The St. Louis Blues open their on-ice portion of training camp for the 2024-25 season on Thursday and the team announced on Wednesday that six players will join on tryouts.
Forwards Nikita Alexandrov, Sam Bitten, and Matthew Peca; defenseman Scott Harrington and goaltender David Tendeck will join on professional tryouts while forward Jake Gudelj will be on an amateur tryout.
Alexandrov, a second-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, has played in 51 games the past two seasons (three goals, six assists) but is a restricted free agent that received a qualifying offer that remains unsigned.
“Right now, we’re at 50 contracts too,” Armstrong said, “so Niki’s going to come to camp. We’re working on getting something that he’s comfortable with under contract for when our junior players go back. Those things open up, but he wants to bein camp, he wants to push for a roster spot and he and I and his agent are working behind the scenes to make sure that gets done. He’ll just come in on a PTO now and we’ll take care of that as the camp progresses.”
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Bitten, Harrington and Peca are under contract with Springfield of the American Hockey League.
Harrington is a nine-year NHL veteran who last played in the NHL in 2022-23 with the San Jose Sharks and Anaheim Ducks.
Gudelj recently competed with Blues prospects this past weekend at the Tom Kurvers Prospect Showcase at Centene Community Ice Center.
A complete training camp roster and schedule for the first four days of camp can be found here. The Blues open the preseason Saturday at the Dallas Stars and face the Utah Hockey Club in Des Moines, Iowa on Sunday. Puck drop for each game is 6 p.m.
