Note: This is the sixth of 10 installments of a pre-training camp series asking the most important questions facing the Blues this season.
For more than four seasons, the Blues chased an answer on Colton Parayko’s left.
Post-Dispatch beat reporter Matthew DeFranks joined columnist Jeff Gordon to discuss the flurry of Blues activity in the trade market, free agency and the NHL Draft.
Justin Carbonneau will play in his first prospect tournament for the Blues, as the 2025 first-round pick is one of five Blues first-round picks slate to play in next week's Tom Kurvers Prospect Showcase in St. Paul, Minn.
The Blues will play the Wild prospects on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. and the Blackhawks prospects on Sept. 13 at 6 p.m. The games will be streamed on the Blues website and on the Blues app.
After years of being included in trade rumors, Kyrou now knows he’s the one who decides the fate of his career.
As it turns out, Snuggerud was used in a way that no Blues rookie forward had been used in 16 years.
The Blues fortified their center depth in free agency by signing both Pius Suter and Nick Bjugstad.
Note: This is the fifth of 10 installments of a pre-training camp series asking the most important questions facing the Blues this season.
Jordan Kyrou didn’t go anywhere, but this summer was one of change for him.
Note: This is the fourth of 10 installments of a pre-training camp series asking the most important questions facing the Blues this season.
When Jimmy Snuggerud arrived with the Blues in March, it was unknown how the team would utilize him.
Post-Dispatch beat reporter Matthew DeFranks joined columnist Jeff Gordon to discuss the flurry of Blues activity in the trade market, free agency and the NHL Draft.
If there ever was an ironman associated with 51ºÚÁÏ sports, it’s Tom Calhoun.
Not on the field, court or rink. Not as a coach or team executive. Not even on the local airwaves, print or a new media platform. In fact, it’s highly likely you wouldn’t recognize him if he stood next to you in the checkout line at the grocery store. But if you’re a regular attendee of Blues or Gateway Grizzlies games, or a 51ºÚÁÏ AM radio listener from days gone by, you’d probably immediately recognize the voice.
Tom Calhoun will enter the 2005-26 NHL season having been the pubic address announcer for 1,773 consecutive Blues home games.
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Gateway Grizzlies general manager Kurt Ringkamp, right, unveils a sign on Friday, May 9, 2025, on the outfield wall at the Grizzlies’ ballpark honoring longtime public address announcer Tom Calhoun, center, who is retiring at season’s end. At left is Calhoun’s wife, Barb.
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Tom Calhoun is behind the microphone as the Blues' public address announcer in 1988, his first full season on the job he still holds.
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Tom Calhoun on the public address system at a Gateway Grizzlies game alongside a youngster. The team sometimes has a child in the booth for an inning.
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Tom Calhoun introduces players on Dec. 31, 2016, when alumni from the Blues and Blackhawks played at Busch Stadium as part of Winter Classic festivities.
51ºÚÁÏ Blues photo51ºÚÁÏ columnist Lynn Worthy joined Jeff Gordon to discuss Andre Pallante's recent struggles on the mound and Nolan Gorman's progress at the plate.
Note: This is the third of 10 installments of a pre-training camp series asking the most important questions facing the Blues this season.
If you looked at the Blues’ group of top-six forwards entering training camp, it would look pretty close to what it was late in the season after Jimmy Snuggerud signed and before Dylan Holloway got hurt.
Blues forward Alexey Toropchenko celebrates his goal against the Jets during the second period Game 6 of a first-round Stanley Cup playoffs series on Friday, May 2, 2025, at Enterprise Center.
Laurie Skrivan, Post-DispatchThe Blues will be featured 14 times on national television during the upcoming 2025-26 regular season, a three-game increase from last season's 11 nationally televised games.
The team will be on TNT six times, ESPN+/Hulu five times and ESPN three times. The 14 games place the Blues among the 17 NHL teams with at least that many nationally televised games.
This season will be the third straight year of a Binnington-Hofer tandem, with two more potentially on the horizon as both goalies are under contract through 2026-27.
Mailloux, the No. 31 pick in the 2021 draft, arrives with the Blues after spending most of the last two seasons with Montreal's AHL affiliate in Laval.
Blues coach Jim Montgomery is excited about his club, notably star Robert Thomas and new defenseman Logan Mailloux, who Montgomery calls "a manchild."
The 51ºÚÁÏ Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks, 3-2 at Enterprise Center on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025.
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