Pacioretty Trade, from the Blues perspective

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Created by: seb

Team: 2017-18 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 3, 2018

Published: Jan. 3, 2018

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

The Montreal Canadiens are in dire need of prospects. The St-Louis Blues want to win a Stanley Cup for the first time. So, The Montreal Canadiens should trade Max Pacioretty at a retained salary to accomodate the Blues, who have almost no cap space. Plus, Montreal's second round pick goes the other way (it will be pretty high, I suppose). Vladimir Sobotka goes the other way for Montreal because St-Louis has to clear some cap space in order to do the trade. Plus, prospects Robert Thomas (who will play again on the same team as Victor Mete) and Klim Kostin (who would be a great addition to the Laval Rocket) pack their bags. This trade could be disastrous in the short run for Montreal, but I think it would be beneficial for both teams. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below.

Trades

STL

Pacioretty, Max ($1,500,000 retained)
2018 2nd round pick (MTL)

MTL

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2018
2019
2020

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
27	$75,000,000	$67,485,000	$0	$775,000	$7,515,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Schwartz, Jaden $5,350,000$5,350,000 LW UFA - 4	Schenn, Brayden $5,125,000$5,125,000 C, LW UFA - 3	Steen, Alexander $5,750,000$5,750,000 LW, RW, C NTC UFA - 4
Pacioretty, Max $2,550,000$2,550,000 LW UFA - 2	Stastny, Paul $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 1	Tarasenko, Vladimir $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW UFA - 6
Berglund, Patrik $3,850,000$3,850,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 5	Brodziak, Kyle $950,000$950,000 C UFA - 1	Thompson, Tage $925,000$925,000 C UFA - 3
Upshall, Scottie $800,000$800,000 LW UFA - 1	Barbashev, Ivan $741,667$741,667 ($182,500$182K) LW, RW UFA - 2	Pääjärvi, Magnus $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Jaskin, Dmitrij $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Sundqvist, Oskar $675,000$675,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Thorburn, Chris $900,000$900,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Blais, Samuel $673,333$673,333 ($77,500$78K) LW, RW UFA - 2	Kaspick, Tanner $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 4

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Bouwmeester, Jay $5,400,000$5,400,000 LD NTC UFA - 2	Pietrangelo, Alex $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 3	Allen, Jake $4,350,000$4,350,000 G UFA - 4
Gunnarsson, Carl $2,900,000$2,900,000 LD UFA - 2	Parayko, Colton $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD UFA - 5	Hutton, Carter $1,125,000$1,125,000 G UFA - 1
Edmundson, Joel $1,050,000$1,050,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Bortuzzo, Robert $1,150,000$1,150,000 RD UFA - 2	Opilka, Luke $697,500$697,500 ($257,500$258K) G RFA - 3
Dunn, Vince $722,500$722,500 ($257,500$258K) LD/RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Sanford, Zachary $875,000$875,000 ($50,000$50K) LW, RW UFA - 2
		Fabbri, Robby $894,167$894,167 ($425,000$425K) LW UFA - 1

Jan. 3, 2018 at 11:00 p.m.

Mathrich

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 233

Likes: 9

Change the second for a third and had blais and we have a deal!

Jan. 3, 2018 at 11:11 p.m.

deleted9018390uifoewu890

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 1,725

Likes: 430

It looks good from the St. Louis perspective.

Not sure Sobotka holds much allure for Montreal, which will be rebuilding, but see the reasoning for it because of cap. That said, Montreal would likely rather not take him back (they could trade him again keeping a big chunk of his cap) From what I've seen, Thomas and Kostin are sound prospects, but there are any number of other prospects that St. Louis could use to round out a deal.

Jan. 4, 2018 at 6:52 a.m.

BluesBandit

Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 1,769

Likes: 491

I think this is a great trade for the value perspective, but I'm just not a big Patches fan. He's not what the Blues need and I don't know how much better he'd do here than in MTL right now. If he was a RHS RW then yes 100%. If we luck out into Tavares this offseason (big if), then this move would make more sense.

Jan. 4, 2018 at 7:00 a.m.

Artuma

hockey nerd

Joined: Dec. 2016

Posts: 549

Likes: 87

Good deal from the Habs perspective as well! Having Thomas as a main piece coming in return is exactly what we need, and retaining on Patches and taking on Sobotka's contract is not hurting us too much cap-wise. I like Kostin too.

Jan. 5, 2018 at 5:58 p.m.

worcat

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 275

Likes: 63

giving up way too much talent on the blues end.

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