Expectations

Team: 2020-21 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 3, 2019

Published: Dec. 3, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Expectations in the Blues is being able to re-sign Dunn, Pietrangelo, Blais, and I would like to see MacEachern, and Reinke signed as well.

Borgman has not really done much in the realm of being a fit for the Blues as he hasn't really played a game and hasn't done anything for us.

Husso I would look into maybe putting into some sort of deal that gets us maybe draft picks or maybe shedding some cap. I like Colten Ellis better than Husso, but that is just my opinion on that whole thing.

Forward RFAs:
RW Samuel Blais 900K-1.25M 23 y/o
C/LW Jacob De La Rose 750K-900K 24 y/o
LW/RW Mackenzie MacEachern 750K-950K 25 y/o
RW Austin Poganski 700K-800K 23 y/o
C Nolan Stevens 700K-750K 23 y/o

Defenseman RFAs:
Andreas Borgman 700K-750K
Jake Dotchin 700K-750K
Vince Dunn Couple options on this contract in my opinion 5.5M for 5 Years or 3M for 2 Years.
Niko Mikkola 850K-1M
Derrick Pouliot 700K-800K
Mitch Reinke 800K-1M
Jake Walman 800K-975K

UFA Contract Expiry:

Jay Bouwmeester Let Go
Troy Brouwer 700K-950K
Joey LaLeggia Let go
Nick Lappin Let Go
Alex Pietrangelo 5 Years 8 million
Michael Vecchione Let Go

Players in Reserves to watch out for
Colten Ellis G
Scott Perunovich D
Tyler Tucker D
Keean Washkurak C
Vadim Zherenko G
Jeremy Michel LW


Particularly Dunn and Pietrangelo are the main players that we need to sign. Pietrangelo has a couple reasons why he would stay, a lot of people think he wants to move because of money. It's definitely not the case in words of his wife. His wife wants to stay in her hometown of St.Louis right now, and I think she does some good convincing to Alex at the moment. I think he would take a little bit of a discount of about a million because he isn't of Doughty, Hedman, or Karlsson contract tier when they all signed their contracts, and also Alex is a little older as he is 30 when most of them were 28-29 when they signed their contract so a 5 Year Contract for 8 Million per year works well because he gets a contract until he is 35 years old, and it becomes a contract he likes if we add in a No Movement Clause, or a No Trade Clause, and I personally think that Blues should do that to ensure that Pietrangelo will stay and to assure him that he is going to be here a long time.

Dunn I feel is very close to what Parayko was when he signed so I think around the same contract wouldn't hurt the Blues, and it certainly wouldn't hurt Dunn, but I also feel Dunn has a lot more to prove to get a better contract, so maybe sign him a 2 Year 3 Million Dollar Contract so by that time you can get him his long needed long term contract as he is probably wanting right now. This also gives us a little time to be cap inclined as Perron, Bozak, Steen, and a couple other contracts will be over by the time his contract is up.

Allen right now has a .926 Sv Pct and also has a 5-1-2 record so giving this he can actually be worth something at this point to a team that could really use him as a starter while a team is maybe trying to insert a young gun Goalie. I think a team such as Columbus who is stuck with Korpisalo at the moment could use Allen pretty well until Kivlenieks is ready to take on the starting role.

Blues have more than enough Right Handed Defenseman, but look to be a little short when it comes to Left handed Defenseman so trying to get a Left Handed Defenseman for Bortuzzo is a smart option. Looking within the organization I feel we have overpacked ourselves on Defenseman leaving no room for Alexandrov or Joshua. Barbashev or Bozak should probably head out the door by the end of the year.

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