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Created by: rja40

Team: 2020-21 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 26, 2020

Published: Aug. 29, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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The Blues have now lost Bouwmeester and Tarasenko, and Pietrangelo could be next. Two of your top three defensemen are gone off of a team that wins by defense. Add to that the best scorer on the team may not ever come back, and if he does, it's no sure thing he remains your "top scorer." Blues are in a precarious position right now. Many like to talk about a "Cup window," but the Blues missed the playoffs the year before we won and were also the worst team in hockey at one point the same year we won. A "Cup window" is pretense. Blues need to use the money they have gained from our major losses (and possible loss) and complement the veteran Cup winners with some youth and scoring prowess. Bouwmeester was a shut-down LHD, and his loss was magnified in the "Bubble." Blues shouldn't think they can completely shut down talented teams anymore, and Vancouver proved that.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Reinke, Mitch	2	$800,000
Walman, Jake	2	$950,000
Dunn, Vince	4	$4,000,000
Poganski, Austin	2	$800,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Fast, Jesper		2	$2,250,000

Trades

STL

Kreider, Chris

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Rangers never anticipated winning the top pick, but now that they have, they can move Krieder for assets. Faulk brings a veteran presence to the young Ranger D-core. Barbashev fills the glaring need of a 3C, and he is young enough to grow with the team.

NYR

Barbashev, Ivan
Faulk, Justin
2021 1st round pick (STL)

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Blues bring in a guy who was born to play for the Blues. They pick up some desperately needed speed and scoring for the left wing.

STL

Lodnia, Ivan
2021 5th round pick (MIN)

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Wild secure a desperately needed center while giving up a player who looks to be a bottom six winger.

MIN

Bozak, Tyler

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Blues move salary for futures.

STL

Berggren, Jonatan [Reserve List]
2020 6th round pick (DET)

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Detroit picks up a 1B goalie to push Bernier.

DET

Allen, Jake

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Blues add more futures.

STL

2020 3rd round pick (WSH)

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Habs pick up a young offensive LHD ready to break into the NHL.

MTL

Walman, Jake

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Blues make room for Perunovich to get more AHL time.

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$64,334,681	$306,349	$637,500	$17,165,319

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kreider, Chris $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW NMC UFA - 7	O'Reilly, Ryan $1,875,000$1,875,000 C UFA - 3	Perron, David $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Schwartz, Jaden $5,350,000$5,350,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 8	Fast, Jesper $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW UFA - 3
Sanford, Zachary $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Thomas, Robert $894,166$894,166 ($425,000$425K) C, RW UFA - 1	Kyrou, Jordan $758,333$758,333 RW UFA - 1
Steen, Alexander $5,750,000$5,750,000 LW, RW, C NTC UFA - 1	Sundqvist, Oskar $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, C UFA - 3	Blais, Samuel $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
MacEachern, Mackenzie $900,000$900,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Kostin, Klim $863,333$863,333 ($212,500$212K) LW, RW RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Scandella, Marco $3,275,000$3,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4	Parayko, Colton $5,500,000$5,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Binnington, Jordan $4,400,000$4,400,000 G UFA - 1
Gunnarsson, Carl $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Reinke, Mitch $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1	Husso, Ville $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 2
Dunn, Vince $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Bortuzzo, Robert $1,375,000$1,375,000 RD UFA - 2
Mikkola, Niko $787,500$787,500 LD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Foley, Erik $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 1
		Tarasenko, Vladimir $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW NTC UFA - 3

Aug. 31, 2020 at 8:51 p.m.

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rja40

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Quoting: mokumboi

I was referring to PP1. Their top two lines didn;t do much at all at evens, even with from Horvat's two doozies. And on one of those Schwartz was the guy caught flat-footed as the only man back. I think he was heading for a line change when it happened, so I can;t really blame him too much for being a pylon. I'm not going to lay it all on COVID (eg; our goalies definitely made bad errors at the wrong times), but there's no denying that the guys who got sick didn't look themselves. Had this series taken place before the pause, we'd have shredded them, as Vegas is doing now.

It definitely appeared like Parayko might have been one of the guys who were sick. He was clearly not himself.

Aug. 31, 2020 at 10:00 p.m.

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mokumboi

Joined: Apr. 2019

Posts: 29,348

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Quoting: rja40

It definitely appeared like Parayko might have been one of the guys who were sick. He was clearly not himself.

He definitely was one of them. Dunn was, too.

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