{"id":401810,"date":"2026-01-11T03:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401810\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T03:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T03:51:08","slug":"st-louis-blues-give-philip-broberg-48-million-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401810\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues give Philip Broberg $48 million extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 10, 2026, 06:58 PM ET<\/p>\n

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues<\/a> signed defenseman Philip Broberg<\/a> to a six-year, $48 million contract extension, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

Broberg, recently named to Sweden’s team for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, is in his second season with the Blues after signing with the team as a restricted free agent in August 2024.He has two goals and 12 assists in 45 games this season, after scoring eight goals with 21 assists in 68 regular-season games last season.<\/p>\n

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“It’s exciting to have him here for this year, plus six more,” general manager Doug Armstrong said. “That takes him right through the meat of his prime years. … He’s a player, I think, on the back end that we can build around.”<\/p>\n

Broberg, 24, has played in 194 career regular-season games, totaling 56 points (12 goals, 44 assists), 32 penalty minutes and a plus-16 rating.<\/p>\n

He has also appeared in 27 career postseason games, including 10 in 2023-24 when he helped the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> reach the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n

He was drafted eighth overall by the Oilers in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 10, 2026, 06:58 PM ET ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues signed defenseman Philip Broberg to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-401810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401810","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=401810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}