Longtime NHL defender Torey Krug is not expected to play in the league again due to a serious ankle injury, St. Louis Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said Wednesday.
Krug last played in an NHL game in 2024, and missed the current season with this major ankle ailment.
Krug is best known for his long stays with the Blues and the Boston Bruins in his more-than-dozen year professional hockey career.
‘I’m not expecting him to play again,’ Armstrong told reporters. ‘Now, he’s hoping that I’m wrong, I’m hoping that I’m wrong and he’s pushing, but the surgery that he had, it was very, very invasive.’
Krug’s crowning accomplishment of his career was being part of the Bruins team that reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2019. The Bruins lost in seven games to his future team in St. Louis.
Krug made his NHL debut with the Bruins in 2012, staying with the team until 2020, when he signed a seven-year deal with the Blues.
Krug is best known for his stays with the Blues and the Boston Bruins during his NHL career
Krug last played in an NHL game in 2024, and missed the current season with the ankle injury
Krug, 34, frequently was part of his team’s top defense pairing and played a crucial role on the power play, most of the time as his team’s only defenseman on the ice.
During a game in the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals, Krug became the first Bruins player to record four points in a championship-series game.
It was part of a 7-2 victory on his future home ice in St. Louis, when he had one goal and three assists.
The Blues nearly reached the second round of the NHL playoffs without Krug, losing in a Game 7 overtime to the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday.
St. Louis had a two-goal lead with under two minutes left in the game before allowing two markers to the Jets and another in overtime to end its season.
