{"id":392449,"date":"2025-11-20T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392449\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:01:12","slug":"blues-alexandre-texier-considering-contract-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/392449\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues’ Alexandre Texier Considering Contract Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blues winger\u00a0Alexandre Texier<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>has considered asking for a contract termination to become an unrestricted free agent, reports Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet<\/a>. He remains on the Blues\u2019 roster for now but has played just once since Oct. 28, sitting as a healthy scratch in nine of their last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Texier, the first player in NHL history drafted directly from France\u2019s Ligue Magnus, signed a two-year, $4.2MM contract with the Blues in June 2024 after they acquired his signing rights from the Blue Jackets. He was coming off a career-high 12 goals and 30 points in 78 games with Columbus, averaging north of 15 minutes per game, but the team wasn\u2019t interested in re-signing him as they opened roster spots for a younger wave of prospects.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old just hasn\u2019t been a fit in St. Louis. He made only 31 appearances last season and lost 15 games to illness and injury, meaning he spent nearly half the year in the press box. When dressed, he delivered career-average production on a per-game basis, notching six goals and five assists for 11 points. He did so in reduced ice time, averaging closer to 12:30 per game, as his role as a penalty killer in Columbus was stripped entirely from him with the Blues.<\/p>\n

This season, Texier\u2019s ice time has been slashed further to 10:15 per game. He\u2019s only made eight out of 20 possible appearances, on track to finish with a similar workload to last season. Skating most commonly in fourth-line deployment with\u00a0Nick Bjugstad<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Nathan Walker<\/a><\/strong>, he\u2019s logged one assist and nine hits. Perhaps more importantly, his chance generation is way down. He averaged 1.61 shots on goal per game last year \u2013 even more than he managed during his breakout year in Columbus \u2013 but that figure has nearly halved to 0.88 in 2025-26.<\/p>\n

A contract termination would allow Texier to be uninhibited by his above-market-value $2.1MM cap hit as he looks for a new home. Still, he would be walking away from roughly 75% of his identical base salary for this season to do so. Whether he desires to remain in the NHL also remains to be seen. He\u2019s made a move back to Europe before to be closer to his family in France, asking the Blue Jackets to spend the 2022-23 season on loan to Switzerland\u2019s ZSC Lions, which they granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blues winger\u00a0Alexandre Texier\u00a0has considered asking for a contract termination to become an unrestricted free agent, reports Elliotte Friedman…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[186512,293,62,2996,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-392449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alexandre-texier","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-st-louis-blues","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115582630987207653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}