{"id":459717,"date":"2026-09-10T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459717\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:08:10","slug":"blues-mason-mctavish-carrying-chip-after-trade-from-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459717\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues’ Mason McTavish carrying chip after trade from Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mason McTavish<\/a> could be playing with some extra fire heading into the 2026-27 season. <\/p>\n

The St. Louis Blues<\/a> forward told reporters Thursday that he’s “not happy” with the way things went down in Anaheim following an off-season trade from the Ducks. <\/p>\n

“Yeah, I think I have a chip on my shoulder, for sure,” McTavish said to Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic<\/a>. “I’m not happy with the way things went in Anaheim. I enjoyed my time there; it was awesome, guys were great, but at the same time, they traded me. That’s something I’m passionate about and want to get better. I’m looking forward to doing that here.”<\/p>\n

McTavish, 23, was acquired by the Blues on June 26 at the NHL Draft, with picks Nos. 15 and 29 heading back the other way. <\/p>\n

The move came after McTavish, who had been an alternate captain for Anaheim since the 2023-24 season, put pen to paper on a six-year, $42-million ($7 million in average annual value) deal the summer prior.<\/p>\n

His first year under that new contract didn’t go according to plan for the third-overall pick from 2021, as he finished with 17 goals and 24 assists with a minus-15 in 75 games \u2014 well off his 52-point output in the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n

Despite his drop in production, the Ducks finished with a 43-33-6 record and qualified for the playoffs for the first time since the 2018-19 campaign. They eventually lost in the second round to the Stanley Cup Final-bound Vegas Golden Knights. <\/p>\n

McTavish also fell out of favour with new coach Joel Quenneville, who slashed his ice time from 16:53 to 15:19 per game and scratched him during that playoff appearance, playing in only 10 of the team’s 12 post-season games. When he did skate, he logged only 12:25 of average ice time.<\/p>\n

Now, he’ll hope to rebound with a Blues team that just missed the playoffs last year with a 37-33-12 record.<\/p>\n

“It’s been awesome so far,” McTavish told Rutherford about his new side. “The guys have been super welcoming and just meeting everybody is a lot, so it was nice to come in a little earlier and put names to faces.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason McTavish could be playing with some extra fire heading into the 2026-27 season. The St. Louis Blues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-459717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}