{"id":320832,"date":"2025-12-02T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T16:10:08","slug":"kings-trade-f-akil-thomas-to-blues-for-f-nikita-alexandrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/320832\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings trade F Akil Thomas to Blues for F Nikita Alexandrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of AHL centres are switching homes.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, a second-round pick of the Kings in 2018, has appeared in 32 career NHL games, posting four goals and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Toronto native has spent the entire season in the AHL, tallying four goals and nine assists over 19 games with the Ontario Reign.<\/p>\n<p>He will report to the Blues&#8217; AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandrov, also 25, has spent his whole season in Springfield, racking up three goals and 11 helpers in 18 contests.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 second-round pick born in Germany has suited up in 51 career NHL games \u2014 though none since two seasons ago \u2014 with three goals and six assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of AHL centres are switching homes. Thomas, a second-round pick of the Kings in 2018, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-320832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320832","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=320832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}