{"id":807769,"date":"2026-07-17T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807769\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:57:17","slug":"mcmichael-signs-6-year-40-5-million-contract-with-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807769\/","title":{"rendered":"McMichael signs 6-year, $40.5 million contract with Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connor McMichael<\/a> signed a six-year, $40.5 million contract with the St. Louis Blues on Thursday, avoiding an arbitration hearing.<\/p>\n

The contract has an average annual value of $6.75 million.<\/p>\n

McMichael had been acquired in a trade with the Washington Capitals, along with forward prospect Milton Gastrin<\/a> and the No. 16 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft, for forward Jordan Kyrou<\/a>\u00a0on June 23.<\/p>\n

A restricted free agent, McMichael had filed for salary arbitration July 5. Hearings are scheduled to be held July 20-Aug. 1.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old forward had 46 points (14 goals, 32 assists) in 78 games last season. He had an NHL career-best 57 points (26 goals, 31 assists) in 82 games in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

“I’m super-excited,” McMichael said after the trade. “I think one of the first things I did when I found out is checked the Blues roster and got familiar with the guys. From what I saw, there’s going to be a lot of years where we can be competitive. It’s a team that’s looking to build and get better and better each year. There’s quite a few guys the same age as me, so that’s real exciting. I’m already familiar with a few guys as well. I’m really happy to be a Blue.<\/p>\n

“Last year was a bit of a down year for me. … The assists were still there, but the goal scoring, not so much. That’s definitely something I pride myself in. I like to get into the dirty areas per se, and find the soft spots and find the back of the net. I think I’m a well-rounded player that’s going to be able to score and set guys up.”<\/p>\n

Selected by the Capitals in the first round (No. 25) of the 2019 NHL Draft, McMichael has 154 points (67 goals, 87 assists) in 315 regular-season\u00a0games and eight points (five goals, three assists) in 18 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n

“McMichael’s got speed,” Blues president of hockey operations Doug Armstrong said after the trade. “He’s got the ability to play multiple positions up front. A little bit younger, we’ve got control over him for a couple years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor McMichael signed a six-year, $40.5 million contract with the St. Louis Blues on Thursday, avoiding an arbitration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-807769","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\/807769","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=807769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}