Quinton Burnt Inks Entry Level Deal
PuckPedia: St. Louis Blues signed Quinton Burns to a three-year contract late Friday.
His base salary in the deal will be an average of $775,000. That does not include the possibility of bonuses. Those bonuses bring the AAV up to $950,000. Burns and the Blues agreed to a $95,000 signing bonus.
Also, there are performance bonuses up to $80,000. Burns was the 74th pick of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. The defenseman scored 68 points in 154 games with the OHL’s Kingston Frotenacs. He had 35 points in 58 games last year.
St. Louis needs defenders and Burns improved during his time in the minors.
It will be interesting to see where Burns plays this season. Most likely, he will start again in the OHL but after that, stay tuned.
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Sammy Blais Gets Tryout With Vancouver
PuckPedia: Former St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers Forward Sammy Blais received a PTO with the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday. He also signed with the Abbotsford Canucks of the AHL.
Last season was a down season for Blais who returned to St. Louis after being traded to the New York Rangers. He had a goal and six assists in 53 games with the Blues.
Blais has a habit of impressing the kids and during the preseason with his two plays. He has 55 goals and 105 points in 148 AHL games with Chicago, San Antonio, and Hartford.
Blais was a sixth round draft pick of the St. Louis Blues in the 2014 NHL Draft.
Juan Copeland Takes a Different Path to NHL Probability
Jon Paul Morosi: Odds’ path to the NHL can be far from straight at times. Juan Copeland is a good example. He is now a different player in the sense that Copeland played in the OHL, USHL, and Puerto Rico all in the same calendar year.
It was a great game for a player who can play on both wings and has a nose for the net.
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Also, Copeland thought he would go to Boston University. That didn’t happen. He thought after his first season at Niagra, things would be easy, they weren’t. It was all wars. Copeland can show other Caribbean players how and what it takes to get closer to their NHL dreams.
Maybe Copeland never gets close to the NHL but he will inspire a lot of hockey players who want to achieve that dream from non-traditional places.
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