The National Hockey League announced today that Blues forward Robert Thomas\u00a0has been named \u2018Third Star\u2019 for the week ending April 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Rickard Rakell\u00a0and New Jersey Devils forward\u00a0Jack Hughes\u00a0were named first and second star, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thomas recorded eight points (five goals, three assists) in four games as the Blues (33\u201131\u201112, 78 points) posted a 2\u20111\u20111 week to move within three points of the second Wild Card position in the Western Conference. He collected one assist against the San Jose Sharks on Monday before scoring the tying goal with 3:53 remaining in the third period against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday.\u00a0 Thomas then notched consecutive three\u2011point performances, tallying a goal and two assists in a 6\u20112 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday, followed by his first career hat trick \u2014 capped by the tie-breaking goal with 2:50 left in regulation \u2014 in a 3\u20112 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Aurora, Ontario, native has points in 16 of his last 18 appearances (11 goals, 15 assists) and leads the Blues with 56 points (21 goals, 35 assists) overall this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League announced today that Blues forward Robert Thomas\u00a0has been named \u2018Third Star\u2019 for the week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,4,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-544072","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-nhl","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-blues","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116358921887573494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544072","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=544072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}