{"id":315437,"date":"2026-04-08T17:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=315437"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:09:17","slug":"nhl-rumors-david-carle-the-st-louis-blues-robert-thomas-trade-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/nhl-rumors-david-carle-the-st-louis-blues-robert-thomas-trade-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumors: David Carle, the St. Louis Blues &#8211; Robert Thomas Trade Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 id=\"david-carle-isnt-in-any-rush-to-leave-denver-and-return-to-the-nhl\"><strong>David Carle isn\u2019t in any rush to go away Denver and return to the NHL<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7175521\/2026\/04\/07\/david-carle-denver-frozen-four\/\"><strong>Joe Smith of The Athletic<\/strong><\/a>: David Carle spoke with the Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Geese last offseason a couple of head coaching position, nevertheless it left him feeling \u201cthere\u2019s zero reason to go away Denver within the near term \u2014 if ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carle\u2019s back within the Frozen 4 with Denver and his name will likely come up again this offseason. He said that feelings haven\u2019t modified and things are \u201cestablishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m no more close-minded, no more open-minded to it,\u201d Carle said. \u201cThere\u2019s no rush to go away here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">NHL Rumors: Pittsburgh Penguins, and the Florida Panthers<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-trade-talk-was-legit-but-were-the-st-louis-blues-also-trying-to-light-a-fire-under-robert-thomas\"><strong>The trade talk was legit, but were the St. Louis Blues also attempting to light a hearth under Robert Thomas?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=88_SgzYSHuQ\"><strong>Sportsnet<\/strong><\/a>: Elliotte Friedman, on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast \u2013 The Easter Exit episode on St. Louis Blues forward Robert Thomas scoring a hat trick on Saturday and the trade deadline speculation.<\/p>\n<p><em>** NHLRumors.com transcription<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cYou understand, I used to be watching that, and I\u2019m considering to myself, how are you going to trade this guy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Bukauskas: \u201cI used to be considering the identical. I\u2019m like, Really? That is the guy they\u2019re taking a look at trading.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cThe more I, the more I have a look at that, and I do think they thought of it prefer it was legit. As he has said, they never got here to him.<\/p>\n<p>But I do think they looked into it, was serious. The more I watch it now, the more I feel they only wish to light a hearth under the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bukauskas: \u201cIt\u2019s it might fit their history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cMO, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bukauskas: \u201cYeah. I mean, whether that did it or not, he\u2019s playing great straight away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Friedman: \u201cYeah, I watched Thomas, and I used to be, I used to be considering, I\u2019ve thought that a bit, that they wanted it known, that they were talking about him.<\/p>\n<p>And I feel they, to me, the most probably team was all the time Utah. They usually felt that, I feel at the tip, they felt that Utah wouldn\u2019t put (Caleb) Desnoyers or (Tij) Iginla in it, they usually weren\u2019t doing it without not less than one in every of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The St. Louis Blues May Not Stand In Doug Armstrong\u2019s Way<\/p>\n<p>But I don\u2019t think the blues were too unhappy for Thomas, to see if Thomas felt slightly uncomfortable with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We needed to restart our X account. Please follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MyNHLRumorsX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MyNHLRumorsX<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have you ever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NHLRumorsOfficial\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribed to our YouTube channel<\/a>? Rumor roundups and hot topics from across the league. We\u2019re also posting some stuff on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/officialnhlrumors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In case you love our reporting, select NHLrumors.com as a preferred source on Google.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Carle isn\u2019t in any rush to go away Denver and return to the NHL Joe Smith of The Athletic: David Carle spoke with the Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Geese last offseason a couple of head coaching position, nevertheless it left him feeling \u201cthere\u2019s zero reason to go away Denver within the near term \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":315438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[2307,50386,3921,9530,649,8712,1296,4285,6196,3838],"class_list":["post-315437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-blues","tag-carle","tag-david","tag-louis","tag-nhl","tag-robert","tag-rumors","tag-talk","tag-thomas","tag-trade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315440,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315437\/revisions\/315440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}