If you're rebuilding, you don't want to be competitive. Go the Leaf model. Ice a crap team, finish as low as possible, get high draft picks and pray you land 1st overall to net a franchise center.

I don’t see the need in Patches honestly the team has good depth. And Fabbri is solid top 6 when healthy no need for Patches in STL. He is older so we won’t get as much production as we would if we got Fabbri at his peak

Fair enough. Although I feel every team could use more 30+ goal scorers, I understand your position. IF you were looking to make a trade for Patches, what do you think of my value? I kinda took the trade from another post from a Blues fan and personally thought it was fair

Maybe my choice of words were wrong. Yes we're rebuilding but I also don't think we're as far behind as the leafs once were. Gally, Drouin, Domi, Mete, Juulsen, Lehkonen, Danault, Hudon are all young and our main prospects will most likely make their way up in the next 2 years. I figured I could put together a relatively young team with experience to get ready for their arrival.

Also, it's so hard to tank nowadays and I don't think the Habs will be bad enough to get a great shot at Hughes (unless we're very lucky with the lottery). Then again, I could very wlel be wrong here LOL.

Anyways, just my opinions

It's dump-on-Pacioretty month (again). Don't worry about it. It's a fair deal; it might just not be what "Beast" wants. That's fair.

What's confusing is that you say you're in rebuilding mode, then trading away JDLR, Scherback, and two draft picks to teams that are in win-now mode. If you're really thinking 2-3 years away, think Byron and Petry, and once he's healthy, maybe even Weber. Make Gallagher the captain and surround him with leaders so that he doesn't get pummelled like Pacioretty.

Honestly, the only reason why I didn't work on a Byron trade is cause he starts the year on IR. I'm also totally open to dealing Petry but I think his value will be much higher at the deadline (and it gives us some game time to help him train Mete)

I really like DLR but I don't think he has what it takes to be an impact player for this team and with Plek/Peca, he's probably expendable (also, with the way I structured these trades there were too many Cs). Scherbak is a hard one to let go of but i'm really not too sold on him. He's been in our system for a while and I feel he's never going to reach his potential here. In terms of letting go of the two picks, I did so to get some still relatively young players to better round out our team. At the deadline i'm sure we'll stockpile more picks.

I think this rebuild has a lot to do with mentality and removing the "old" system from our players DNA

For the most part pretty good. I'll just point out the obvious.

Bouwmeester has a NTC so I can only imagine a poor MTL team not being on his list for his final year of his contract.
Fabbri is very decent young player but he coming off a really bad couple of injuries. I would have to see what he can do back in the lineup before making a trade for him first.
I think Schlemko is untradeable right now, at least for anything in return other than another player who is in cap dump territory but with less term. He needs a bounce back year or else he is destined for MTL's bottom pairing for the rest of his contract or he'll be sent down to Laval and hopefully picked off waivers.

I would say that is completely fine if they were trying to gain Patches