Beginning next season, the city of St. Louis will have a new longest-tenured professional athlete with the news that pending unrestricted free agent Barret Jackman will not be re-signed, according to Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The St. Louis Blues told the 17th pick of the 1999 NHL Draft that they would be going in a “different direction,” a.k.a. “younger” beginning next season. The 34-year old Jackman played 803 games over 13 seasons with St. Louis, compiling 28 goals and 181 points and winning the Calder Trophy in 2003, beating out Rick Nash and Henrik Zetterberg.