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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1791294" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/blues-jordan-kyrou-signs-8-year-65-million-contract-extension/article_fcc2cfcd-3adf-57ec-9456-31cf3a332484.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/jthomas" target="_blank">Jim Thomas</a></p><p>When Robert Thomas was signed to a franchise-record eight-year, $65 million contract extension on July 13, Blues general manager Doug Armstrong mentioned that teammate Jordan Kyrou was next in line.</p><p>“Moving forward, Robert and Jordan, they're becoming more and more the alpha males - and the game is trending towards that,” Armstrong said at the time. “I think Kyrou, you saw what he did last year, needs to be a top player for us to be a top franchise.</p><p>“The question might be well, why Robert before Jordan? Like the old analogy, how do you get the horses back in the barn?</p><p>“One at a time. So we got one horse back in the barn and now we'll go to work on some of the other guys.”</p><p></p><p>Well, exactly two months after signing Thomas, Armstrong got another horse in the barn. A thoroughbred actually, when Kyrou was signed to a contract extension Tuesday. It’s an eight-year, $65 million deal – with an average annual value of $8.125 million. It's the same deal as Thomas.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The latest move is another indication that Thomas and Kyrou are the future of Blues hockey.</p><p>At age 24, Kyrou is 14 months older than Thomas and was drafted one year earlier (in 2016). It has taken Kyrou slightly longer to develop, but both players basically have been joined at the hip as highly-touted prospects.</p><p></p><p>Both are making $2.8 million this season and were scheduled to be arbitration-eligible restricted free agents before their extensions this offseason. Now, they’re both budding stars, locked up until the start of the next decade.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1791294, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/hockey/professional/blues-jordan-kyrou-signs-8-year-65-million-contract-extension/article_fcc2cfcd-3adf-57ec-9456-31cf3a332484.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/jthomas']Jim Thomas[/URL] When Robert Thomas was signed to a franchise-record eight-year, $65 million contract extension on July 13, Blues general manager Doug Armstrong mentioned that teammate Jordan Kyrou was next in line. “Moving forward, Robert and Jordan, they're becoming more and more the alpha males - and the game is trending towards that,” Armstrong said at the time. “I think Kyrou, you saw what he did last year, needs to be a top player for us to be a top franchise. “The question might be well, why Robert before Jordan? Like the old analogy, how do you get the horses back in the barn? “One at a time. So we got one horse back in the barn and now we'll go to work on some of the other guys.” Well, exactly two months after signing Thomas, Armstrong got another horse in the barn. A thoroughbred actually, when Kyrou was signed to a contract extension Tuesday. It’s an eight-year, $65 million deal – with an average annual value of $8.125 million. It's the same deal as Thomas. The latest move is another indication that Thomas and Kyrou are the future of Blues hockey. At age 24, Kyrou is 14 months older than Thomas and was drafted one year earlier (in 2016). It has taken Kyrou slightly longer to develop, but both players basically have been joined at the hip as highly-touted prospects. Both are making $2.8 million this season and were scheduled to be arbitration-eligible restricted free agents before their extensions this offseason. Now, they’re both budding stars, locked up until the start of the next decade. [/QUOTE]
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