{"id":881015,"date":"2026-09-02T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881015\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:18:10","slug":"blues-name-robert-thomas-25th-captain-in-franchise-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881015\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues name Robert Thomas 25th captain in franchise history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aurora, Ont., native is entering his ninth season with the club, having played 530 games with 132 goals and 328 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was also part of the 2019 Blues squad that won the Stanley Cup, when he appeared in 21 post-season games as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p>Last season amid trade buzz, Thomas registered 25 goals and 39 assists in 64 games. He set career highs in goals (26) and points (86) during the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas previously served as an assistant captain. Brayden Schenn, who had been captain since 2023-24, was traded to the New York Islanders midway through last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Aurora, Ont., native is entering his ninth season with the club, having played 530 games with 132&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-881015","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\/881015","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=881015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}