Équipe: 2023-24 Blues de St-Louis

Date de création initiale: 5 mars 2024

Publié: 5 mars 2024

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

St.Louis goes into sell-mode.

The Hayes trade:
The Rangers get bottom 6 center upgrades and dumping Goodrows terrible contract but gives up a couple of promising prospects and picks doing so.
St.Louis adds a 2nd and (a future) 3rd round pick + get some prospects with NHL-upside in Chmelar, Robertsson and Sykora. The Blues are probably retooling for another 2/3 seasons before coming competitive again, the Goodrow contract expires when, hopefully, our next window of opportunity opens. Goodrow's final year, after paying his signing bonus, his actual salary is a lot lower than his caphit which puts him in a niche where he might be easy to trade to a team that needs to hit the minimal caphit but where the owner wants to pay as little as possible (for reference, see the Arizona/Ottawa Derek Stepan trade).

After these trades the team is in 'perfect shape' to go for a top-10 overall pick this season.

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