The St. Louis Blues, at this point, are playing better hockey than most of us anticipated. But without their star player in Robert Thomas, someone needs to come up big, and some may point to winger Jordan Kyrou.
I agree 1,000 percent here, as Kyrou has always shown us he’s more than capable of putting up big numbers for the Blues. He’s also, unfortunately, shown us the opposite: that he can be outright awful or at least inconsistent for stretches.
Throughout the first nine games of the Blues 2024-25 season, we’re seeing it happen again. With six points and two goals in the first three games, we all may have thought Kyrou would finally break out into stardom, but that hasn’t quite happened.
He’s put up just three assists in the last six games, and while that still averages to a solid nine points on the season, Kyrou is once again disappearing at times on the score sheet. For fans, draft busts are hard to watch, but players like Kyrou are sometimes even more disappointing because they’ve proven so many times that they can perform better.
St. Louis Blues winger needs to show more consistency
For now, at least, these aren’t last season’s St. Louis Blues. You know, the ones that got off to a rough start and never really seemed to get it together consistently, much like Kyrou’s play this season.
But when you look at players like Philip Broberg, Mathieu Joseph, Dylan Holloway, and Jake Neighbours (at least after his first few games), all of whom have contributed well so far, Kyrou needs to be the one leading them. No, not everyone listed above has been consistent on the score sheet, but the kicker is, we didn’t expect any of them to be except for perhaps Neighbours, who has been fine so far after that slow start.
That said, expectations are higher for players like Kyrou, and he needs to start showing it. He’s also coughed the puck up 10 times in his first nine games and stolen it three times, none of which shine statistically.
In his defense, however, his possession metrics at even strength are spectacular, so there is evidence he’s pitching in elsewhere. Kyrou remains a 50-plus player in the Corsi, his on-ice shooting percentage is a solid 12.5, and on-ice save percentage sits at 95.9 percent. So I’m not going to lambaste Kyrou, as there has been consistency in other areas, but overall, he needs to be a factor every time he skates onto the ice.