The St. Louis Blues have already unveiled a recent, updated uniform search for the 2025-26 NHL season, and now they’ve made a key addition to their lineup for the subsequent two seasons.
Former Vancouver Canucks forward Pius Suter has agreed to hitch the Blues, signing a two-year, $8.25 million contract with a $4.125 million cap hit. Suter reached a brand new career-high with 25 goals within the 2024-25 season with the Canucks, which was his second with the club.
While Suter and the Canucks were the most effective team within the Pacific Division in 2023-24 and advanced to Game 7 of the Western Conference Semi-Final, they were unable to duplicate that success this season and ultimately missed the postseason.
Suter is the third acquisition by the Blues thus far within the offseason, as they signed free-agent forward Nick Bjugstad while also acquiring Logan Mailloux in a trade with the Montreal Canadiens for Zack Bolduc.
Suter will likely be deployed because the third-line center with the Blues.
Latest Blues forward Pius Suter is coming off a profession yr
A native of Wallisellen, Switzerland, Suter played professionally in his native country before earning an invitation to Training Camp for the Ottawa Senators in 2017 and later with the Latest York Islanders the next season.
Never drafted, he would ultimately sign a one-year, entry-level contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2020. But due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, Suter returned to Switzerland before eventually making his NHL debut with Chicago within the 2020-21 NHL season. He would play in 55 games with the Blackhawks, scoring 14 goals with 13 assists, including his first profession hat trick against the Detroit Red Wings at United Center.
Suter would then join the Red Wings in the course of the 2021 offseason, signing a two-year contract. Over the subsequent two seasons, he would play in 161 regular season games and rating 29 goals with 31 assists. After the Red Wings didn’t earn a postseason spot in each of his seasons with the club, he signed with the Canucks in 2023.
While he only scored 14 goals in his first season with the Canucks, he broke out offensively in 2024-25, scoring 25 goals with 21 assists.
Suter played in a complete of 364 NHL games, scoring 82 goals with 80 assists. He’s also played in 13 profession Stanley Cup Playoff games, scoring twice while adding an assist.