No thanks on Hoffman, he doesn;t fit our game. And we're not paying to retain $2M on Bozak. We'd rather keep him to do what he does and play Kyrou up.

Yeah just keep Bozak and don't sign Hoffman

Schenn/Schwartz - O'Reilly - Perron
Schwartz/Schenn - Thomas - Kyrou/Tarasenko
Sanford - Bozak - Kyrou/Tarasenko
Blais - Barbashev - Sundqvist

Disregarding the fact that the Blues aren’t even pressured to move Bozak at the moment, Bozak at $3M cap hit is not a cap dump Blues would need to lose assets for whatsoever.

He has been a 22+ goal scorer the last 6 seasons? Who knows if Tarasenko will get back to his usual self? also 5 of last 6 season Hoffman scored 26+.With the uncertainty of Vlad being his usual self the Blues could use a pure sniper

I mean one year left of 5m cap space is an overpay. Who knows if they wanna move him or not.

Or trade Bozak and Gunnarsson and get a guy who has scored 26+ in the last 5/6 seasons

They don't.



Yeah, I'm aware of all that, but again, he doesn;t fit our game. He's so bad at 5v5 that he hurts the team more than he helps them with his goals.

SURPRISE the Ottawa Senators were on the call and they offer to take Bozak (at full salary) along with your 2022 2nd round pick for Ottawa's 2022 5th round pick.

Leaving aside the fact that it's almost assured that we would foolishly be moving additional assets to trade Bozak and Gunnarsson, I don't know why you would want someone who scored 26+ goals yet didn't manage to get one Win Above Replacement in the last three seasons. It's almost as if he is a terrible 5v5 player whose value is inherent only scoring on the PP and whose evident defensive decline tracks perfectly with him aging out of his prime. That player already exists on the Blues, his name is David Perron.

You're basing looking at the fact that he scores goals and nothing else and telling me "please pay other teams to take good players and sign a bad one to improve your team". Look deeper into why some of these players are still unsigned.