Quietly the Worst Season Possible

Created by: A_K

Team: 2023-24 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 4, 2024

Published: Apr. 4, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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- zero deadline moves
- going to miss playoffs but finish 9th in west
- going to draft 16th
- prospects (Bolduc, Dean, Alexandrov) scratched or under 10:00 per game
- Snuggerud back to school again
- Thomas and Kyrou inconsistent, unable to carry the team
- Schenn freefall well underway
- had to move Buch to 2C because the whole middle six is worthless
- none of the experiments were successful (Vrana, Kapanen, Hayes, Blais)
- Hayes added to collection of cap dumps and immovable contracts
- Faulk somehow playing worse than Krug and Leddy
- Sunny mangled his knee prior to new contract
- wasted great goaltending

Idk about you but I can't really think of a worse outcome. It's cool to see Binner play well and Neighbours break out, but that's about it.

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Jakub Vrána: $1,475,000 ($2,625,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$83,500,000	$83,718,512	$20,000	$432,500	-$218,512

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	Neighbours, Jake $835,833$835,833 LW, RW RFA - 2
Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 5	Buchnevich, Pavel $5,800,000$5,800,000 LW, RW, C M-NTC UFA - 2	Kyrou, Jordan $8,125,000$8,125,000 RW UFA - 8
Bolduc, Zachary $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) LW RFA - 3	Hayes, Kevin $3,571,429$3,571,429 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Toropchenko, Alexey $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW RFA - 2
Walker, Nathan $775,000$775,000 LW UFA - 1	Dean, Zach $852,500$852,500 ($32,500$32K) C RFA - 3	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Leddy, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD NTC UFA - 3	Parayko, Colton $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Binnington, Jordan $6,000,000$6,000,000 G NTC UFA - 4
Krug, Torey $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC UFA - 4	Kessel, Matthew $883,750$883,750 RD RFA - 1	Hofer, Joel $775,000$775,000 G RFA - 2
Perunovich, Scott $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 1	Faulk, Justin $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Alexandrov, Nikita $816,667$816,667 C RFA - 1		Sundqvist, Oskar $775,000$775,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Blais, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Scandella, Marco $3,275,000$3,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1
Tucker, Tyler $800,000$800,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

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Apr. 4 at 2:32 p.m.

batman

fromtherivertothesea

Joined: Jul. 2023

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ouch.

Apr. 4 at 2:35 p.m.

HolyJumpin81

Joined: Feb. 2021

Posts: 452

Likes: 246

At least theyre watchable. I agree with most of these but I feel some of these are far fetched.

Apr. 4 at 2:36 p.m.

squashmaple

not a he )

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 3,224

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I mean... you could be the Blue Jackets.

Apr. 4 at 2:44 p.m.

A_K

Lets Go Blues

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 6,777

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Quoting: HolyJumpin81

At least theyre watchable. I agree with most of these but I feel some of these are far fetched.

Which ones are farfetched? I know they're not all equally maddening. Like the Snuggerud news is a minor bummer. Most of this list is just thinking about if you could make the outcomes of this season worse, what would that look like? I think reality is looking pretty close to worst case.

We knew going into this season that the hopes were to make playoffs with the expectation that they would likely miss. Just a bummer that they're gonna /barely/ miss, and that they couldn't show a direction before the deadline (or that none of the UFA guys could show they had any value).

Apr. 4 at 2:45 p.m.

A_K

Lets Go Blues

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 6,777

Likes: 4,333

Quoting: squashmaple

I mean... you could be the Blue Jackets.

For you guys it's probably getting old to hear but picking top 5 is at least in the right place for the big picture.

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