4:25 PM
- Jeremy Rutherford: Pietrangelo Salary breakdown: $5 million, $5.5, $6.5, $7, $7, $7, $7.5
- Lou Korac: The deal buys the first three years that he would have been UFA eligible at $7 million, $7 million and $7.5 million.
- Andy Strickland: Pietrangelo is traveling to St. Louis tonight and will officially sign the deal tomorrow.
3:14 PM
- Bob McKenzie: The Blues and Alex Pietrangelo agree on a seven-year deal with a $6.5 million salary cap hit.
Pietrangelo was drafted 4th overall by the Blues in the 2008 draft.
- Pierre LeBrun: Pietrangelo gets the same contract as Senators Erik Karlsson, seven-years, $45.5 million.
- Andy Strickland: Deal isn’t officially signed yet. Salary similar across the board, a little under $6.5 million to start and goes a bit above it in the back years of the deal.
- Dan Rosen: Blues GM Doug Armstrong on Pietrangelo: “He is an elite defenseman in this league and will be for years to come.”
- David Perron: “I think Petro just signed. I saw him leave the bank a few mins ago! Congrats! Well deserved!”
