{"id":519873,"date":"2026-03-24T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/519873\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:04:29","slug":"st-louis-blues-sign-hobey-baker-finalist-ncaa-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/519873\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Sign Hobey Baker Finalist NCAA Free Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh43xehf1O-mCg5GA_k4aPPDpgmyPHwSz0THo0mll3A1bO9YxcesUMTY9OjQBtA48HNr7Pb6h1L2ZZRBqMf8MRqPlaRLJqEJvNby_QxLTmsvU-OBCjKidaCIS8NeQwAERYibh0tcj8b8RDJMaZYlmw7l4JnN3d9wFBQAPyVBovlUZVYwnfGzGTuKMOdZcMe\/s684\/Screenshot%202026-03-23%20at%2010.12.47%E2%80%AFAM.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"380\" data-original-width=\"684\" height=\"223\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot 2026-03-23 at 10.12.47\u202fAM.png\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><br \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhltraderumors.me\/search\/label\/St.%20Louis%20Blues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> have made a move for their future, signing one of the top NCAA college hockey free agents, landing\u00a0forward\u00a0Felix Trudeau on a two-year entry-level contract.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#stlblues<\/a>\u202f\u202f\u202f have signed collegiate free agent forward Felix Trudeau to a two-year, entry-level contract beginning with the 2026-27 season and he will join Springfield for the remainder of the season on an amateur tryout.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lou Korac (@lkorac10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lkorac10\/status\/2036081107989377066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old 6&#8217;2&#8243; forward will now join the Blues&#8217; AHL affiliate Springfield for the remainder of the season on a professional tryout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau, playing for Sacred Heart University in the AHA conference, was second in the nation in goals, with 25, and was\u00a0sixth nationally with 48 points in 39 games. Additionally, his 12 power\u2011play goals were tops in the NCAA. He had a plus-14 rating, and recorded 87 penalty minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He earned honors as\u00a0the AHA\u2019s Player of the Year, and is\u00a0a Top 10 finalist for the Hobey Baker Award as the top NCAA men\u2019s hockey player.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau is\u00a0a dominant offensive force, an elite playmaker with a deadly shot, and a high hockey IQ. He also has the size to\u00a0protect the puck and win puck battles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His ELC will begin next season with the Blues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis is on the cusp of a big rebuild, having dealt away veterans Brayden Schenn and Justin Faulk at the deadline earlier this month, with others on the trade block including Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyrou and Jordan Binnington.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: \u00a9 Simon Fearn-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The St. Louis Blues have made a move for their future, signing one of the top NCAA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,181,4,465,550,106,60,107,549,548,546,547,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-519873","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-hockey","10":"tag-hockey-news","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-draft","13":"tag-nhl-free-agency","14":"tag-nhl-news","15":"tag-nhl-playoffs","16":"tag-nhl-rumors","17":"tag-nhl-teams","18":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","19":"tag-nhl-trade-rumors","20":"tag-nhl-trades","21":"tag-st-louis","22":"tag-st-louis-blues","23":"tag-stlouis","24":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116283129541096945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519873","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=519873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}