Team: 2023-24 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 8, 2023

Published: Mar. 14, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Our problem isn’t going to be fixed overnight. I think Doug did a great job with the trade deadline to help us be able to speed things up. Still, we have a lot of money tied up in our sub par d-core. We can try and trade them but we’d have to give up a bunch of assets. Think we hold and burn a year off all these contracts. If vrana and kap have good value, re-evaluate and look to sell or resign. Sign a 3rd line center you can do the same with. Domi did it last year let’s see if he’d do it again. I bet he’d look for term but who knows.

We could prob sign snuggy and he’d be great at the NHL but don’t know if that kind of season would be a great development season. Give him one more year, maybe put him in the A since he’s dominating college. After one more year like this, Bolduc and snuggy will be ready, the free agent class will likely be better, years will be off the d men contracts so they should be easier to move with retention but can re-evaluate. Hopefully this can be the bottom of the valley and start to move upwards after this. If we hit on our first rounds picks, we could be back to competitive like that.

Draft:
13th: David Reinbacher
23rd: Dimitri Simashev
28th:Quentin Musty
45th: Hunter Brzutewicz

Trade back a couple spots where I think we could still land Reinbacher and get a second in the process. Obviously don’t do this till after the lottery cause ya never know but this draft would give us a solid 3 top 4 d prospects with the first two having pretty high ceilings. Musty is gonna be a solid top 6 forward. This would have us pretty loaded with good wingers. Would then need to continue to focus on D tho we’d be in a much better than we are now and centers. Zach dean doesn’t look terrible (middle 6 guy) with a couple other potential depth players.

The focus after all this would be to start looking to get rid of those contracts and building the youth of this team. I’d love to see us hold onto buch cause he’s great but maybe get top value out of him for younger guys. Idk, don’t see us being super competitive with our 4 long term D guys. Line up would look something like this in my eyes in like 4 seasons

Musty-Thomas-Kyrou
Bolduc-Buch/pick/FA- Snuggerud
Neighbors-Dean-Shenn
Blais-Alexandrov-Torpchenko

Simashev-Reinbacher
Pick/prospect-Parayko
Perunovich-Brzutewicz

Hofer
Zherenko

Obviously requires a lot of positive development and stuff but idk. There’s obviously way to much that no one is gonna read and this is all ideas and theories that I did when I got bored a couple different times so it probably doesn’t even flow well. Have fun roasting me!

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