Shuffle the Defense Deck

Created by: A_K

Team: 2023-24 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 16, 2023

Published: Oct. 16, 2023

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Binnington has stolen 3 points so far, I still don't have faith in this defense but some shuffling of the pairings could help. Perunovich should enter just to try to liven up the miserable PP. And Parayko is actually playing very well despite Leddy being his usual self.

Sounds like Buch will be out 1-2 weeks :(. Not quite long enough for LTIR so I don't think they can make a call-up.

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$83,218,929	$20,000	$0	$281,071

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 3	Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW UFA - 8	Kyrou, Jordan $8,125,000$8,125,000 RW UFA - 8
Neighbours, Jake $835,833$835,833 LW, RW RFA - 2	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 5	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 1
Vrána, Jakub $2,625,000$2,625,000 LW UFA - 1	Hayes, Kevin $3,571,429$3,571,429 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Blais, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Toropchenko, Alexey $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Alexandrov, Nikita $816,667$816,667 C RFA - 1	Sundqvist, Oskar $775,000$775,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Krug, Torey $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC UFA - 4	Parayko, Colton $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Binnington, Jordan $6,000,000$6,000,000 G NTC UFA - 4
Perunovich, Scott $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 1	Faulk, Justin $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 4	Hofer, Joel $775,000$775,000 G RFA - 2
Leddy, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD NTC UFA - 3	Tucker, Tyler $800,000$800,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bortuzzo, Robert $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 1	Buchnevich, Pavel $5,800,000$5,800,000 LW, RW, C M-NTC UFA - 2
Scandella, Marco $3,275,000$3,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Schenn, B.		Thomas, R.		Vrána, J.
	Kyrou, J.		Perunovich, S.

Power Play 2
Blais, S.		Hayes, K.		Saad, B.
	Faulk, J.		Krug, T.

Penalty Kill 1
	Saad, B.	Thomas, R.
	Leddy, N.	Parayko, C.

Penalty Kill 2
	Neighbours, J.	Sundqvist, O.
	Tucker, T.	Faulk, J.

Top Comments

Oct. 16, 2023 at 11:34 a.m.

AC14

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I’m not sure Perunovich can save this PP. Krug is and has always been one of the better PP puck movers in the league. It’s hard to have success when everything is a jumbled mess because 2 of the first 3 passes are off the tape and we can’t get a clean entry. I’m not so sure all of that is on the defenseman at this point.

Oct. 16, 2023 at 11:39 a.m.

A_K

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Quoting: AC14

Something has to change because that PP is hardd to watch. Thoughts on Vrana moving up to PP1 and trying to get shots from that right side? Tbh I don't even know how it looks in their sets because like you said they can never even get a clean entry to set up. But with Buch out someone is going to have to move up.

Oct. 16, 2023 at 1:12 p.m.

AC14

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Quoting: A_K

On paper it’s a good idea. But the issue is I don’t know if it helps with the entries. Our entries have been so bad I’m pretty sure we’ve been getting outshot on the PP.

It’s odd because we have good puck carriers on that first unit. But I think there’s something fundamentally wrong because it seems like the same thing everytime. Skate to center with Krug. And drop to Thomas or a Kyrou to enter with speed and they get jammed up. Issue may realistically be Krug not being able to carry the entry himself. I don’t know if that’s a him thing or a fundamental thing

Oct. 16, 2023 at 1:35 p.m.

mokumboi

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Okay, first of all, Krug has been god awful the first two games while Leddy has actually been fantastic. So I have no idea how this helps anything.

Oct. 16, 2023 at 1:54 p.m.

A_K

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Quoting: mokumboi

Okay, first of all, Krug has been god awful the first two games while Leddy has actually been fantastic. So I have no idea how this helps anything.

Don't you "first of all" me! The only D who has been passable IMO is Parayko - he has been really strong back there. Really I can't believe they've kept 4-55 together after the atrocities they committed last season. I don't know why they think it has to be like that. Same with Krug-Faulk, they get the easy minutes and get to play mostly with the top F line and still don't know what to do. Long overdue for a changeup the way I see it.

The other weird thing is playing the bottom pair 10 min per game. I thought the simplest way to improve the D - since they didn't/couldn't change personnel - would be to spread out the 5v5 minutes a little more. It's early but they moved the other way so far...

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