{"id":277277,"date":"2025-11-07T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:10:09","slug":"blues-to-make-jordan-kyrou-a-healthy-scratch-against-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277277\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues to make Jordan Kyrou a healthy scratch against Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Montgomery is sending a message to Jordan Kyrou \u2014 and the rest of the struggling St. Louis Blues.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the Blues\u2019 6-1 loss to the Washington Capitals on Wednesday, Kyrou will be a healthy scratch against the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night, the Blues coach confirmed to The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany players could have been scratched after last night\u2019s game, and ultimately I decided on this group tonight,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues will also be inserting Alexandre Texier, Mathieu Joseph and Matthew Kessel into the lineup, and Oskar Sundqvist and Logan Mailloux are also coming out.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Kyrou has been scratched since April 17, 2021, before he became a regular in the Blues\u2019 lineup and one of the team\u2019s highest-paid players. He\u2019s led St. Louis in goals the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In 14 games this season, Kyrou has four goals and eight points and a minus-8 rating.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes on the heels of Montgomery having a lengthy on-ice conversation with Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich at practice on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe conversation was that we have a couple of key players out,\u201d Montgomery said at the time. \u201cRight now, our team needs everybody to elevate to replace the guys that are out. But (Kyrou and Buchnevich), in particular, I asked them to raise their level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Montgomery having a lengthy conversation right now with Kyrou and Buchnevich. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#stlblues<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RZIsMXs7sW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RZIsMXs7sW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lou Korac (@lkorac10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lkorac10\/status\/1984310167798702589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 31, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next day, Montgomery was asked what Kyrou needs to do to become the Blues\u2019 best player night in and night out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think he\u2019s shooting the puck great this year,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cHe\u2019s beat goalies clean without screens three or four times. But for Jordan, he\u2019s electric offensively and his feet create anxiety for the other team. When he\u2019s playing like that, and he\u2019s stripping pucks from behind, that\u2019s when he\u2019s really noticeable, and you see a multitude of scoring chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the three games since that conversation, Kyrou has no points and has a minus-1 rating with seven shots on goal. In that span, he\u2019s averaging 15:10 of ice time, which is eighth among forwards.<\/p>\n<p>After an eight-game point streak from Oct. 13 to 28 (four goals, four assists), Kyrou has failed to record a point in his past four games.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrou, 27, is in the third year of an eight-year, $65 million contract that was signed in 2022. He has a full no-trade clause, which kicked in on July 1.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Montgomery is sending a message to Jordan Kyrou \u2014 and the rest of the struggling St. Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99,1610],"class_list":["post-277277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}