{"id":87265,"date":"2020-10-09T20:26:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87265"},"modified":"2020-10-09T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:40:30","slug":"torey-krug-signs-with-st-louis-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/09\/torey-krug-signs-with-st-louis-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Torey Krug Signs with St. Louis Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/blues\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues <\/a>have signed unrestricted free agent defenceman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/krugto01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Torey Krug<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to a seven-year deal worth $6.5 million per season, equalling $45.5 million total. This contract carries Krug through the 2026\u201327 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"nl\">Krug is 7x$6.5M<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1314723291525984256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Torey Krug Signs with St. Louis<\/h2>\n<p>The Bruins will certainly be parting with their longtime defenceman this offseason. Krug has spent seven years as a full-time member of the squad, and played games in two other seasons as well. Across his nine seasons as a Bruin, Krug has played 523 games in a black and gold uniform and tallied 67 goals and 270 assists for 337 points. Krug&#8217;s been a stellar power-play quarterback over the years for the team, with 24 of those 67 goals coming on the man-advantage. He&#8217;s consistently logged over 20 minutes a night for the past five seasons. It will be difficult for the Bruins to replace Krug&#8217;s spot in the lineup.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means For the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Blues are getting an instant boost to their power-play; Krug is one of the best in the league at controlling play at five-on-four. Of course with Krug signing this likely all but ensures the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pietral01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Pietrangelo<\/a>&#8216;s time as the captain in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are also gaining defensive depth just by his acquisition. Krug is certainly capable of playing second-pairing minutes and could slot into the top pair if needed. He&#8217;s likely more suited for a second-pairing role, as his defensive deficiencies may be exposed by first-pairing responsibilities. Largely an offensive defenceman, Krug has never been known for his defensive prowess. The Blues should pair him with someone more defensively responsible. A pairing with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/carlobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Carlo<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in Boston maximized Krug&#8217;s effectiveness, so a similar setup will be necessary in order to get the most out of his play.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"lSxzmbruRldZsRBZkIaZKw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1269524774\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'lSxzmbruRldZsRBZkIaZKw',sig:'JxxAqaD54Osw5inYccSMltjDyADMVqJwNhCpXgtKk0g=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1269524774',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have signed unrestricted free agent defenceman Torey Krug\u00a0to a seven-year deal worth $6.5 million per season, equalling $45.5 million total. This contract carries Krug through the 2026\u201327 season. Krug is 7x$6.5M \u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) October 10, 2020 Torey Krug Signs with St. Louis The Bruins will certainly be parting with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3006,"featured_media":87266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[34,4547,4548,32],"tags":[90,37,38,39,1535],"class_list":["post-87265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-blues","tag-boston-bruins","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-torey-krug"],"modified_by":"Nik Kowalski, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265","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\/3006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}