Barbashev

yeah but if you click long term outlook your boned next summer
20m to sign Pietrangelo , Schenn , Dunn, Fabbri ,Blais and Edmundson .
that's assuming you dont offer Bouwmeester another deal
its already way to tight cap wise , you'd have to walk away from Schenn after all you paid to get him
just to have a chance in hell at making the cap work .

STL has players that can come up and replace a Barbashev of Sunqvist but no one to replace a Pietrangelo or Schenn while hoping to remain a contender

Petro gets 9, schenn gets 7, dunn gets 4, fabbri and blais get 1, and we have bouw coming off the books

Blais and Fabbri don't sign for more than a Million a piece. Dunn should make a lot of money, but Edmundson if he proves he isn't worth it again this year he is out the door so it's more like 20M to sign Schenn, Pietrangelo, Dunn tbh. Considering Bortuzzo might already be out the door with Reinke coming up. You can also factor in that Steen, Bozak, and Perron could be guys that go the way side. I would assume Blues let Perron go in Expansion Draft again unless they pay to get rid of Bozak or Steen. It's most likely Steen that gets offloaded here soon, and Bozak as well could be offloaded as well with how well Sunqvist has done and Thomas most likely being 2C Bozak and Schenn most likely can be traded as well. Schenn wants to sign, but the likeliness of him being able to play where he wants to play (Center 2C most likely) is probably not in the books of what Berube wants as he is comfortable inserting Robert Thomas there.

Pietrangelo wants about 8M, Schenn wants around 6-7.5, Dunn gets around 5.5M (same deal as Parayko) unless we do a bridge deal which I highly doubt at this point I think we lock him up long-term. Edmundson probably gets traded at Deadline, and since he is a Restricted Free Agent he could go for a good amount. Bozak is now a redundant player. Bozak and Steen are my preference on offloading getting Kostin Kyrou in there and keeping Schenn, but the likeliness is not really there imo. So we aren't really that big on cap right now. Steen should be easier to move based on him being a 1-Year Rental rather than the 3-Year or now 2-Years. It all depends on how Armstrong wants to set his team up. We aren't really boned we have Kyrou, and Kostin coming up so I am sure they will be productive.

Petro gets 8, he isn't worth 9M according to HockeyViz, Colton Parayko is actually the better Defenseman of the 2. I wouldn't mind offloading Pietrangelo for another Defenseman preferably Left Handed.

Ik parayko>, but petro being being tenured and the captain will get at least 8.5