{"id":807328,"date":"2026-07-17T06:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:52:13","slug":"st-louis-blues-sign-connor-mcmichael-to-six-year-40-5-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807328\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues sign Connor McMichael to six-year, $40.5 million contract"},"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 signed restricted free agent 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> to a six-year, $40.5 million contract that carries an annual cap hit of $6.75 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McMichael, 25, was acquired from 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>, along with forward Milton Gastrin and a draft pick, in a June 23 trade for 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>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He recorded 14 goals and 46 points in 78 games with the Capitals 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.<\/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 Ajax, Ont., native represented Canada twice at the World Juniors, winning gold in 2020 and silver in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues have signed restricted free agent forward Connor McMichael to a six-year, $40.5 million contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,283568,448,82,85926],"class_list":["post-807328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connor-mcmichael-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481580","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807328","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=807328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}