{"id":402220,"date":"2026-01-11T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/402220\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T19:48:15","slug":"st-louis-blues-sign-philip-broberg-to-six-year-48-million-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/402220\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues sign Philip Broberg to six-year, $48 million extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/st-louis-blues\/19\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> signed defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/philip-broberg\/8481598\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/philip-broberg\/8481598\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Broberg<\/a> to a six-year, US$48 million contract extension, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broberg, recently named to Sweden\u2019s team for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, is in his second season with the Blues after signing with the team as a restricted free agent in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has two goals and 12 assists in 45 games this season, after scoring eight goals with 21 assists in 68 regular-season games last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to have him here for this year, plus six more,\u201d general manager Doug Armstrong said. \u201cThat takes him right through the meat of his prime years. &#8230; He\u2019s a player, I think, on the back end that we can build around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broberg, 24, has played in 194 career regular-season games, totalling 56 points (12 goals, 44 assists), 32 penalty minutes and a plus-16 rating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has also appeared in 27 career post-season games, including 10 in 2023-24 when he helped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> reach the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was drafted eighth overall by the Oilers in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The St. Louis Blues signed defenceman Philip Broberg to a six-year, US$48 million contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,50845,33561],"class_list":{"0":"post-402220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-philip-broberg-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8481598","11":"tag-st-louis-blues-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-19"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115878199610561511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402220","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=402220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}