{"id":758092,"date":"2026-06-24T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758092\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:06:14","slug":"blues-trade-jordan-kyrou-to-capitals-for-connor-mcmichael-milton-gastrin-and-2026-no-16-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/758092\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues trade Jordan Kyrou to Capitals for Connor McMichael, Milton Gastrin and 2026 No. 16 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> have traded forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jordan-kyrou\/8479385\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jordan-kyrou\/8479385\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Kyrou<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> in exchange for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcmichael\/8481580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcmichael\/8481580\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McMichael<\/a>, prospect forward Milton Gastrin and the 16th overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kyrou, 28, had 18 goals and 46 points in 72 games with the Blues last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-1 centre is entering the fourth season of an eight-year, $65 million contract that carries an annual cap hit of $8.125 million. He is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2030-31 campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 35th overall by the Blues in 2016, Kyrou has 168 goals and 378 points in 488 career games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kyrou represented the Blues at the 2022 All-Star Game in Las Vegas and put up 27 goals and a career-high 75 points during that season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McMichael, 25, recorded 14 goals and 46 points in 78 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot winger is coming off a two-year, $4.2 million contract that carried a cap hit of $2.1 million and is a restricted free agent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McMichael broke through as a top-six forward on the Capitals in 2024-25, registering 26 goals and 57 points in 82 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 25th overall by the Capitals in 2019, McMichael has 67 goals and 154 points in 315 career games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Capitals drafted Gastrin with the 37th overall pic in 2025. With the HockeyAllsvenskan\u2019s MoDo last season in Sweden, he scored 10 goals with 24 points in 39 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues have traded forward Jordan Kyrou to the Washington Capitals in exchange for forward Connor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,189581,448,82,85926,113867],"class_list":["post-758092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jordan-kyrou-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8479385","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-19","tag-washington-capitals-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758092","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=758092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}