The Dodgers (40-23) host the Angels (24-39) for a three-game series starting Friday night.
Roki Sasaki (3-3, 4.59 ERA, 1.35 WHIP) starts the series opener for the Dodgers.
Left-hander Reid Detmers (2-5, 4.63 ERA, 1.18 WHIP) gets the ball for the Angels.
It is Friday night.
The Orioles rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the sixth inning to turn the game around into a laugher against the Blue Jays, eventually winning 13-3 in the opener of the series. Adley Rutschman finished the classic triple shy of the cycle while driving in five runs (is he back?), Coby Mayo hit a massive two-run homer, and Brandon Young was good enough to hang in there and get the win after his team mounted the comeback.
YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE.
Here comes the hard part.
After waiting nervously while Aaron Judge sat out three straight games before being diagnosed with a stress fracture in his rib, the Yankees faced the last-place Red Sox in The Bronx on Friday night — and went out and lost for the third time in four games without their captain, this one 5-3.
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Try it freeThis loss wasn’t all on the offense, as Ryan Weathers was tagged for five earned runs for the third time in his last four starts.
But the Yankees’ chances for a comeback against Boston were certainly diminished without Judge.
“It’s a big presence not to have in our lineup,” Ben Rice said. “It’s definitely gonna hurt us, but all we can do is keep moving forward.”
Facing former Yankee bust Sonny Gray — who brought a career 6.06 ERA at Yankee Stadium into the game — the offense never got going, as hitters No. 3-5 in the lineup went hitless in 11 at-bats.
“I thought for the most part we had quality at-bats,” manager Aaron Boone said. “We had a couple of opportunities to get a big hit.”
Rice gave the Yankees a lead in the first inning with his 18th homer of the season — a solo shot to right.
Asked if he thought he’d be pitched differently without Judge’s protection behind him, Rice said, “It’s not for me to say. We’ll see what happens. All I can control is the pitches I swing at and don’t swing at.”
But Weathers faltered in the second, loading the bases with one out.
Boston tied the game on a Wilyer Abreu grounder to short.
Willson Contreras followed with a chopper in front of the plate that went for an infield single to score Jarren Duran and give the Red Sox a 2-1 lead.
They added to it in the fourth, as Weathers gave up a one-out homer to Andruw Monasterio to make it 3-1.
Weathers said he’s been unhappy with his four-seam fastball and that one ended up in the seats.
The Yankees got a run back in the bottom of the inning on Spencer Jones’ double down the right field line that drove in Jazz Chisholm Jr.
But Weathers’ long-ball problems continued in the fifth, as Contreras hit a two-run shot into the second deck in left for a 5-2 lead.
He’s given up seven homers in his last four outings.
A Trent Grisham blast to right with two outs in the fifth got the Yankees back to within two runs.
They were on the verge of getting back in the game in the seventh, with Ryan McMahon on first and Rice facing lefty Danny Coulombe.
Rice got the count full, with lefty-killing Paul Goldschmidt on deck, but Rice whiffed to end the inning.
In the ninth, against another disappointing ex-Yankee, Aroldis Chapman, the Yankees got a leadoff walk from Max Schuemann, pinch hitting for Jones.
Anthony Volpe struck out looking on three pitches and Amed Rosario, pinch hitting for McMahon, also walked on four pitches.
Then came their third pinch hitter of the inning, José Caballero for Austin Wells.
With runners on first and second and one out, Caballero popped out to right and Grisham grounded out and the Yankees dropped their first game of the year to Boston after sweeping three at Fenway Park in April.
On the morning of Wednesday, May 20, San Francisco Giants first baseman Bryce Eldridge had a slash line of .143/.226/.250, with only one extra-base hit in nine games. He wasn’t playing every day, looked to be pressing at the plate, and was blocked by stronger hitters Rafael Devers and Casey Schmitt.
That’s when Mike Krukow went on KNBR and declared that Eldridge should go down to Triple-A.
Krukow sounded like a hater, stopping just shy of telling Eldridge to “grab some Rivercats pine, meat.” He wasn’t being malicious, and it’s not like the Giants don’t have a recent history of promoting prospects with limited minor-league experience. Dearly departed catcher Patrick Bailey got only 60 plate appearances each at Double-A Richmond and Triple-A Sacramento. Schmitt played 29 games at Double-A and 36 at Triple-A before the Giants brought him to the big leagues.
Was there an element of “Respect your elders, young fella” and “Get off my lawn infield grass!” to Krukow’s comment? Of course! Krukow is 74 years old. He likely remembers how annoying Will Clark was to hang out with 40 years ago.
Perhaps fired up by the criticism, Eldridge hit a double that afternoon. Two games later, he went 2-for-3 with a walk. In a three-game series at Coors Field, Eldridge was 6-for-11 with two walks, a homer, and four doubles. He went 2-for-5 Friday, continuing his eight-game hit streak and scoring two runs, and his slash line now stands at 293/.372/.467. Since Krukow’s comments, Eldridge is hitting .383 and slugging .596, with six walks and 10 Ks.
He’s also wearing out pitchers. Since May 23, Eldridge is seeing 4.57 pitches per plate appearance, fourth-most in the league. He’s also regularly lining balls off of opposing pitchers, leading to infield hits and bruises, with Eldridge’s liner off Grant Anderson’s forearm knocking him out of Thursday’s game.
Thankfully, Eldridge has not struck back at another pitcher named Mike Krukow, though we are fairly sure that the 21-year-old slugger looks plenty ready to him now. The Giants offense is red-hot, scoring 30 runs in their last two games.
But if they start to cool off, manager Tony Vitello can fire up his team by playing the KNBR card. We suggest going on the station and find out what Larry Krueger thinks about ethnic differences as it pertains to plate discipline.
The Rays are in Miami to open their annual Citrus Series against the Marlins. Drew Rasmussen is on the bump against Marlins starter Ryan Gusto.
Junior Caminero got things going in the top of the first with a one-out double to right, and Jonathan Aranda drew a walk to put two runners on for Yandy Diaz. Diaz grounded out, but moved both runners into scoring position for Richie Palacios to try and bring them home.
Richie delivered, scoring both runners on a line drive to right. Marlins right fielder Owen Cassie misplayed the ball, and Palacios slid into third with a two-RBI triple. Two pitches later, Palacios scored on a Ryan Vilade single to right field, making it 3-0 Rays. Cedric Mullins grounded out to end the inning.
Rasmussen took the mound in the bottom of the first, and set the Marlins down quickly, needing only five pitches to move this game into the second.
The Rays weren’t able to replicate their first inning, but Ras kept the Marlins quiet in the second, and did so again in the bottom of the third, striking out four between those two frames. Tyler Phillips entered for the Marlins in the top of the third to relieve Ryan Gusto. Chandler Simpson was replaced in the third with a discomfort in his left thumb, with Victor Mesa Jr. replacing him in right field.
Fast forwarding to the top of the fifth, Junior added to his double total on the night, hitting another one to left field this time. Jonathan Aranda stepped up next, reaching for a slider and poking it into center field to bring Caminero home, extending the lead to 4-0 and tallying his 44th RBI on the season.
Yandy followed the Aranda hit with a single, deflecting off Tyler Phillips’ foot. He was checked out by the team’s training staff, but stayed in the game and ultimately worked his way out of the jam in the top of the fifth.
Ras worked another 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the fifth, recording his seventh strikeout in the process. Cedric Mullins led off the bottom of the sixth, with Phillips staying in for another inning on the mound for Miami. Mullins swung at the fourth pitch he saw, an 87mph splitter, and he sent it 397 feet over the right field wall, extending the lead to 5-0.
Rasmussen pitched another shutdown inning in the bottom of the sixth, recording his eighth strikeout of the game in the process.
Junior led off the top of the seventh and draw a walk for his fourth time reaching base on the night. Yandy hit a one-out single to move Junior up to second, and with two outs in the inning, Ryan Vilade hit a single to bring Caminero home, extending the lead to 6-0 and putting two runners on for Cedric Mullins. Mullins reached on a catchers interference, and with the bases loaded, Nick Fortes stepped up to face new pitcher William Kempner.
Kempner was able to get the Marlins out of the jam, so the lead stayed at six for Rasmussen to manage. Ras needed 13 pitches to continue the one-hitter and set down the heart of the Miami lineup.
Cam Booser was brought in to pitch the bottom of the eighth, ending Ras’ 87 pitch, one-hit night. Ras struck out nine with no walks, lowering his ERA to an even 3.00, on the season.
Booser’s eighth inning was nearly perfect, recording three strikeouts but walking Jakob Marsee in the process. Yandy Diaz led off the top of the ninth with a single off Tyler Zuber, and Richie Palacios followed that up with a walk, but neither runner made it home after the next three hitters were set down by Zuber.
Cole Sulser entered for the bottom of the ninth, and did exactly what he needed to do — recording a strikeout of Kyle Stowers to end it.
Behind a monster outing from Drew Rasmussen, the Rays and their six-run performance shut out the Marlins to open the Citrus Series. Shane McClanahan will take the mound tomorrow in Miami against a Marlins starter to be determined, first pitch scheduled for 4:10pm.
The San Antonio Spurs are in a must win situation in Game 2 of the 2026 NBA Finals after blowing a 14-point lead in their Game 1 loss. The Spurs responded by turning up the ball pressure in the first half of Game 2, and it caused one Knicks player loose his cool enough for a flagrant foul.
New York forward Josh Hart was called for a flagrant-1 with under six minutes left in the second quarter when he grabbed Devin Vassell’s leg as the Spurs wing tried to race off with a loose ball. Vassell was pressuring Hart as he attempted to bring the ball across halfcourt, and he poked it free just before the 8-second rule could have been called. Vassell had a beat on the ball, but Hart grabbed his ankle to trip him before he could get a breakaway layup.
The refs reviewed the play, and determined it should be a flagrant-1 for Hart. Watch the play here:
That sure looks “unnecessary contact” to me. The Spurs received two free throws and the ball.
Prior to the start of the team’s series against the Padres, Carlos Mendoza announced that Francisco Alvarez Will be catching back-to-back games tonight and tomorrow for the Syracuse Mets. If all goes well, he will likely return at some point during the team’s next homestand next week.
This is, quite frankly, a freakish recovery for Alvarez, who has made a habit of beating the projected return date on injuries by several days, if not weeks. This represents the latter, as he was expected to miss six-to-eight weeks with his meniscus tear in his right knee and could be back in just under four. Alvarez recently attributed his quick recovery from injuries to being a normal human “with a different mindset” and really, who could argue with that?
Alvarez has already had a noteworthy rehab stint, doubling in his first two at-bats and finishing his first game on June 2 by going 2-for-3 with a run batted in. He went hitless in his second game on June 4, which included three strikeouts, but he caught seven innings and threw out a runner trying to steal second. The last hurdle appears to be catching back-to-back games, at which point the team will re-evaluate and determine whether he’s cleared to return to the majors.
Prior to his injury, Alvarez was slashing .241/.317/.393 with four homers, a 104 wRC+, and a 0.5 fWAR in 37 games played. He has been struggling as of late, however, hitting just .214/.250/.286 while being held without a homer and posting a 51 wRC+ in 17 games since April 21. In his absence, Luis Torrens has assumed the bulk of the team’s catching duties, hitting .231/.298/.308 with a 78 wRC+ in 18 games while continuing to excel behind the plate, especially with respect to throwing out would-be base stealers.
After a season outside of an NHL front office, former San Jose Sharks defenseman and Hockey Hall of Famer Rob Blake has joined the Nashville Predators organization.
Blake, who is mainly remembered for his 28 total years as a player and an executive for the Los Angeles Kings, was announced as the Predators' Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations on Friday. Blake joins the Predators' newly appointed General Manager and President of Hockey Operations, Chris MacFarland who spent the last four season as the General Manager of the Colorado Avalanche under Joe Sakic.
Blake previously served as the VP of Hockey Operations and the General Manger of the Los Angeles Kings after originally joining the organization as a Director of Player Personnel for the 2011-12 season. He parted ways with the Kings following the 2024-25 season and was replaced by Ken Holland.
As a player, Blake was a long-time captain for the Kings, but he ended his career as the captain of the Sharks. He spent two seasons in teal, appearing in 143 games and picking up 75 points. He then retired following the 2009-10 season.
Am I the Willson Contreras whisperer? Many are saying it’s true. Due to a bug/feature in the schedule I haven’t have a game recap since mid-May, when the headline was “Where there’s a Willson, there’s a way, son.” Deja vu? Contreras led the way again tonight, in swatting Yankees pitchers:
And coolers of delicious, cold crisp liquids on a balmy Big Apple nite:
Not to be outdone, Andruw Monasterio hit his first donger of the year which helped the Sox pull one out behind Sonny Gray, who worked into the 7th and gave up two solo homers and a double but got the W once Aroldis Chapman closed the door on the two-on, one-out situation into which he was put by Aroldis Chapman. I will admit it was tough to follow the game while watching Thor: Ragnarok but it was made easier by the fact I’ve seen it a million times but I promised my son (almost 9) that we’d watch tonight and I forgot I had traded for the game because of Patriots Day until I was reminded like three hours before. Rules are rules.
But a note about the Yankees from down in enemy territory. It’s sorta obvious the Knicks have subsumed them right now, especially with Aaron Judge’s injury, but they’re the one team that always had the power to do so. As much as Yankees fans are a majority bloc here, there are more Mets fans here than there are of hometown fans in most league cities. But the Knicks are the only game in town (the Nets are a fake idea that helps Barclays Center charge mortgages for 19.2-oz cans of Brooklyn Lager). Is it worth it? I’m not a Celtics crazy by any means, so the answer is a plain yes. This is fun. The Yankees cannot be fun by definition. You might say we won this one before the game even began. Thanks to Willson, we did it afterward too.
The Yankees had chances, but failed to capitalize as they dropped the first game of the series against the Boston Red Sox, 5-3, on Friday night in The Bronx.
New York (37-26) went 1-for-6 with RISP and left seven men on base. Boston (27-35) didn't tally a hit in the last four innings.
- SpencerJones, called up with Aaron Judge set for a long stint on the IL, singled up the middle in his first trip to the plate before he notched an RBI double, bouncing a 3-0 offering down the first baseline in the fourth for the Yankees' lone hit with a runner in scoring position on the night. The RF, who was 4-for-24 during his first stint in the big leagues, got his first career three-hit game with a two-out single in the sixth.
- Ben Rice put the Yanks up 1-0 in the first, taking a hanging Sonny Gray curveball 377 feet to right. It was Rice's 18th homer and 45th RBI of the year. He added a smashed single to right and a walk, but struck out swinging to end the seventh, chasing ball four against lefty Danny Coulombe. He finished 2-for-3 with a walk.
- Trent Grisham, who grounded out to second his first two times up, got a sweeper in the happy zone and clocked it 424 feet into the second deck in right (108.3 mph off the bat) for a solo shot. Grisham has been swinging a better bat of late; he entered the game 15 for his last 43 (.349) with a .917 OPS. With two on and two out in the bottom of the ninth, he grounded out to first to finish 1-for-5.
- Ryan Weathers got a scare when Red Sox leadoff man Jarren Duran clubbed the game's first pitch to the warning track in left for a long out. After the six-pitch clean first, the left-hander followed with a 10-pitch second, getting around a one-out single.
Weathers was in a spot of bother with one out in the third when Connor Wong flipped a single into left, Duran singled into right on a ball that ticked off Paul Goldschmidt’s glove at first, and he walked Ceddanne Rafaela on four pitches. The righty traded a run for an out on a slow roller to short, but allowed Boston to go ahead on a WillsonContreras check-swing infield hit as the pitcher’s throw to first pulled Goldschmidt off the bag.
After picking up his second strikeout of the night, Andruw Monasterio absolutely smoked a 3-2 Weathers fastball 408 feet into left field for a solo homer in the fourth. And after getting two quick outs in the fifth, a bouncing ball just eluded Jazz Chisholm Jr. in shallow right and Weathers paid the price when Contreras clobbered a changeup at the bottom of the zone 419 feet that just stayed fair around the left-field foul pole to give the visitors a 5-2 edge.
Weathers finished his night with a 1-2-3 sixth, his final line: 6 innings, five runs on seven hits and a walk with four strikeouts on 93 pitches (57 strikes).
- Anthony Volpe, who entered the game with two hits in his last 18 at-bats, took a cutter the other way for a single to put to aboard with one out in the second. He had a bit of bad luck to end the fourth, when his liner up the middle was snared by Monasterio, who doubled Jones off second. Volpe had more bad luck in the sixth, smashing a liner (104.8 mph) to center to end the inning. He finished 1-for-4, with a strikeout looking at three straight fastballs (the last of which went right down the middle) in the ninth.
- The lack of production from the Yanks’ third baseman and catchers was a topic of conversation before the game, and it came to be in the second as Ryan McMahon and Austin Wells failed to come through with runners on first and second, both with lazy flies to left.
McMahon would grab a basehit to right to start the seventh, finishing the day 1-for-3.
Wells, who entered the game hitless in his last 10 at-bats, went 0-for-3 with a strikeout swinging.
- Chisholm, who reached on a fielder’s choice his second time up, stole his 16th base of the season and came around to score two pitches later. He finished 0-for-4 with a strikeout.
- Cody Bellinger went 0-for-3 with a strikeout and a walk.
- Goldschmidt was hitless in four at-bats, including an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play in the third.
- Out of the Yanks’ bullpen: Paul Blackburn got six straight outs, including two strikeouts in the eighth. Camilo Doval made it four consecutive 1-2-3 innings for Yankee pitchers with two strikeouts in the ninth.
- In the bottom of the ninth, Max Schuemann walked on four pitches as a pinch-hitter for Jones to lead off the ninth against Aroldis Chapman,before Amed Rosario (as a pinch hitter for McMahon) walked on four pitches with one out. José Caballero (pinch-hitting for Wells) ended that run when he flied out to right with the tying run on base.
Ben Rice gets the Yankees on the board early! pic.twitter.com/Tqp1oAJfr0
— SNY Yankees (@snyyankees) June 5, 2026
Spencer Jones sends Jazz Chisholm Jr. home on an RBI double pic.twitter.com/hwokCZCGse
— SNY Yankees (@snyyankees) June 6, 2026
Trent Grisham homers to make it a two-run game pic.twitter.com/1iKytF5kpI
— SNY Yankees (@snyyankees) June 6, 2026
Spencer Jones is 3-3 tonight! pic.twitter.com/uyzct3tk8L
— SNY Yankees (@snyyankees) June 6, 2026
The series continues on Saturday night with a 7:35 p.m. first pitch.
Will Warren (3.22 ERA, 1.197 WHIP in 64.1 innings) climbs the hill for the Yanks against lefty Ranger Suarez (3.38 ERA and 1.159 WHIP in 58.2 innings).
The traveling version of the Knicks’ celebrity row returned to Frost Bank Center on Friday.
Timothée Chalamet, Ben Stiller, Billy Baldwin, Fat Joe, Walt “Clyde” Frazier and Allan Houston were all in attendance, watching the Knicks take a 2-0 series lead with a wild 105-104 win over the Spurs in the NBA Finals in San Antonio.
Stiller, wearing a Knicks shirt and a black jacket, was spotted recording warmups with his phone — videos that the actor, director and producer has become known for during the postseason run — near the baseline, while Chalamet donned customized Chrome Hearts jeans that featured blue and orange.
Chalamet and Stiller, especially, have become staples at Knicks games during recent postseason runs and their current sprint to the NBA Finals — which has been fueled by 12 consecutive wins entering Game 2 in San Antonio.
Rapper Fat Joe, who had a funny moment with “Inside the NBA” during the program’s pregame show, was also riding high in San Antonio.
Former Spurs point guard Chris Paul and big man David Robinson were also in attendance.
The Knicks nearly blew a late lead in the fourth quarter, but held on to take Game 2 in a thriller. Plenty of more A-listers should be on hand when the series shifts to Madison Square Garden for the Knicks’ first NBA Finals home game since 1999.
On June 8, 2018 — almost eight years ago to the day — the buzzer rang at Quicken Loans Arena. By that point, the stars of the game were all on the sidelines, getting ready for what would come next. Nearly three minutes of action had eclipsed since Steve Kerr sent Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, and Andre Iguodala to the bench, replacing them with Nick Young, Pat McCaw, Jordan Bell, Kevon Looney, and Zaza Pachulia. More than four minutes had passed since Ty Lue had pulled LeBron James off the court following his final stint as a Cleveland Cavalier.
The garbage time minute eaters battled it out until the buzzer sounded, concluding a dominant 108-85 win for the Warriors, and an even more dominant sweep in the NBA Finals.
Golden State was on top of the world, having won their third championship in four seasons and, most impressively, their second in a row.
They lost the crown the next year against the Toronto Raptors. A year later, James returned to the finals and this time emerged victorious, now a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. Giannis Antetokounmpo, years before discontent with the Milwaukee Bucks would brew, hoisted the trophy in 2021, and then the Warriors snuck back in for a surprise revival in 2022. In 2023 it was the Denver Nuggets, and in 2024 the Boston Celtics.
It felt like something changed when the Oklahoma City Thunder won it all in 2025, and then opened this season by winning 24 of their first 25 games. For the first time since those world-beating Golden State teams, the NBA had a the potential for a dynasty. The Thunder were young, elite on both sides of the court, had immeasurable chemistry, were loaded with stars who played their role, and, in perhaps the most apt comparison to the Dubs, had a magical point guard who was winning MVPs and laying a solid argument for the claim of best player on the planet.
After those first 25 games of the 2025-26 season, many started anointing the dynasty in Oklahoma. The conversation shifted away from if the Thunder could repeat, and into whether or not they would break Golden State’s single-season record of 73 wins along the way. It was morbidly humorous that everyone crowning the Thunder before the calendar flipped to 2026 apparently forgot what happened to the Dubs in that famous and infamous season one decade ago.
Ultimately, Oklahoma City suffered a similar fate. Just as the Warriors did in 2016, the Thunder dealt with injuries to a few key players, and lost in a Game 7 to one of the most unique, talented, and athletically alarming players in NBA history.
And so we get a new champion. As I write this, the San Antonio Spurs are in the midst of an attempt to even up the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks, who stole Game 1 on Wednesday. We don’t know who will win the series, but we do know that it will give the league remarkable parity: eight different champions over the last eight years, with only three teams (the Warriors, Celtics, and Miami Heat), even making multiple Finals appearances during that time.
That means we’ll have to wait until 2027, at the very earliest, to see the first repeat champion since the Warriors in 2018.
Repeat champions are, it goes without saying, special. And they are a singular entity that go down in basketball lore. The teams who have repeated since 1990 are teams that every basketball fan can identify in seconds: Curry and Durant’s Warriors; the Heatles; Kobe’s last push with Pau; Kobe and Shaq’s threepeat; Jordan’s pair of threepeats; and Hakeem’s pair while MJ was tightening his batting gloves.
It will happen again in the NBA, and maybe even soon. The Thunder with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Spurs with Victor Wembanyama both look prepared to play at the highest level for the better part of the next decade. But then again, they do exactly as they did this year: play each other so well, that each side keeps the other from ever truly dominating. I expect both of those teams to win championships in the next few years, and probably even multiple. But will they achieve NBA history with the hardest thing in sports, a repeat? Will the Knicks, or anyone else?
That will be a storyline heading into next season, and probably into the next season as well. The Warriors may no longer be championship favorites, and their dynasty may be snuggly closed, but for a while longer they get to hold onto a title that certainly means something to those in the league: they’re the last team to repeat as champions.
Early today, Colorado Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer provided an update on player injuries.
In addition, the Rockies announced prior to the start of the game that Tanner Gordon had been placed on the 15-day IL with a right hip impingement.
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Former San Jose Sharks goaltender Georgii Romanov has earned himself another NHL contract, as he signed a two-year contract extension with the St. Louis Blues on Friday.
Romanov was originally signed by the Sharks as an undrafted free agent in May of 2023. He spent two seasons with the Sharks organization, although the majority of his time was with their American Hockey League affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda.
Across two seasons, Romanov took the crease for 50 games with the Barracuda. During that time, he had a record of 20-15-13 while he also recorded a .904 save percentage and a 3.12 goals against average.
Romanov was much less effective at the NHL level as in 10 games for the Sharks, he had a save percentage of .888 and a 3.53 goals against average while going 0-6-0.
Romanov departed the Sharks organization following the 2024-25 season after the team opted not to extend him a qualifying offer to retain his signing rights. As a result, he signed a one-year contract with the Blues that summer.
During the 2025-26 season, Romanov spent his entire campaign with the Blues' AHL affiliate, the Springfield Thunderbirds. The 26-year-old netminder played 28 regular season games for the Thunderbirds, recording a 9-12-4 record, a 3.29 goals against average, and a .896 save percentage. He turned his game up a notch in the playoffs though, going 7-4-0 with a 1.84 goals against average and a .939 save percentage.
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