{"id":81429,"date":"2025-08-19T14:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81429\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:49:07","slug":"blues-sign-milan-lucic-to-professional-tryout-after-year-away-from-nhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81429\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues sign Milan Lucic to professional tryout after year away from NHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in\">The St. Louis Blues have signed forward Milan Lucic to a professional tryout, the club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in\">Lucic last played in the NHL during the 2023-24 season with the Boston Bruins, the team with which he spent the first eight seasons of his 17-year career. He had two assists in four games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in\">The 37-year-old took an indefinite leave of absence from the team in Nov. 2023 and later entered the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in\">Lucic has since completed the program and been reinstated by the NHL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in\">The Vancouver native has 233 goals and 586 points in 1,177 regular-season games with the Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in\">The six-foot-three, 236-pound Lucic also has 29 goals and 77 points in 136 playoff contests, having also won a Stanley Cup with Boston in 2011. The Bruins drafted him in the second round (50th overall) in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues have signed forward Milan Lucic to a professional tryout, the club announced Tuesday. Lucic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-81429","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\/81429","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=81429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}