{"id":135351,"date":"2023-02-17T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=135351"},"modified":"2023-02-17T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T04:29:52","slug":"st-louis-blues-trade-ryan-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/02\/17\/st-louis-blues-trade-ryan-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues Trade Star Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Main Photo: Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> big fish is off the market. The team has traded centre and captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oreilry01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs, <\/a>along with forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/acciano01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noel Acciari<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">. <\/a>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/tarasvl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-09_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vladimir Tarasenko<\/a> was, he is a pending unrestricted free agent and can sign with anyone once the season ends. The Blues capitalize on their star talent, after already selling another star forward <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/02\/09\/st-louis-blues-trade-star-forward\/\" target=\"_self\">earlier this deadline<\/a>. In the deal, they send to the Blues Mikhail Abramov and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gaudead01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-02-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Gaudette<\/a>, along with Toronto&#8217;s 2023 first-round pick and 2024 fourth-round pick, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>&#8216; 2024 2nd round pick. In exchange for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/wild\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> retaining 25% of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s contract, they receive Toronto&#8217;s 2024 conditional fourth-round pick and send prospect Josh Pillar the other way.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ryan O\u2019Reilly Traded Away From Blues<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have acquired Ryan O\u2019Reilly &amp; Noel Acciari in a three-team trade with St. Louis &amp; Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>STL receives Mikhail Abramov &amp; Adam Gaudette, TOR&#8217;s 1st round pick in &#8217;23, OTT&#8217;s 3rd round pick in &#8217;23 &amp; TOR&#8217;s 2nd round pick in &#8217;24. MIN receives TOR&#8217;s 4th round pick in &#8217;25. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QAOUZvUZfH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/QAOUZvUZfH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Maple Leafs (@MapleLeafs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MapleLeafs\/status\/1626791247565189121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ryan O\u2019Reilly has been traded away from the Blues. After spending the last five seasons with the team, they opted to move him for a sizeable return. The elite two-way centre has a new home. There is a lot to love for this team as O\u2019Reilly comes in as a playoff performer and has a winning pedigree along with him. Great move as they push into the playoffs. However, he is returning from a broken foot and needs to get in the groove. But getting healthy just in time for the playoff run is a significant boost for himself and the team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How This Trade Benefits His New Team<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ryan O\u2019Reilly being traded benefits them in many ways. O\u2019Reilly comes in as a Conn Smythe Winner (2019), a Stanley Cup Champion (2019), and Selke Trophy (2019). Over the course of his career, he has produced under 50 points just three times. Consistency has always been his thing, excelling on both ends of the ice. He is having one of his worst seasons to date. O\u2019Reilly is also a very large minus in what is an underwhelming stat for him, but he is not the only one in the Blues. In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statmuse.com\/nhl\/ask?q=ryan+o%27reilly+career+takeaways\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he has 915 takeaways<\/a> in his career and led the league in that regard in his seasons with Colorado. O\u2019Reilly is the perfect fit for this team as he forechecks hard and is reliable in all situations. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Photo: Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Another one of the St. Louis Blues big fish is off the market. The team has traded centre and captain Ryan O&#8217;Reilly to the Toronto Maple Leafs, along with forward Noel Acciari. Like Vladimir Tarasenko was, he is a pending unrestricted free agent and can sign with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4194,"featured_media":135355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,34,4548,32],"tags":[5865,5801],"class_list":["post-135351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-blues","tag-st-louis-blues-analysis","tag-st-louis-blues-news"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}