Blues

Équipe: 2023-24 Blues de St-Louis

Date de création initiale: 14 juin 2023

Publié: 14 juin 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Overall Vision - Try to rebalance the defense while minimizing the growing pains.

Disclaimer - Tried not exploring draft pick trades as I feel like that is where the biggest discrepancy in value around here is.

Trade with Pittsburgh:
Pros for St. Louis: Opens room for Perunovich
Better allocates cap space during transitional phase.
Fills middle 6 center hole, allowing Buch/Kapanen to stay on wing.

Cons for St. Louis: High probability of neutering powerplay
Granlund is a less productive player than Krug in terms of offensive output.
Opens revolving door of call up defenseman if/when Perunovich gets injured.
Retention for 4 years to balance out the cap for each team.

Pros for Pittsburgh: Adds high-end PP weapon.
Allows more flexibility for bottom 6 changes.
Cap Neutral move with Granlund without dumping.
Adds guy with playoff experience to the backend.
If Crosby era ends with current contract - Retention on Krug for 2 years at a 2.75m cap hit could return asset.

Cons for Pittsburgh: Krug's term is longer than Granlund, still not a fantastic contract.
Krug is injured frequently.
May still need to add defensive minded player to backend and will need to redo bottom 6.

Seattle trade: Very meaningless, just put Bortuzzo in a better situation. Good PK depth. Picked Seattle due to Bortuzzo's friendship with Schwartz. Worst case scenario, Bortuzzo is a healthy scratch here or sent down if we need younger guys up.

Ottawa Trade
Pros for St. Louis: Add desperately needed top end LD to slide rest of defense down.
Kyrou is high-risk high-reward player, makes the team play more simple.

Cons for St. Louis - Kyrou is a legitimate offensive weapon. Removal really neuters offense.
Chabot may not be perfect fit if they plan to keep Parayko in a heavy-heavy defensive usage.
Chabot's contract ends when 31. Will need big payday at that point on a 30+ contract.

Pros for Ottawa: Adds highly dynamic offensive threat.
Kyrou has additional 3 years of contract at a very reasonable hit for production.
Allows for opening to better balance out pairs. Higher-opportunity for Sanderson.

Cons for Ottawa: Removal of Chabot. Will need to add top 4 D.
Kyrou is high-risk, high-reward. May be one more year of simplifying game if needed.

Overall thoughts of Ottawa - STL trade. With Debrincat looking to be moved. Assuming corresponding move of Debrincat for a RD this could be extremely beneficial for both teams. Ottawa was willing to part with a very high draft pick to bring in Debrincat. Kyrou has a bit more ability to be a two-way player with improved compete level. Regardless, Ottawa doesn't seem scared to add a high-end offensive weapon at the cost of defensive ability on wing.

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