- Jordan Kyrou is back in trade rumors after a 46-point season
- His full no-trade clause means he picks where he lands
- Read below for the Islanders fit and what a deal could cost
Jordan Kyrou’s name won’t leave the rumor mill.
St. Louis kept the winger on the trade board into the summer, and NHL.com’s Stefen Rosner recently floated a fit with the New York Islanders. Three months after the deadline, both sides sit in a different spot, and the conversation hasn’t gone anywhere.
Kyrou is coming off the roughest stretch of his career. He put up 46 points this season, a steep drop for a player who cleared 70 just three years ago.
Part of the slide traces back to fit. The structured, possession-first systems under Drew Bannister and Jim Montgomery never meshed with Kyrou’s run-and-gun game, and he bounced around the lineup because of it.
So why do teams keep calling? Kyrou is a true spark plug, and there aren’t many of those on the market. He has 149 goals since the start of 2021-22 and earned Selke votes in each of the last two seasons for the work he added away from the puck.
When everything clicks, Kyrou is a 70-point scorer. He set a career high with 73 in 2022-23 and led the Blues in scoring that year.
Take a look at the ceiling, going back to his first career hat trick:
There’s a catch. Kyrou holds a full no-trade clause, so he controls where he goes. The Islanders chased him hard before the March deadline, but the talks fell apart when St. Louis asked for defense prospect Kashawn Aitcheson.
Rookie GM Alexander Steen is remaking this roster on the fly. He already shipped Justin Faulk to Detroit, and the asking prices coming out of St. Louis have turned heads around the league.
Steen has a 28-year-old scorer half the league wants and a no-trade clause that hands Kyrou the pen. That makes this a summer-long staredown, not a quick deal.
