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What could have been

Created by: Blueman96
Team: 2022-23 St. Louis Blues
Initial Creation Date: Jan. 31, 2023
Published: Jan. 31, 2023
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It's been largely bad decision after bad decision with Armstrong since the cup win.

The roster that should have been...

Not over-reacting and trading for & extending Faulk
Keep Petro by any means necessary (which obviated the need to sign Krug)
Keep Perron
Never make the Scandella or Leddy deals (esp the extensions)

*shake head*

The crazy thing is that these are not ridiculous "what if's," it's largely just keeping the guys we already had, that, you know, WON THE STANLEY CUP.

(I didn't move Maroon back but he could be interchangeable with Acciari I guess...)
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Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:36 a.m.
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Don't forget Tage Thompson
Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:38 a.m.
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Yeah, I have one of these "coulda been" AGMs loaded up, but I just don;t have the heart to finish it. Too painful.


Quoting: BhasCaps
Don't forget Tage Thompson


I think we're all okay with how that trade turned out, thanks.
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Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:38 a.m.
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Don't forget Tage Thompson


I was talking since the Cup win. I still do that trade 100 times out of 100. Winning the Stanley Cup is the whole point, so I'm fine with that trade and always will be. It will always have been worth it, even if the Sabres win 4 straight and Tage wins 4 Conn Smythe's.
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Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:42 a.m.
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Yeah, I have one of these "coulda been" AGMs loaded up, but I just don;t have the heart to finish it. Too painful.


I hate looking at the one I just made. It's a great looking roster: balance of studs and depth and skill. I think Parayko would be much better in his #2 role.

It's just been mis-step after mis-step after mis-step. Like I said in my little intro thing, this roster isn't even that crazy, it's just mainly keeping guys you already had!

*punches wall*

Okay I'm done...
Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:47 a.m.
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For the life of me, I will never understand his reluctance to give a NMC but will give NTC to guys like Leddy, Krug, Saad, Faulk. I understand the other NTCs as they are core guys and have been around a while and won the cup but my god he should have given Petro his NMC and the statue outside Enterprise.
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Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:49 a.m.
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Quoting: Blueman96
I hate looking at the one I just made. It's a great looking roster: balance of studs and depth and skill. I think Parayko would be much better in his #2 role.

It's just been mis-step after mis-step after mis-step. Like I said in my little intro thing, this roster isn't even that crazy, it's just mainly keeping guys you already had!

*punches wall*

Okay I'm done...


There's another realistic alternate universe where the top 4 is

Dunn-Pietrangelo
Toews-Parayko

I think the Isles traded Toews like a week after Krug signed. The front office must have traded their brains for that cup.
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Jan. 31, 2023 at 10:57 a.m.
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For the life of me, I will never understand his reluctance to give a NMC but will give NTC to guys like Leddy, Krug, Saad, Faulk. I understand the other NTCs as they are core guys and have been around a while and won the cup but my god he should have given Petro his NMC and the statue outside Enterprise.


Preach.

And according to what I've heard/read Army didn't offer the partial NMC and partial signing bonus money until that 11th hour offer when Petro was already frustrated and wanted to see what the market would offer him.

I personally feel things are very different if you offer him the full NMC right out of the gate and whatever signing bonus money ownership would authorize you to make. It wouldn't have been nearly what Vegas offered him, it's true, but it would've been 1 of the 2 big things he wanted and at least some of the other. We'll never know, but I think it would've altered the course of events dramatically. But that's just me...

You keep your studs. It's that simple.
Jan. 31, 2023 at 12:07 p.m.
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Detroit passes, Perron, Sunny and Walman have been playing well for us. Leddy was a waste of a trade.
Jan. 31, 2023 at 1:40 p.m.
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Army needs to stop associating himself with Yzerman man.

Out: Fabbri, Walman, Perron, Sunny, 2nd
In: De La Rose, Leddy
Jan. 31, 2023 at 4:55 p.m.
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Army needs to stop associating himself with Yzerman man.

Out: Fabbri, Walman, Perron, Sunny, 2nd
In: De La Rose, Leddy


Waiting for the next move🤤
 
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