{"id":14966,"date":"2025-07-06T03:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/suter-signs-with-blues-key-reinforcement-with-2-year-contract\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T03:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:13:14","slug":"suter-signs-with-blues-key-reinforcement-with-2-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nhl\/suter-signs-with-blues-key-reinforcement-with-2-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Suter Signs with Blues: Key Reinforcement with 2-Year Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pius Suter Strengthens the St. Louis Blues<\/h2>\n\n\nCenter Pius Suter, one of the most prominent players available on the second day of free agency, joins the St. Louis Blues.\n\nSuter signed a two-year contract worth $4.125 million annually on Wednesday, following the most solid season of his career.\n\nAfter scoring 28 goals and 51 points in two seasons, Suter exploded in the 2024-25 season with 25 goals and 46 points in his final season with the Vancouver Canucks.\n\nWith several unrestricted free agents like Sam Bennett, Brock Boeser, Brad Marchand, and Brock Nelson deciding to stay with their teams, Suter was one of the most coveted players on the market when free agency opened on Tuesday. His deal with the Blues eliminates another top-nine forward, as the biggest name available, Nikolaj Ehlers, remains undecided about his future.\n\nThis is the latest move by a Blues team looking to take the next step after returning to the postseason with a first-round exit.\n\nThe Blues general manager, Doug Armstrong, said in June that veteran defenseman Torey Krug will not play next season as he continues to recover from offseason ankle surgery that caused him to miss the entire 2024-25 campaign.\n\nThe Blues, who had seven forwards score more than 18 goals, traded one of those forwards by moving Zack Bolduc to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for defenseman Logan Mailloux with the aim of reinforcing their defensive setup in the top six.\n\nArmstrong took advantage of Monday to sign center Nick Bjugstad to a two-year contract, hoping he can function as their third-line center.\n\nBut with the addition of Suter, the Blues could have one of the strongest center dynamics in the NHL from top to bottom, with Robert Thomas and captain Brayden Schenn occupying the top six spots, Suter on the third line and Bjugstad potentially on the fourth line.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pius Suter Strengthens the St. Louis Blues Center Pius Suter, one of the most prominent players available on the second day of free agency, joins the St. Louis Blues. Suter signed a two-year contract worth $4.125 million annually on Wednesday, following the most solid season of his career. After scoring 28 goals and 51 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[375,454,5243,986],"class_list":{"0":"post-14966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-free-agency","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-pius-suter","11":"tag-st-louis-blues"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}