{"id":438548,"date":"2026-01-31T20:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:19:35","slug":"springfield-thunderbirds-blues-assign-f-matt-luff-to-t-birds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/438548\/","title":{"rendered":"Springfield Thunderbirds | Blues Assign F Matt Luff to T-Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Written By: Ryan Smith<\/p>\n<p>ST. LOUIS, MO\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0St. Louis\u00a0Blues\u00a0President of Hockey Operations and General Manager\u00a0Doug Armstrong\u00a0announced today that the Blues have assigned forward Matt Luff to their AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n<p>Luff, 28, has appeared in 33 games for the Thunderbirds this season, leading the team with 13 goals and 20 assists. The Oakville, Ontario native has also recorded a goal in five appearances with the Blues. \u00a0Overall, Luff has posted 28 points (16 goals, 12 assists) and 20 penalty minutes in 111 career NHL regular\u2011season games, along with 245 points (100 goals, 145 assists) and 199 penalty minutes in 312 career AHL regular\u2011season games. \u00a0He was signed by the Blues as a free agent on July 1, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The T-Birds complete a five-game homestand on Saturday night as they host the Hartford Wolf Pack for a 6:05 p.m. puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>Single-game tickets and ticket memberships for all remaining games in the Thunderbirds&#8217; 2025-26 season are available now &#8211; fans can order now by visiting <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldthunderbirds.com\/\">www.SpringfieldThunderbirds.com<\/a> or by calling (413) 739-GOAL (4625).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 31, 2026 Written By: Ryan Smith ST. LOUIS, MO\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0St. Louis\u00a0Blues\u00a0President of Hockey Operations and General Manager\u00a0Doug Armstrong\u00a0announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[6828,71,5,21510,7807,4,534,84,5285,5284,1949],"class_list":["post-438548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-assign","tag-blues","tag-hockey","tag-luff","tag-matt","tag-nhl","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues","tag-t-birds"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115991567827108070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438548","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=438548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}