One of the top available prizes on the NHL trade market this summer may be St. Louis Blues winger Jordan Kyrou.
Kyrou has long been rumored to be on the move out of St. Louis, and those rumors may finally come to fruition after the Blues missed the playoffs this season for the third time in four years. According to the Ottawa Citizen’s Bruce Garrioch, the Blues are making it known that they are shopping Kyrou, but he won’t come cheap.
Garrioch writes:
League executives say that Jordan Kyrou of the St. Louis Blues, who has 178 goals and 378 points in 488 NHL games, is available, but the Senators would have to pay a high price You’re looking at a high-end player, a top prospect, and a first-round pick. “The Blues want a king’s ransom for him,” a league executive said.
The 28-year-old winger had recorded at least 67 points in four straight seasons before this year, battling inconsistency to finish with 46 points (18g, 28a) in 72 games. While the production didn’t match his past efforts, Kyrou was arguably the Blues’ top player at five-on-five, as with him on the ice, the team saw 54.4 percent of shot attempts, 59.4 percent of expected goals, 60 percent of scoring chances, and 58.7 percent of high-danger chances.
Kyrou has five seasons remaining on his contract, carrying an $8.125 million cap hit, with a full no-trade clause that shrinks to a 15-team no-trade list in the final year. The Blues will need his approval before trading him anywhere this offseason.
The Washington Capitals could be one of the top teams interested in Kyrou, who would add a nice injection of speed into their lineup. Caps general manager Chris Patrick is after an upgrade to the team’s top-six forward group this summer and has stockpiled the assets to make a bigger move.
Kyrou, a Toronto native, does have a few prior connections to the Capitals. He spent a couple of seasons as a junior teammate of Jakob Chychrun in the OHL with the Sarnia Sting, and he has played with Pierre-Luc Dubois in junior tournaments for Canada.
According to PuckPedia, the Caps are expected to have $36.6 million in open space ahead of the 2026-27 campaign. They could easily fit Kyrou’s cap hit on their roster and address other areas they’d like to improve, such as a right-handed defenseman.
