{"id":410679,"date":"2026-01-16T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:25:12","slug":"blues-leading-scorer-robert-thomas-to-ir-out-at-least-2-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410679\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues leading scorer Robert Thomas to IR, out at least 2 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 15, 2026, 02:36 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>ST. LOUIS &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-blues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a> put leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4233637\/robert-thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Thomas<\/a> on injured reserve Thursday and said the veteran center will be re-evaluated in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>President of hockey operations and general manager Doug Armstrong said Thomas is out because of a lower-body injury. Coach Jim Montgomery had previously ruled Thomas out of playing Friday night at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-lightning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, who have won 11 games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, 26, ranks first on the team with 22 assists and 33 points and is tied for the most goals with 11. Thomas missed the Blues&#8217; most recent game Tuesday night at Carolina and did not practice Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis sits in 13th place in the NHL&#8217;s 16-team Western Conference with an 18-21-8 record through 47 games and is five points out of the second and final wild-card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 15, 2026, 02:36 PM ET ST. LOUIS &#8212; The Blues put leading scorer Robert Thomas on injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-410679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410679","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=410679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}