Quinton Burns Inks An Entry-Stage Deal

PuckPedia: The St. Louis Blues signed Quinton Burns to a three-year entry-level deal late on Friday.

His base wage on the deal would be the customary $775,000. That doesn’t embody the potential of bonuses. These bonuses convey the AAV as much as $950,000. Burns and the Blues agreed to a signing bonus of $95,000.

Additionally, there are efficiency bonuses which complete as much as $80,000. Burns was the 74th choice of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. The defenseman notched 68 factors in 154 video games with the OHL’s Kingston Frotenacs. He had 35 factors in 58 video games final yr.

St. Louis wants defensemen and Burns has improved in his time in juniors.

It will likely be intriguing to see the place Burns performs this season. Greater than probably, he begins out within the OHL once more however after that, keep tuned.

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Sammy Blais Will get A Tryout With Vancouver

PuckPedia: Former St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers Ahead Sammy Blais acquired a PTO with the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.  He additionally signed with the Abbotsford Canucks of the AHL.

Final season was a largely down season for Blais who returned to St. Louis after being moved to the New York Rangers. He had a objective and 6 assists in 53 video games with the Blues.

Blais has a behavior of impressing within the minors and throughout the preseason along with his two-way play. He does have 55 targets and 105 factors in 148 profession AHL video games spanning Chicago, San Antonio, and Hartford.

Blais was a sixth-round draft decide of the St. Louis Blues within the 2014 NHL Draft.

Juan Copeland Takes Totally different Path To Perhaps The NHL

Jon Paul Morosi: The elusive path to the NHL will be removed from a straight one at occasions. Juan Copeland gives a obtrusive instance. He’s now a novel participant within the sense that Copeland performed within the OHL, USHL, and for Puerto Rico all in the identical calendar yr.

It has been fairly an journey for the participant who can play on each wings and has a nostril for the online.

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Once more, Copeland thought he would go to Boston College. That didn’t occur. He thought after his first season at Niagra, issues could be straightforward, they weren’t. It has been all about battles. Copeland can present different Caribbean gamers how and what it takes to get nearer to their NHL desires.

Perhaps Copeland by no means comes near the NHL however he’ll encourage loads of hockey gamers trying to obtain that dream from non-traditional locales.