Équipe: 2023-24 Blues de St-Louis

Date de création initiale: 15 juin 2023

Publié: 15 juin 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Overall thoughts after putting this mess together:

Army has some work to do. I think in order to get rid of contracts on the defense, he will need to take some bad contracts back in return. The hope is to add draft picks to cut the duration of the contracts down but the money is relatively the same for next season.
Perunovich needs a shot to prove himself.
Suter could be an underrated signing with potential to move up the lineup. Just not sure on what kind of contract he will get. The athletic player card has him as a 3mil player but some term could help bring it down... maybe. But Suter adds more experience to let Alexandrov play more meaningful minutes in the minors. Same with Bolduc, as giving him more minutes in the minors would be better than 10-12 a night with the big club. If Suter isn't signed, no big deal. Just slot Alexandrov back in

Keep Scandella instead of buying out just in case of any injuries on the back end. Same with Bortz.

Saw on the athletic a mock trade between Detroit and Montreal (5 and 31 for 9 and 17). Could this value be similar? Perhaps. May need to add a later pick for the Blues to make it happen

Could most of these trades happen? More than likely not, but it's worth a shot. This team could be competitive next year even with the exact same team, just need a rebound from a few players (looking at you blue line and Binner).

Closing thoughts: if the Blues suck again next year, they have plenty of pieces on one year contracts they can send out as rentals with salary retention to get more pieces back to help accelerate the retool/rebuild. That was the thought of bringing in Yama at least. A one year prove it type of deal to see what he truly is. If he doesn't pan out, no QO and let him walk. Army will have some cap room to take him in as long as he can shed one or two d-man contracts

Would love to keep all three first round picks and replenish the prospect pool with high end talent, but Army has already stated he is looking to move them if the players or situation makes sense.

Also Mokumboi, you'll probably hate this entire concept but I think it's either something like this or keeping essentially the same team as last year. Hope this at least gets a little chuckle out of you

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