{"id":334295,"date":"2025-12-02T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/334295\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:53:15","slug":"st-louis-blues-acquire-forward-akil-thomas-from-los-angeles-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/334295\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues acquire forward Akil Thomas from Los Angeles Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The St. Louis Blue have acquired forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akil-thomas\/8480851\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/akil-thomas\/8480851\" target=\"_blank\">Akil Thomas<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> in exchange for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-alexandrov\/8481543\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/nikita-alexandrov\/8481543\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Alexandrov<\/a>, it was announced Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old Thomas has two goals and one assist so far this season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Blues have acquired forward Akil Thomas from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Nikita Alexandrov. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#stlblues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1995874345747464605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He\u2019s played 32 NHL games since being selected in the second round (No. 51 overall) by the Kings in the 2018 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alexandrov, 25, has not played in the NHL since the 2023-24 campaign. He has three goals and six assists for nine points in 51 career regular season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The native of Burgwedel, Germany has three goals and 11 assists for 14 points in 18 AHL games so far this year for the Springfield Thunderbirds in the AHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kings enter play Tuesday 12-6-7 while the Blues sit 9-11-7.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blue have acquired forward Akil Thomas from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45619,4759,5,32840,4,33561],"class_list":{"0":"post-334295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-akil-thomas-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8480851","9":"tag-apple-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-los-angeles-kings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-26","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-st-louis-blues-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-19"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115651255031040205","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334295","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=334295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}