{"id":188015,"date":"2025-09-10T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/188015\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T22:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:21:11","slug":"blues-sign-justin-carbonneau-nikita-susuev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/188015\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Sign Justin Carbonneau, Nikita Susuev"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Louis Blues have signed<\/a> 2025 first-round pick Justin Carbonneau<\/a> to his entry-level contract. The team also announced they\u2019ve signed 2023 seventh-round pick Nikita Susuev<\/a> to his entry-level deal. Carbonneau was one of 33 forwards named to the Blues\u2019 2025 training camp roster<\/a> on Wednesday. Reports suggest that he could even have a chance at making the NHL roster straight out of camp, per Marco D\u2019Amico of RG Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Word that Carbonneau could be headed for pro games sooner rather than later comes as no surprise. He was the main standout at the team\u2019s 2025 rookie camp, held immediately following the NHL Draft. Fans were quickly tuned into the high-energy, hefty, and aggressively-physical style that Carbonneau brings to the ice. He was perhaps the best play-driver in the QMJHL last season, and finished the year with 46 goals \u2013 tied for the league-lead \u2013 and 89 points \u2013 second in the league \u2013 in 62 games played. Carbonneau was also the only player in the league to record more than 60 points and penalty minutes (61).<\/p>\n

Draft pundits praised Carbonneau\u2019s heft and strength throughout the season. He already stands at 6-foot-2, 205-pounds \u2013 plenty of size to cushion an early move to the NHL. If he doesn\u2019t make the Blues, or if the team opts to return him after nine games, he will return to the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada for a fourth season. He has already amassed 168 points in 162 games with the team.<\/p>\n

On the other side, Susuev \u2013 often spelled Susuyev \u2013 could finally make a push away from Russian hockey. He has bounced around the country\u2019s major, minor, and junior leagues over the last three seasons. He\u2019s also bounced around organizations, and ended up suiting up for five different clubs \u2013 helped along by three different loan-outs \u2013 last season alone. His stat line became a slog as a result \u2013 officially sat at 12 points in 21 MHL (junior) games, five points in 14 VHL (minor-pro) games, and one point in seven KHL (major-pro) games.<\/p>\n

Susuev did spend the majority of the 2023-24 campaign, his age-19 season, on the KHL\u2019s Spartak Moskva. He only racked up six points in 40 games from a depth forward role, but nonetheless gained invaluable experience on a team that finished fourth in their conference. He\u2019s a high-skill winger, with the flash to beat defenders and the instinct to crash the net. His hockey IQ was praised by Russian scouts ahead of the draft, and he could quickly become an interesting player to follow if and when he joins the AHL ranks. For now, Susuev has officially missed the start of Spartak\u2019s season due to injury, and it is unclear what his next step will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues have signed 2025 first-round pick Justin Carbonneau to his entry-level contract. The team also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[401,5,707,2359,30,4,465,466,32288,5378,84,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-188015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-justin-carbonneau","11":"tag-khl","12":"tag-newsstand","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-draft","15":"tag-nhl-entry-draft","16":"tag-nikita-susuev","17":"tag-qmjhl","18":"tag-st-louis-blues","19":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115182337038996092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}