{"id":476232,"date":"2026-02-28T01:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476232\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:57:18","slug":"blues-latest-asking-price-for-robert-thomas-revealed-and-it-is-massive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/476232\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues’ Latest Asking Price for Robert Thomas Revealed: And It Is Massive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s well known now around the NHL: The reason that the sure-fire sellers, the St. Louis Blues<\/a>, haven’t been able to pull the trigger yet on a deal, is due to the high prices they’ve set on their trade candidates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And when it comes to center Robert Thomas, the ask is astronomical.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Blues insider\u00a0Jeremy Rutherford in The Athletic<\/a>, here’s what it’ll cost a team to pry the point-per-game man away from St. Louis:<\/p>\n

Armstrong has made it clear what the asking price is for Thomas: three first-half-of-the-first-round assets. For example, that could mean an established young player, a drafted prospect and a draft pick who were all selected or could be taken in the first 15 or so picks.<\/p>\n

A huge ask, indeed. This even surpasses the previous thought of what GM Doug Armstrong was looking for in ureturn for Thomas, which, as Elliotte Friedman noted, was a young talented center just like Thomas, only a bit younger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But wait, even if a team is able to meet that massive three-pronged price tag, there’d still be one more big hurdle to overcome: Thomas has a full no-move clause on his eight-year, $65 million deal. He’d have to agree to waive it in order for any trade to go through.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But as Rutherford points out, if Thomas is able to get\u00a0a firm picture of the direction the Blues are taking \u2014 i.e. is this a quick, aggressive retool, or a multi-year rebuild \u2014 he might be willing to waive (particularly if it’s the latter).\u00a0<\/p>\n

“But between that and another team coming up with the assets Armstrong is asking for, it seems unlikely to be pulled off before the deadline,” writes Rutherford.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With all of that to overcome, it sounds more and more like any Robert Thomas trade will have to come in the summer.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old is having a bit of a down year (much like the team itself), with 11 goals and 33 points in 42 games. But the previous four seasons saw him record well above a point-per-game pace overall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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