{"id":483397,"date":"2026-03-03T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/483397\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:31:10","slug":"blues-robert-thomas-asking-price-astronomical-sabres-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/483397\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues’ Robert Thomas asking price ‘astronomical’, Sabres push"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NHL trade deadline<\/a> is quickly approaching, and multiple teams are looking to improve their roster for a playoff push. One of the more sought-after players could be Robert Thomas of the St. Louis Blues<\/a>. Multiple teams are rumored to be targeting Thomas<\/a> before Friday’s trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Now, it seems the cost for acquiring<\/a> Thomas is being set, and it is high, according to NHL insider Pierre LeBrun, as he spoke on TSN’s Early Trading.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say that in talking to people who have an understanding of what the Blues are asking, I was told that as of last night, the price was still astronomical for Thomas. By the way, as it should be, I mean, 26-year-old No. 1 centres on a decent contract don\u2019t come around very often,\u201d LeBrun said.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Thomas is in the third year of a eight year deal he signed in 2022 and started in the 2023-24 campaign.\u00a0 He currently has an AAV of 8.125 million and a no-trade clause. Still, if a deal can be struck, it would be a great contract and player coming into a franchise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think St. Louis is well within its rights to be asking for the moon for Thomas. I mean, look at how much Quinn Hughes, a No. 1 defenceman, fetched earlier this year from Minnesota getting him from Vancouver. These prices should be high for these types of players,\u201d LeBrun added.<\/p>\n

The Vancouver Canucks got a haul for Quinn Hughes, bringing in Zeev Buium, Marco Rossi, Liam Ohgren, and a first-round pick. The question becomes, will a team be willing to pay that much for Thomas? Chris Johnston of The Athletic is reporting there may be a team willing to<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuffalo is believed to be dangling the equivalent of multiple 1st-rounders in Robert Thomas talks,\u201d Johnston reported while also confirming a report from TSN’s Darren Dreger that Buffalo and St. Louis have talks that are heating up for Thomas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not convinced that it\u2019s going to lower that much by Friday\u2019s deadline, because again, the Blues don\u2019t have to move him. As one team executive told me: Is this about the Blues really getting a full sense of the market for him and then circling back in the off-season on a lot of these discussions? It could be, but I will also say this: I also talked to another team executive who was actually convinced that Thomas will move by Friday\u2019s deadline. So we shall see,\u201d LeBrun concluded his thoughts on Thomas with.<\/p>\n

The Sabres are expected to be buyers at the trade deadline,<\/a> and it seems if they want Thomas, they are going to have to pay up, as there is not going to be a last-second discount. Regardless of it is the Sabres or not, it seems likely that by the end of the day Friday, Thomas is going to have a new city to call home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL trade deadline is quickly approaching, and multiple teams are looking to improve their roster for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,229,5,4,107,4303,548,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-483397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-rumors","13":"tag-nhl-stories","14":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-st-louis-blues","17":"tag-stlouis","18":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116167146576902177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483397","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=483397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}