{"id":497504,"date":"2026-03-01T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497504\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:52:08","slug":"mammoth-have-shown-interest-in-robert-thomas-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497504\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth Have Shown Interest In Robert Thomas \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mammoth are among the teams that have shown interest in\u00a0Robert Thomas<\/a>, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman said on the network\u2019s \u201cSaturday Headlines\u201d segment<\/a>. No matter what they put forth, they\u2019d remain one of the longer shots to land the two-time 80-point scorer if he\u2019s moved at all. Intra-division trades involving players of his caliber are exceedingly rare.<\/p>\n

Utah is looking into long-term moves, not the rental market, in order to help secure the franchise\u2019s first trip to the postseason since being born from the ashes of the Coyotes, general manager Bill Armstrong told NHL.com\u2019s Mike Zeisberger<\/a> this week. Thomas would be among the most impactful moves they can make. They\u2019ve already been linked<\/a> to puck-moving rearguard\u00a0Dougie Hamilton<\/a>\u00a0in their pursuit of added offense, but adding a player of Thomas\u2019 age and cost control is a much higher-caliber addition.<\/p>\n

Thomas has 11 goals and 33 points in 42 games this season for St. Louis. The 26-year-old\u2019s underlying offensive numbers have tanked, averaging 1.43 shots on goal and 2.88 shot attempts per game compared to 2.07 and 4.40 last season, respectively. That should be easily attributable to Thomas fighting through a number of injuries this season while being symptomatic of a larger offensive regression in St. Louis, where the Blues are near the bottom of the league in virtually every category.<\/p>\n

The fact stands that over the past five years, Thomas has established himself as one of the league\u2019s top playmaking centers. He\u2019s averaged 60 assists and 83 points per 82 games over that span, with his 1.01 points per game ranking 23rd in the league since 2021-22 (min. 300 games played). Among players on the Mammoth\u2019s roster, only\u00a0Clayton Keller<\/a>\u00a0stands above him, and only narrowly.<\/p>\n

Thomas also has five years left on his contract at a stomachable $8.125MM cap hit. He has a full no-trade clause and controls his destiny. The Blues have made it clear they\u2019re not overly willing to dump him as part of their retooling, but will listen to offers<\/a>. They\u2019re reportedly looking for a template similar to what the Canucks acquired for franchise defender\u00a0Quinn Hughes<\/a>\u00a0earlier this season \u2013 a package roughly equivalent to four first-round picks.<\/p>\n

While the Blues surely won\u2019t be excited about the prospect of moving Thomas in the division, few teams are as well-equipped to put forth a compelling offer as the Mammoth. They still have all of their firsts in the next few drafts and have a rich staple of first-round drafted prospects over the past few years to part with. 2023 selections\u00a0Danil But<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dmitriy Simashev<\/a>\u00a0have made their debuts this season, while they\u2019d have to consider making 2024 #6 pick Tij Iginla<\/a>\u00a0and 2025 #4 pick\u00a0Caleb Desnoyers<\/a>\u00a0available as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mammoth are among the teams that have shown interest in\u00a0Robert Thomas, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman said on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,27493,99,1610,4829],"class_list":["post-497504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-robert-thomas","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-utah-mammoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497504","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=497504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}