Keeping the team together next year

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Created by: Blues4Life

Team: 2022-23 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 21, 2021

Published: Oct. 21, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Not an easy task - moderate raises for all 1st/2nd year players, Perron takes same salary.

After 2022-2023, need ROR or Vladdy to take paycuts to keep everyone together and/or get rid of Scandella when Perunovich is ready for the top 4.

Would say it is very possible any of Sundqvist, Barby, Scandella, Vladdy are traded to create cap space that will be needed to extend Kyrou/Thomas/Kostin/Perunovich/ROR

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Joshua, Dakota	1	$750,000
Kostin, Klim	1	$1,500,000
Perunovich, Scott	1	$975,000
Walman, Jake	1	$850,000
Mikkola, Niko	1	$825,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Perron, David		3	$4,000,000
Bozak, Tyler		1	$750,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$74,180,833	$1,100,000	$165,000	$8,319,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 4	O'Reilly, Ryan $1,875,000$1,875,000 C UFA - 1	Perron, David $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Kyrou, Jordan $2,800,000$2,800,000 RW UFA - 1	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 6	Buchnevich, Pavel $5,800,000$5,800,000 LW, RW, C M-NTC UFA - 3
Neighbours, Jake $835,833$835,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3	Thomas, Robert $2,800,000$2,800,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Tarasenko, Vladimir $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW NTC UFA - 1
Barbashev, Ivan $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Sundqvist, Oskar $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, C UFA - 1
		Kostin, Klim $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Scandella, Marco $3,275,000$3,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Parayko, Colton $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 8	Binnington, Jordan $6,000,000$6,000,000 G NTC UFA - 5
Krug, Torey $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC UFA - 5	Faulk, Justin $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 5	Hofer, Joel $795,000$795,000 ($82,500$82K) G RFA - 1
	Perunovich, Scott $975,000$975,000 LD RFA - 1
Mikkola, Niko $825,000$825,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bozak, Tyler $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA
Joshua, Dakota $750,000$750,000 LW UFA - 2
Walman, Jake $850,000$850,000 LD UFA - 1

Oct. 21, 2021 at 11:51 a.m.

AustonMatthews3443

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Joined: Feb. 2021

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Not related to next year, but I really like the Blues this year, up front they are a very balanced and versatile group. I could be off in this assessment as I don't watch them much but just looking at their roster could they use just one more piece on D? It's early but man they look good.

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Oct. 21, 2021 at 12:15 p.m.

Blues4Life

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Blues4Life

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 239

Likes: 42

I think an upgrade over Scandella is the biggest thing they could do to improve. But that also means shipping out Scandella + picks/prospects and the "better" D coming back has to be similar salary cap to work. We don't have much cap tied in players that don't fit here anymore.

Oct. 22, 2021 at 11:18 a.m.

tgrasso1970

Blues4Life

Joined: Jul. 2018

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I agree with your assessment, they have great depth and balance in the 4 lines. The greatest need is a long stick on the LD. Watch for an Ekholm trade at the deadline if the Preds are out of it. If this team stays healthy they have a shot for a Cup run...

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