{"id":784145,"date":"2026-07-06T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784145\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:53:08","slug":"blues-loan-gastrin-to-brynas-if-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784145\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues loan Gastrin to Brynas IF in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Blues General Manager Alexander Steen\u00a0announced today that the team has loaned forward\u00a0Milton Gastrin\u00a0to Bryn\u00e4s IF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gastrin will be eligible to return to the Blues or their AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds, once Bryn\u00e4s&#8217; season has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Gastrin, 19, was acquired by the Blues, along with forward\u00a0Connor McMichael\u00a0and the 16th overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, from the Washington Capitals in exchange for Jordan Kyrou\u00a0on June 23. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the\u00a0\u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik, Sweden, native appeared in 39 regular-season games for MoDo in the SHL, recording 24 points (10 goals, 14 assists). \u00a0He also tallied four points (one goal, three assists) in 13 postseason games.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-1, 194-pound forward was drafted by the Capitals in the second round, 37th overall, of the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues General Manager Alexander Steen\u00a0announced today that the team has loaned forward\u00a0Milton Gastrin\u00a0to Bryn\u00e4s IF of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-784145","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\/784145","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=784145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}