Jimmy Snuggerud: The Blues’ Quiet Weapon and Your Next Dynasty Asset.
The hockey world spent the 2025–26 season obsessing over Matthew Schaefer, Ivan Demidov, and the glamour names at the top of the Calder Trophy race. Meanwhile, Jimmy Snuggerud quietly went out and had one of the most impressive rookie seasons a St. Louis Blue has ever produced…and most fantasy managers barely noticed.
That is precisely the opportunity in front of you right now.
Snuggerud finished his rookie campaign with 21 goals, 30 assists, and 51 points in 70 games, good enough to be named to the 2025–26 NHL All-Rookie Team and finish fifth in Calder Trophy voting. He became just the seventh rookie in Blues franchise history to reach at least 50 points in a season, and the sixth to post at least 20 goals and 30 assists. Those are not depth-player numbers. Those are cornerstone numbers. And the best part? He was just warming up.
After the NHL’s return from the Olympic break, Snuggerud led all rookies with 11 goals, 16 assists, 27 points, and a plus-21 rating, finishing the season playing the best hockey of his life while most of the league had already moved on to playoff coverage. The son of former NHLer Dave Snuggerud, he plays the game with a veteran’s intelligence and a one-timer that makes him a genuine power play weapon — the kind of tool that produces fantasy points in bulk when deployed in the right situation. He shared the rookie lead with five game-winning goals. He was a plus-16 on the season. He did all of it flying completely under the radar.
The Blues are rebuilding, but they are rebuilding faster than anyone expected. St. Louis went 17-5-3 after the Olympic break — the fourth-most wins in the league over that stretch — while allowing just 2.16 goals against per game, the lowest mark in the entire NHL. This is not a team trudging toward the lottery. This is a team trending sharply upward, with Snuggerud right at the centre of it.
For the 2026–27 season, the case for Snuggerud is straightforward: he is locked into a top-six role alongside Robert Thomas, he has established power play time, and he is 22 years old on a rising team with three first-round picks coming into the fold at the draft. A 60-point season is not a projection. It is a reasonable expectation. And at 44% rostered in Yahoo leagues, he is still one of the most undervalued forwards on any dynasty waiver wire in the game.
Go get him before the rest of your league figures it out.
Statistics sourced from NHL.com and the St. Louis Blues official press release, June 12, 2026.