Well, that's a rather disingenuous title. As for the trade, you could remove Faulk and Binnington and the retention, and the Blues still say hell naw. In fact, they probably pass if you remove Buch, as well.

Given us back all of our guys huh?

Would signal a for sure rebuild. Could see where it'd be beneficial, but would like Wallinder or Johnsson added as we need someone in that age range on defense if we're going to commit to a full rebuild. I doubt we will, Armstrong has signaled he wont.

Detroit gives up two 1sts to completely and utterly **** their salary cap.

Genius.

I mean they're getting very clear upgrades, and dumping pretty useless cap. You can't acquire prospects forever and hope they develop into roles they aren't suited for.

1. Buying as soon as you're breaking the playoff bubble has certainly worked out for Ottawa and New Jersey.

2. I never commented on the quality of the players they were getting in return.

3. Kane is a PPG player since returning... He's not signing for $5M/year. That's a fantasy.

4. On the opposite side of the spectrum from fantasy, signing Seider and Raymond to two year deals is flat out stupidity.

So, back to my point... Detroit trades two 1sts to utterly **** their cap structure.

They've been on the bubble for a while. I think this would be overboard sure. But it's not a bad premise to try and plug a hole with an established player.

I think it's a little too early to point at New Jersey for that. Ottawa's issue is probably rooted in having too many young guys up front.

19-20 they were the worst team in the league by 20+ points.
20-21 they were a bottom five team.
21-22 they were bottom 10 and 26 points out of a playoff spot.
22-23 they were bottom 10 and 12 points out of a playoff spot.

They have absolutely not been on the bubble for awhile lol. They were barely on the bubble at the TDL last year and were exposed as clearly not being ready when Ottawa clowned them around twice in the week leading up to the deadline.

Smart move is to lock Seider and Raymond into 8 year deals and re-sign Kane if he's willing to stay. That leaves little room to make other additions from outside the organization.

This is not a rebuild, it's a stick-up. There's exactly nothing beneficial to the Blues here. At all. It's gruesome asset mismanagement. We'd actually lose cap space for next season. Like I said, even If there was nothing going to Detroit, it's still not worth it for the Blues.

The Blues aren’t taking back 4 bad contracts and giving up two of their best players for 2 late round firsts