I'd rather keep the picks (or use them on something else) and keep Neighbours and sign a UFA LD.

Maybe boston bites on that, but no one else does.

You can’t sign a D if you don’t move out money. My dream would be moving out Krug, Scandella, Leddy and Bortz. Then sign Graves. But that likely won’t happen. Armstrong has a lot of work to do on this d core.

Imagine this:
Graves-Faulk
Chychrun-Parayko
Rosen-Perunovich
Tucker

I've seen that Detroit trade on here before and it's still no good for Detroit.

Chychrun value is his cheap contract next 2.5 years, it makes no sense for a non contender to acquire him

Wings pass, have no roon on left side for krug and this trade makes 0 sense for them

Might be NHL 23 thinking but after moving out Barbashev and maybe a D for good returns, trading for Chychrun and Meier would be a good thing for STL. A good d portion of the core is locked up long term and those 2 would keep them highly competitive.

I’ll admit I don’t watch the Blues but this feels like a bit of a fluke down season more than the turn to a rebuild.

Wings not taking on contracts for older players that have that much term.

Just going to throw out there that the last time Blues missed the playoffs they won the Cup the year after a big trade (ROR). Just saying.