How to keep Alex

Team: 2019-20 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 24, 2019

Published: Sep. 24, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Just a shade over 24M to sign;
UFA - Schenn & Pietrangelo (Bouwmeester if they decide too)
RFA - Rabbri, Blais, Dunn and Husso

Projections:
Pietrangelo (say he gets EK/Doughty money) - 11.5M
Schenn - I'd say he falls around O'Reilly 7.5M or under
*don't resign Bouwmeester*

$ Left for RFA - 5M
Dunn - Girard contract of 5M?
Blais, Husso and Fabbri IMO will all probably accept their QO's or get 1-2 years less than 1.5M each..

So it'll be extremely tight and not doable at all unless they trade Allen+Perron like in this example or a higher cap hit ie Bozak/Steen but I believe the more likely to waive NTC is Perron.

Also, I think i'm highballing both Schenn and Pietrangelo + not accounting for cap increase of roughly 2% - give us 83M cap space (1.5M more) likely enables them to sign another 1-2 or all of their RFA's
*can also deal Bortuzzo to clear roughly 1.5M cap if need be but I like him a lot*

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