What Army should do

Created by: BeastModeUnknown

Initial Creation Date: Oct 15, 2020

Published: Oct 15, 2020 at 7:57

Team: 2020-21 St. Louis Blues

Legend

Lefthanded

Original Team

Righthanded

Position

No Move/Trade Clause

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000

NMC

UFA - 5

Team Explanation

It's a solid team.

Dunn 2 Years, 3 Million
-I honestly doubt Blues trade Vince Dunn for a good reason. Blues are kind of weak still on the left side until Scott Perunovich is ready, and he is not ready yet. Vince Dunn is a very good player statistically sits up there with some of the big boys. Vince Dunn price range would probably be around a First Round Pick+Top Prospect (Top 6 Forward) or get us a needed goal scorer. Blues wouldn't really do this until Perunovich is ready or they seriously get that goal help they have been needing.

Bozak is being outlined by the Paul Stastny trade. Bozak is better 5v5 than Stastny, and could hold a 2C spot very well. So I did a 4th and a Lower tier prospect for him and retained while at it for the 1 year it is. Which will fit the gap Vegas needs he's cheaper than Stastny and does better than Stastny as well. So this is a decent deal I think could really be set up for Vegas to do something this year.

De La Rose in my opinion is slowly sinking down the depth chart and really doesn't have much use for St.Louis anymore. Toronto could use a guy like him a bit more gritty but losing Clifford I think they could use him very well on the Bottom Line.

I've heard San Jose fans have been interested in Bortuzzo, but also Toronto would work to. It focuses on how Bortuzzo is very solid in his role as a stay-at-home defenseman on the bottom pairing. He's a very solid defender, and could probably generate 4th-5th round pick. I feel with the Santini deal this could be a very viable move for us although Bortuzzo is very serviceable I wouldn't mind keeping him on the roster either.

Sanford is very interesting. I'm not a huge fan of him, I know a lot of people are, but he is very inconsistent unless he is on a line with a top star. Oilers could use some Winger depth for the time being.. Sanford plays on Top Line for us, but he's probably a middle 6 forward that could probably. get a mid tier draft pick 4th-5th round pick.

Some of the prospects that haven't been signed by us but are all very good prospects so I just signed them to ELCs.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Cranley, Will	3	$833,333
Ellis, Colten	3	$833,333
Kessel, Matthew	3	$833,333
Lööf, Leo	3	$896,666
Neighbours, Jake	3	$925,000
Peterson, Dylan	3	$896,666
Dickinson, Tanner	3	$833,333

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dunn, Vince	2	$3,000,000
Reinke, Mitch	2	$750,000
Walman, Jake	2	$750,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kahun, Dominik		1	$1,000,000

Trades

STL

Cotter, Paul
2021 4th round pick (WPG)

VGK

Bozak, Tyler ($2,000,000 retained)

STL

2021 6th round pick (TOR)

TOR

De La Rose, Jacob

STL

2021 4th round pick (SJS)

SJS

Bortuzzo, Robert

STL

2021 4th round pick (EDM)

EDM

Sanford, Zachary

Retained Salary Transactions

Tyler Bozak: $2,000,000 (40%)

DRAFT YEAR	ROUND 1	ROUND 2	ROUND 3	ROUND 4	ROUND 5	ROUND 6	ROUND 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$76,672,181	$306,349	$637,500	$4,827,819

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Perron, David $4,000,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 2	O'Reilly, Ryan $7,500,000 C UFA - 3	Tarasenko, Vladimir $7,500,000 RW NTC UFA - 3
Schwartz, Jaden $5,350,000 LW NTC UFA - 1	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 8	Thomas, Robert $894,166 RW, C RFA - 1
Kahun, Dominik $1,000,000 LW, RW, C RFA - 1	Sundqvist, Oskar $2,750,000 C, RW UFA - 3	Kyrou, Jordan $758,333 RW RFA - 1
Clifford, Kyle $1,000,000 LW UFA - 2	Barbashev, Ivan $1,475,000 C RFA - 1	Blais, Samuel $1,500,000 RW RFA - 2
MacEachern, Mackenzie $900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Kostin, Klim $863,333 RW RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Krug, Torey $6,500,000 LD NTC UFA - 7	Parayko, Colton $5,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Binnington, Jordan $4,400,000 G UFA - 1
Dunn, Vince $3,000,000 LD RFA - 1	Faulk, Justin $6,500,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 7	Husso, Ville $750,000 G UFA - 2
Scandella, Marco $3,275,000 LD NTC UFA - 4	Santini, Steven $700,000 RD RFA - 1
Gunnarsson, Carl $1,750,000 LD NTC UFA - 1