancouver native was with the Blues on a tryout during training camp before a lower-body injury kept him out of action. He scored a goal and an assist in four preseason games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lucic last played in 2023 with the Boston Bruins before entering the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program following his arrest in a domestic incident. He was charged with assault and battery on a family member, but the charge was dropped when his wife declined to testify.<\/p>\n<p>He was reinstated after completing the program earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Lucic has 233 goals, 353 assists and 1,301 penalty minutes in 1,177 career games with Boston, Los Angeles, Edmonton and Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the Bruins\u2019 2011 Stanley Cup championship team.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST LOUIS \u2014 Veteran forward Milan Lucic has joined the St. Louis Blues\u2019 AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[121113,23073,740,49,2798,48,23752,1522,19372,448,121114,82,121112,944,55],"class_list":["post-261349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ahl-affiliate","tag-blues","tag-boston-bruins","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-los-angeles","tag-milan-lucic","tag-nhl","tag-professional-tryout","tag-sports","tag-springfield-thunderbirds","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261349","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=261349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}