{"id":615608,"date":"2026-04-20T01:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:57:13","slug":"if-robert-thomas-was-available-for-trade-before-he-shouldnt-have-been-nor-should-be-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615608\/","title":{"rendered":"If Robert Thomas Was Available For Trade Before, He Shouldn&#8217;t Have Been, Nor Should Be Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow,<br \/>\nwhat the reality of not just the St. Louis Blues is, they have<br \/>\nno-trades. It\u2019s a 50-50 relationship. It\u2019s not 100-0 or 0-100,<br \/>\nmeaning they can say, \u2018I don\u2019t like the direction of the team.<br \/>\nTrade me,\u2019 and we\u2019ll say, \u2018No, we\u2019re not going to trade you.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re not getting what we like. So your job is to come and work.\u2019<br \/>\nOr we could say, \u2018We\u2019re going to trade you,\u2019 and they could<br \/>\nsay, \u2018How about no, I\u2019m going to stay.\u2019 It\u2019s a 50-50<br \/>\nrelationship right now. We\u2019d love to work together with them, we\u2019d<br \/>\nlove that they can achieve their goals and we can achieve our goals<br \/>\nwhether it\u2019s together or apart, but neither side owns the ultimate<br \/>\nhammer in that. I don\u2019t want to just say this is a Parayko-Thomas<br \/>\nthing, this is anybody that\u2019s got a no-trade clause in the league,<br \/>\nhas the same relationship with their manager and it is 50-50.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNow, what the reality of not just the St. Louis Blues is, they have no-trades. It\u2019s a 50-50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-615608","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\/615608","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=615608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}