{"id":438668,"date":"2023-06-27T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438668"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:11:20","slug":"blues-acquire-kevin-hayes-from-flyers-for-6th-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/blues-acquire-kevin-hayes-from-flyers-for-6th-round-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues acquire Kevin Hayes from Flyers for 6th round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have acquired center Kevin Hayes from the Philadelphia Flyers for the sixth-round pick in the 2024 draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TRADE ALERT! The Blues have acquired forward Kevin Hayes from the Philadelphia Flyers. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stlblues?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#stlblues<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>DETAILS: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fBDbXctqnZ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/fBDbXctqnZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YRlkjx8OPR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YRlkjx8OPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StLouisBlues\/status\/1673742719754158082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Flyers will be retaining half of Hayes\u2019 $7.14 million salary cap hit for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes will give the Blues experience as they will aim to the playoffs next season. The 31-year-old has capped nearly 700 NHL games and will look to restore St. Louis&#8217; winning mentality.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the Flyers back in 2019 on a seven-year-deal worth $50m and enjoyed an excellent debut campaign with them, netting 23 goals and reaching 54 points.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hayes got into an altercations with head-coach John Tortorella, which resulted in him receiving limited playing time. He was also troubled by injury, which affected his form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues have acquired center Kevin Hayes from the Philadelphia Flyers for the sixth-round pick in the 2024 draft. TRADE ALERT! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":438669,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16717,16893],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[20153,17891,18101],"acf":{"announce":"The 31-year-old will be looking to bolster the St. Louis squad","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438668"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438668"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}