{"id":552098,"date":"2026-03-29T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552098\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:02:12","slug":"thomas-kuzmenko-castagna-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552098\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas, Kuzmenko, Castagna \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\">\n  By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/author\/brianlarose\" title=\"Posts by Brian La Rose\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian La Rose<\/a> |<br \/>\n  at March 28, 2026 6:01 pm  <\/p>\n<p>As the Blues continue to remain within striking distance of a Wild Card spot in the West, they\u2019ll welcome back a key piece to the lineup.\u00a0 Lou Korac of The Hockey News relays (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lkorac10\/status\/2037910537674105334\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomaro01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robert Thomas<\/a> will return after missing Thursday\u2019s game due to an upper-body injury sustained earlier this week against Washington.\u00a0 The 26-year-old was featured in trade speculation leading up to the deadline earlier this month but ultimately stayed in St. Louis.\u00a0 Thomas leads the Blues in scoring despite missing 18 games due to injury, collecting 16 goals and 30 assists in 53 appearances so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>More from out West:<\/p>\n<p>Kings winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kuzmean01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andrei Kuzmenko<\/a> has resumed skating as he works his way back from a meniscus injury, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lakingsinsider.com\/2026\/03\/28\/3-28-preview-a-season-long-season-defining-homestand-winning-in-la-regulation-wins-kuzmenko-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">notes Zach Dooley of LA Kings Insider<\/a>. He has missed the last month due to the injury and was initially ruled as being out for the remainder of the regular season.\u00a0 However, while it appears that he\u2019s back on the ice a little earlier than anticipated, the team is still proceeding as if he won\u2019t return before the playoffs, should the team qualify.\u00a0 Kuzmenko, in his first full season with Los Angeles, has 13 goals and 12 assists in 52 games this season.<br \/>\nWith Cornell being eliminated from the NCAA tournament yesterday, the Flames have sent two front office staff to speak to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/535656\/jonathan-castagna\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jonathan Castagna<\/a> to try to get him to sign, reports Sportsnet\u2019s Eric Francis (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricFrancis\/status\/2037960627373953311\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). The 20-year-old was acquired as part of the return for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/weegama01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-28_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MacKenzie Weegar<\/a> earlier this month and is coming off a strong season that saw him record 15 goals and 19 assists in 34 games.\u00a0 Sportsnet 960\u2019s Pat Steinberg adds (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fan960Steinberg\/status\/2037967391775215642\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that Calgary has two contract slots remaining and wants Castagna to fill one of those, suggesting that if he agrees to sign, his deal will begin this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at March 28, 2026 6:01 pm As the Blues continue to remain within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[245536,4047,245537,393,398,385,27493,99,1610],"class_list":{"0":"post-552098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-andrei-kuzmenko","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-jonathan-castagna","11":"tag-los-angeles-kings","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-robert-thomas","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-st-louis-blues"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552098","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=552098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552098\/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=552098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}