Équipe: 2020-21 Blues de St-Louis

Date de création initiale: 17 déc. 2020

Publié: 17 déc. 2020

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

THE TRADE:

Blues take on one million in extra cap and get the better player in the trade to add scoring in the top six while Tarasenko is recovering and just in general to make their team better when he's back. Also clears a roster spot for Kyrou to have even when we're at full strength.

Vegas gets under the cap and can get the goal scoring that they're losing in Marchessault back in the aggregate (Bozak+Sanford is about 20/25 goals, so Marchessault-ish). They also get, like, a real center with NHL experience to backup Glass and a young-ish RFA winger with top six potential but more likely just a very good third liner. Golden Knights fans should remember Sanford, It's not too many times you get the chance to acquire a guy who scored four goals on you (no we do not need to look up which team won that game).

Vegas gives up the later second pick they have stashed away because who else is giving you useful assets and solving your cap problem at the same time? The answer is no one else, it's not my choice, don't be mad at me!

I'm not married to the lines, Tarasenko will be out to start and lines always shift around throughout the season anyway, but I think this works.

I used Evolving-Hockey's contract projection tool for Dunn's contract (rounded the number but whatever).


SEATTLE PROTECTED LIST:
O'Reilly
Tarasenko
Schenn
Thomas
Kyrou
Marchessault
Schwartz

Dunn
Parayko
Krug

Binnington

People will want me to protect Perron and like I know he's been good (an all star!) but he'll be 33 when this draft rolls around and everyone on that forward list I think is either a better player or will be a better player long-term. We'll 100% re-sign him the next year if he's picked off for expansion just like last time so who cares? I don't think Seattle takes him regardless of if he's exposed or not anyway.

May have to move one other guy next offseason but the combination of Gunnarsson's contract + Bozak's retained salary + Seattle picking someone off the roster should give us juuuust enough space to re-sign Binnington/Schwartz/Thomas provided that no one besides Thomas gets a significant raise (and Thomas is the only one who should get much of a raise anyway, especially if Schwartz is on a long-term deal).