Management of the hockey club St. Louis Blues are no longer interested in Czech forward Jakub Vrána.
According to the renowned website The Athletic, the Blues placed the 27-year-old hockey player on the list of free agents and offered him to other clubs in the NHL.
Vrána, who won the Stanley Cup with Washington in 2018, had a miserable start to the season.
He played in only 19 games, in which he collected six points for two goals and four assists, but he often did not fit into the lineup.
St. Louis acquired Vrana from Detroit in March in exchange for Dylan McLaughlin and a seventh-round pick in the 2025 draft.
The forward, who was chosen by Washington as the thirteenth pick in the 2014 draft, has played 365 games in the NHL so far and recorded 209 points (110+99).
On the contrary, another Czech striker is experiencing a successful period in the elite league. The San Jose forward was named the second star of the past week in the overseas NHL.
The main award went to Nikita Kučerov from Tampa Bay, and another forward Sam Reinhart from Florida came in third.
Hertl has had a very unusual week with the Sharks, who remain the worst team in the competition but have shown significant improvement in recent games compared to the start of the season.
They played three matches during it, and although they lost in all of them by at least a two-goal difference, they eventually won five points out of six possible. Team leader Hertl contributed six points for five goals and an assist.
The Californian team first overcame a 1:4 deficit in the New York Islanders arena to win 5:4 in overtime, and the 30-year-old native of Prague contributed to this with the sixth hat trick of his career in the NHL.
The game in Detroit followed, where the Sharks were losing 0:4 and then 4:5, but thanks to Hertl’s two hits, they again celebrated a 6:5 win in overtime.
The last time San Jose appeared on the Vegas ice, they saved a point despite losing 1:3 and 2:4. The defending champions of the Stanley Cup then managed better individual raids. Hertl extended his personal point streak to five games with the assist.
In total, he scored 24 points for nine goals and 15 assists in 27 starts this season and is at the head of the team’s productivity. He is also the Sharks leading scorer and scorer.
Kučerov was significantly responsible for the fact that the Lightning won three out of four games last week. In all successful matches, he was the author of the winning goal.
The 30-year-old Russian forward scored a total of seven points for four goals and three assists during the given period. The best player of the month of November thus improved to 47 points (19+28) from 28 games and leads the entire NHL in scoring. The second JT Miller from Vancouver loses seven points to him, the third David Pastrňák from Boston by one more point.
The 28-year-old Reinhart was the most productive player in the past week with eight points per goal and seven assists. He was instrumental in the Panthers winning all three games.
He excelled especially in the last game in Columbus, where he contributed to a 5:2 victory with four saves. He has a total of 37 points (17+20) from 27 games this season.
2023-12-11 19:01:09
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