St Louis says no

Any reason why, Any team can OS Dunn which would cost 1st and a 3rd than add on taking Bozaks contract and Blais for Gauthier and Hajek

Dunn is most likely gonna exercise arbitration so either way Blues still aren’t interesting in trading away a 22 year old defenseman who is better than most and has better advanced stats than Seth Jones, Zach Werenski, Samuel Girard. So yeah Blues won’t be interested in trading Dunn.

Anyone could OS any RFA, you’re right in saying this. Doesn’t happen very often as you need to overpay to get the player without the club matching. If anyone OS Dunn for 5.5M And at your 7yr term... they will match it and thank them/us for the deal. Then moving forward that GM May have a target on his back or others will be hesitant to deal with him. The 1st & 3rd is compensation but not necessarily fair trade value.

Dunn has no arbitration rights.

I also wouldn't be so certain that the Blues wouldn't entertain moving Dunn, regardless of what the advanced stats say.

Yeah but you think we move him for spare parts yeah well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Blues is the CF chumps everyone thinks they are gonna use their best players as cap casualties. Rumors are like assh*les everyone ass one bud but what’s funny is Armstrong isn’t stupid this isn’t JR. Cap Casualties dUnN aNd PaRaYkO because they are the best players so they have to trade them no way around it when Bozak can just as easily be moved and Allen already moved. Dunn is an easy signing teams would have to massively overpay a contract for a team like St.Louis to take Compensation instead. And Blues aren’t having it lmao. Think of him as a cap casualty all you want but Blues aren’t f*cking r*tarded.

Nowhere did I say that they'd move him for spare parts, and I wouldn't take that offer from the OP.

You want to pump his advanced stats? He gets bottom pairing minutes for us and our left side isn't anything special. He's fifth in EV TOI and he doesn't PK. His advanced stats are a result of his usage, putting him in the same sentence as the likes of Seth Jones and Zach Werenski is beyond delusional. "i'M nOt SaYiNg He'S bEtTeR" is no doubt your response, but you're desperately trying to put him in that group. Even in the playoffs, Dunn was sixth in TOI per game for our defenseman. Yeah, he's young and has room to grow... but the left side has had opportunity for him to take and he hasn't been able to earn that trust.

As a Blues fan I don't want to lose Dunn, he's a good player. I'm just not arrogant enough to talk in absolutes about players of his level. If we get offered a mid-first in this draft, with a plus, then Armstrong is unquestionably entertaining that offer. We have some prospect depth at LHD with Mikkola and Perunovich, there are several reasons it could make sense.