{"id":877662,"date":"2026-10-10T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877662\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:18:23","slug":"connor-mcmichael-off-to-hot-start-with-st-louis-blues-leads-team-in-scoring-through-four-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877662\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McMichael off to hot start with St. Louis Blues, leads team in scoring through four games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connor McMichael<\/a> is\u00a0delivering early returns for the\u00a0St. Louis Blues<\/a> as he begins\u00a0his tenure with the club.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old forward leads the Blues in scoring with four points (2g, 2a) in four games, while skating on the team\u2019s second line and second power-play unit. With his goal on Thursday night against the San Jose Sharks<\/a>, McMichael now has goals in back-to-back games.<\/p>\n

Connor McMichael scores for Blues against Sharks<\/p>\n

McMichael combined with another Blues offseason addition, Mason McTavish<\/a>, to score his second goal of the season. The two have built early chemistry on their new team and are the only Blues to have recorded more than two points so far this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s been really good,\u201d McMichael said after Thursday\u2019s game<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s been easy for me, to be honest, coming to the Blues at the same time as him. It\u2019s been like a breath of fresh air, kind of having another guy in the same scenario as me. So we\u2019ve been bouncing a lot of things off each other and just looking to keep that rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMichael, who is wearing jersey number 77 with the Blues<\/a>, arrived in St. Louis when the Washington Capitals<\/a> sent him, a 2026 first-round draft pick, and prospect Milton Gastrin to the Blues in a trade for winger Jordan Kyrou<\/a> on June 23.<\/p>\n

Kyrou has recorded just one assist through three games for the Caps, struggling to find chemistry on a line with brothers Aliaksei and Ilya Protas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McMichael vs Kyrou<\/p>\n

Player
\nTeam
\nGP
\nG
\nA
\nPTS
\n+\/-<\/p>\n

Connor McMichael
\nSt. Louis Blues
\n4
\n2
\n2
\n4
\n-2<\/p>\n

Jordan Kyrou
\nWashington Capitals
\n3
\n0
\n1
\n1
\n-5<\/p>\n

McMichael was Washington\u2019s 2019 first-round pick and played parts of six seasons in the organization. Thursday\u2019s game marked his first in front of Blues fans as the club dropped their home opener 3-2 in overtime to the Sharks.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it was pretty special,\u201d McMichael said. \u201cI mean, when I first got traded here, that was the first thing I found out: that it was a huge sports city, and the fans for sure backed that up tonight with the player intros and then the energy early on there. So it was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMichael\u2019s first goal with the Blues also came in a losing effort, as he scored the second goal in a 4-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Connor McMichael scores power-play goal against Blackhawks<\/p>\n

McMichael, who was a restricted free agent this past summer, signed a six-year, $40.5 million contract extension with the Blues in mid-July<\/a>, avoiding salary arbitration.<\/p>\n

The deal will see McMichael earn $6.75 million against the NHL salary cap through the 2031-32 season. The final four years of the contract include a three-team no-trade list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor McMichael is\u00a0delivering early returns for the\u00a0St. Louis Blues as he begins\u00a0his tenure with the club. The 25-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-877662","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\/877662","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=877662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}