{"id":439994,"date":"2026-02-01T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439994\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:24:16","slug":"blues-activate-pius-suter-assign-matt-luff-to-ahl-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/439994\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues Activate Pius Suter, Assign Matt Luff To AHL \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the Blues will welcome back a veteran center to the lineup tonight against Columbus.\u00a0 The team <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\/news\/suter-activated-from-injured-reserve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they have activated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/suterpi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-31_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pius Suter<\/a> off injured reserve.\u00a0 In a corresponding move, winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/luffma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-31_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Luff<\/a> has been assigned to AHL Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>Suter is in his first season in St. Louis after signing a two-year, $8.25MM contract last summer on the heels on a breakout year in Vancouver.\u00a0 Last season, he had career highs in goals (25) and points (46) while holding down a top-six role for most of the year.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t been called on to play as high in the lineup as often this season and his offensive numbers have suffered as a result.\u00a0 Through 37 games, Suter has seven goals and seven assists while averaging a little over 16 minutes per night.\u00a0 He had been sidelined for a little more than a month due to a right ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>As for Luff, his time on the roster was short-lived as he was recalled on an emergency basis just yesterday.\u00a0 He has been shuffled back and forth a few times this season and has gotten into five games with St. Louis where he has one goal and eight hits in a little over nine minutes per night of playing time.\u00a0 With the Thunderbirds, he has been quite productive, notching 13 goals and 20 assists in 33 games, meaning he\u2019ll likely get another chance with the Blues before too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears that the Blues will welcome back a veteran center to the lineup tonight against Columbus.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[401,5,19354,1807,84,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-439994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-matt-luff","11":"tag-pius-suter","12":"tag-st-louis-blues","13":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115996070099984332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439994","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=439994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}