Thomas has 460 points (132 goals, 328 assists) in 530 games during eight NHL seasons with St. Louis, and 26 points (six goals, 20 assists) in 52 Stanley Cup Playoff games. That includes six points (one goal, five assists) in 21 games as a rookie to help the Blues win the Stanley Cup in 2019.<\/p>\n
Forwards Jake Neighbours<\/a> and Dylan Holloway<\/a>\u00a0and defensemen Colton Parayko<\/a> and Philip Broberg<\/a>\u00a0will rotate as alternate captains.<\/p>\n Thomas’ first game as captain could come when the Blues play their season opener at the Dallas Stars on Oct. 2 (9 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT).<\/p>\n Nine NHL teams are without a captain: the Anaheim Ducks, Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas has 460 points (132 goals, 328 assists) in 530 games during eight NHL seasons with St. Louis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-834701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834701","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=834701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}