{"id":447079,"date":"2026-02-01T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447079\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T11:11:08","slug":"blues-thomas-has-surgery-out-until-after-olympic-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447079\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues\u2019 Thomas has surgery, out until after Olympic break"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Blues<\/a> will be without their most productive player for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Robert Thomas<\/a> has undergone a minor leg procedure and is expected to be out through the Olympic break.<\/p>\n

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman first reported the news on the Saturday Headlines segment of Hockey Night in Canada, and it was later announced<\/a> by the team.<\/p>\n

According to Friedman, Thomas underwent surgery earlier in the week and it was a “small cleanup,” which might “slow down” any trade conversations involving the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n

Thomas is in Year 3 of an eight-year deal with an AAV of $8.125 million.<\/p>\n

He leads the Blues with 33 points through his 42 appearances this season (11 goals, 22 assists), holding a minus-3 mark in that span. Thomas also leads St. Louis in face-off wins (379) and is second in takeaways (22).<\/p>\n

Despite Thomas’ individual production, St. Louis has not found similar success this season, currently seventh in the Central Division thanks to a 20-25-9 record entering Saturday. All of which has prompted chatter on the former Stanley Cup champ’s future outlook with the squad that originally selected Thomas with the 20th-overall pick in the 2017 draft.<\/p>\n

He’s since racked up 508 appearances for the franchise over eight seasons, logging 118 goals and 311 assists for 429 points and a plus-43 mark in that span.<\/p>\n

Friedman went on to reiterate that the injury is “not serious” and it won’t cost the Aurora, Ont., native the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

St. Louis plays the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night and then has just two games remaining before the Olympic break begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues will be without their most productive player for the foreseeable future. Robert Thomas has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-447079","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\/447079","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=447079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}