Bozak isn't negative value. that trade wouldn't happen.

The Kings aren't going to mitigate a Loui Eriksson cap dump. The 1st is enough compensation for Eriksson, but they're not going to send back Moore and a 4th. They might send a project prospect like Luff or Brickley.

Is Bozak a cap dump? I didn't follow him much this season. He was a good player during last year's cup run. If the Blues are willing to pay a 1st to dump him, I'm sure the Kings would jump at it. I just don't see why the Blues would do that.

Substitute Blake Lizotte for Amadio and I can see both teams doing that.

I can't see Los Angeles helping a divisional rival with a cap dump.

Eh? The Blues are not paying anyone to take Bozak, let alone a 2020 1st. And adding Lizotte, whom they have no need for, ain't close to changing that.

Whether St Louis would pay to move Bozak is one question, and I tend to agree with you that they probably won't have to. Whether St Louis would like to exchange #3Cs, pick up $4 million in cap space and acquire a younger player they might have team control over for several more years in doing so is another. Bozak for Lizotte straight up has some appeal for the Blues.

Yeah, except that's not what we're talking about here. You somehow forgot that 2020 1st in this proposal. Nobody said anything about Bozak for Lizotte 1-for-1 until you did just now.

I didn't forget anything. I was responding to your statement that the Blues "have no need for" Lizotte, which is an overstatement at the least.

You said "Substitute Blake Lizotte for Amadio and I can see both teams doing that." The "that" you refer to includes the 1st.

And yes, we are flush with centers, both in the team now and in the prospect pool, and aren't exactly eager to add a teeny tiny one with moderate skill bearing this sort of price tag. That's hardly a controversial take.

I give up. It's like pointing is to a dog -- the dog just looks at your hand, not what you're pointing at.

What are you on about? Those are your exact words, dude. I'm the guy pointing here.

Nothing against Bozak, but STL needs to dump salary in order to resign their Captain, and then resign their starting goalie next off season. Steen has a NMC, and you’re not trading Schwartz, so please suggest to me where STL shaves off their cap in order to keep Pietrangelo & Bennington??

Never mind. I apologize for trying to get you to focus on the ramifications of your statement that St Louis has no use for Lizotte, which inevitably implies that the Blues will retain Bozak, which equally inevitably implies that you won't have enough space to re-sign Pietrangelo, as noted in the immediately preceding comment by the OP, but you seem fixated on that first-round-pick irrelevancy.

I think that your comment was a question to mokumboi.

I said "no need" - not the same thing. And pretty accurate. They have centers falling out their butt left and right, which is where half of them end up playing because we have so many centers.

No, it doesn't.

No, it doesn't.

It's not irrelevant at all. Do I need to quote your exact words again? They certainly are highly relevant to my exact response to your exact comment. FFS, this is not even remotely difficult to understand, and yet you want to freak out about it as if I'm playing dumb. Would the Blues perhaps be interested in swapping Bozak for LIzotte 1 for 1? Sure, perhaps they would. But that's not what you originally said, is it? No, it is not. Duh-doy.

Good grief already.







Uhh, Bozak. I never said he's not available. In fact, I've repeatedly said he's probably next to go. We're just not going to give someone a 2020 1st to do it. Because that would be stupid and unneccessary, because some other team would blow this offer out of the water, which would obviously be very easy to do. You ask waaaaay too much here. You can grab Bozak for a 3rd, maybe a 4th. Or hell, maybe Lizotte. But asking for a 1st for us to improve your team is a pipe dream.