Prospect Info: Robert Thomas (20th overall in 2017)

[542365]

Piece in the Athletic is great. It’s cool how close the families were before Robert was even drafted. Matthew stayed with the Thomas family in junior while he was training with Gary Roberts. Then Thomas is drafted by the Blues and Matthew pretty much said immediately that Robert has to stay at his house. Makes me feel like Tkachuk may have had a big influence on the Blues drafting Thomas.

 

[Dbrownss]

Piece in the Athletic is great. It’s cool how close the families were before Robert was even drafted. Matthew stayed with the Thomas family in junior while he was training with Gary Roberts. Then Thomas is drafted by the Blues and Matthew pretty much said immediately that Robert has to stay at his house. Makes me feel like Tkachuk may have had a big influence on the Blues drafting Thomas.

Hopefully Thomas has something to do with Matt giving Calgary the finger to come to Stl.

 

[Stealth JD]

Hopefully Thomas has something to do with Matt giving Calgary the finger to come to Stl.

Man...if Matthew and Brady came back to play for their hometown Blues in 5-6 years...that would be incredible.

 

[PiggySmalls]

Yes that article in the Athletic really pumps you up for what Thomas could become. Keith and his whole family has been nothing but great for hockey everywhere in the STL area. We are lucky he stuck around. Hopefully many years down the road his 2 other Brothers from another mother will come home to STL.

At the Tkachuk house, it all revolves around Blues rookie...

 

[BlueDream]

Love the Tkachuk family and what they’ve done for STL. Will go down as one of the greatest hockey families ever. You can’t teach that type of success, and Walt is a good hockey mind for Thomas to learn from, among others.

I’d take the Tkachuk boys on my team any day.

It’s pretty cool how Matthew admitted that when the Flames are out he still actively roots for the Blues.

 

[JoshFromMO]

I have a feeling Matthew and Thomas will be future teammates, I just hope it's here in STL where they belong.

Also I love the Tkachuk family and what they've done

 

[tfriede2]

Pierre Maguire was on Bernie’s radio show this morning - he said Thomas will be a 70-85 point player and “maybe more.” Pierre pumps so many young players’ tires it’s ridiculous, but still nice to hear.

 

[Stealth JD]

Love the Tkachuk family and what they’ve done for STL. Will go down as one of the greatest hockey families ever. You can’t teach that type of success, and Walt is a good hockey mind for Thomas to learn from, among others.

I’d take the Tkachuk boys on my team any day.

It’s pretty cool how Matthew admitted that when the Flames are out he still actively roots for the Blues.

Man, i would hope Flames fans wouldn't be bitter if they saw Matthew celebrating a Blues Cup win. It's cool that these guys are still fans. If the Oilers won a Cup and I saw Parayko wearing an Oiler's hat and cheering at their parade, I'd think that would be cool as hell, and not a slight at all to the city of St. Louis or the Blues organization. I'd still want that guy on my team and know that he's giving it his all because he's a proud professional. I don't know how many Calgary "fans" would begrudge the guy...but with Canada being passionate, I'd hope the number would be surprisingly high...so they'd run him out of town and off to STL sooner .

 

[Spear]

Man, i would hope Flames fans wouldn't be bitter if they saw Matthew celebrating a Blues Cup win. It's cool that these guys are still fans. If the Oilers won a Cup and I saw Parayko wearing an Oiler's hat and cheering at their parade, I'd think that would be cool as hell, and not a slight at all to the city of St. Louis or the Blues organization. I'd still want that guy on my team and know that he's giving it his all because he's a proud professional. I don't know how many Calgary "fans" would begrudge the guy...but with Canada being passionate, I'd hope the number would be surprisingly high...so they'd run him out of town and off to STL sooner .

 

[PiggySmalls]

Man, i would hope Flames fans wouldn't be bitter if they saw Matthew celebrating a Blues Cup win. It's cool that these guys are still fans. If the Oilers won a Cup and I saw Parayko wearing an Oiler's hat and cheering at their parade, I'd think that would be cool as hell, and not a slight at all to the city of St. Louis or the Blues organization. I'd still want that guy on my team and know that he's giving it his all because he's a proud professional. I don't know how many Calgary "fans" would begrudge the guy...but with Canada being passionate, I'd hope the number would be surprisingly high...so they'd run him out of town and off to STL sooner .

Then after leaving the parade. Him and Brady get in an Uber with a camera and Brady talks about how Melynk is killing the Sens. Thus pissing Gene off so he forces Dorian to trade Brady away. To save face Army offers them Sanford, a ‘21 1st round, and toasted raviolis.

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

Schwartz-O’Reilly-Tarasenko
M. Tkachuk-Thomas-Kyrou


God the thought of this top 6...please somehow make it happen Army.

 

[simon IC]

Schwartz-O’Reilly-Tarasenko
M. Tkachuk-Thomas-Kyrou


God the thought of this top 6...please somehow make it happen Army.

C-can't ... type ....sali ...vating ...too much ...

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

C-can't ... type ....sali ...vating ...too much ...

Right lol

 

[Alklha]

Thomas undergoes successful surgery on left wrist

 

[brokeu91]

Kid's going to be total stud. He was one of our best players in the Dallas series as a rookie.

 

[67Blues]

Hopefully Kyrou's coming out party will be next season and be as successful as Thomas'

 

[Note Worthy]

It said he injured it in game 6 against the Sharks. I thought it was injured before that?

 

[MissouriMook]

It said he injured it in game 6 against the Sharks. I thought it was injured before that?

I thought so, too. It seemed like he had been held out of practices and game day skates since the Dallas series.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I thought so, too. It seemed like he had been held out of practices and game day skates since the Dallas series.

I thought he had a lower body injury earlier, nothing as serious obviously.

 

[Rarename91]

bring brady and matt home dont pull a trout and f*** over your hometown to get more money.

 

[TheGoldenGod]

He's off to a slow start offensively. Puck management/decision making hasn't been very good. Timing seems a bit off (yes, i know he's 20 and coming off injury). I'm a big fan of his but every time I critique him I get beaten with a stick so that's all I'll say...

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Commence beating.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Bust

 

[BlueDream]

Lol what?

 

[JR1]

I thought RT looked a little less tentative Wednesday night and appeared a bit more confident. He was not shying away from contact in the offensive zone. I suppose he heard chief’s comments about needing more from him. I thought he was much better Wednesday night.