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Created by: Blues4Life

Team: 2023-24 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 8, 2023

Published: Jun. 8, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Army has repeatedly stated he would look to add another player aged 24-26 to the core of Thomas/Kyrou. Who would you prefer of the potentially available names? (factor in cost both in terms of acquisition cost and contract/AAV).

Clayton Keller - LW, age 24, STL boy, 5 years, $7.15M AAV
Alex DeBrincat - RW, age 25, RFA
Pierre Luc-Dubois (unlikely he wants STL) - 24 year old center, RFA
Noah Hanifin - LHD, age 24, $4.95M AAV for 23-24 then UFA
Nick Schmaltz - Center, age 27, 3 years, $5.85M AAV ($8.15M avg in salary would be why ARZ could trade)

Not sure if there are any others but feel free to comment. Scratches are potential trade chips (along with draft picks)

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
DeBrincat, Alex	1	$8,000,000
Dubois, Pierre-Luc	1	$8,000,000
Perunovich, Scott	1	$800,000
Toropchenko, Alexey	1	$800,000
Tucker, Tyler	1	$800,000

Trades

STL

ARI

STL

Dubois, Pierre-Luc [RFA Rights]

WPG

STL

Hanifin, Noah

CGY

STL

DeBrincat, Alex [RFA Rights]

OTT

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$83,500,000	$80,938,333	$20,000	$432,500	$2,561,667

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Vrána, Jakub $2,625,000$2,625,000 LW UFA - 1	Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW UFA - 8	Buchnevich, Pavel $5,800,000$5,800,000 LW, RW, C M-NTC UFA - 2
Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 3	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 5	Kyrou, Jordan $8,125,000$8,125,000 RW UFA - 8
Blais, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Alexandrov, Nikita $816,667$816,667 C RFA - 1	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 1
	Walker, Nathan $775,000$775,000 LW UFA - 1	Toropchenko, Alexey $800,000$800,000 LW, RW RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Leddy, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD NTC UFA - 3	Parayko, Colton $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 7	Binnington, Jordan $6,000,000$6,000,000 G NTC UFA - 4
Krug, Torey $6,500,000$6,500,000 LD NTC UFA - 4	Faulk, Justin $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 4	Hofer, Joel $775,000$775,000 G RFA - 2
Scandella, Marco $3,275,000$3,275,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Bortuzzo, Robert $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 1
Tucker, Tyler $800,000$800,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bolduc, Zachary $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) LW RFA - 3		DeBrincat, Alex $8,000,000$8,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 4
Perunovich, Scott $800,000$800,000 LD RFA - 1		Dubois, Pierre-Luc $8,000,000$8,000,000 C UFA - 8
Dean, Zach $852,500$852,500 ($32,500$32K) C RFA - 3		Keller, Clayton $7,150,000$7,150,000 LW, RW UFA - 5
Neighbours, Jake $835,833$835,833 LW, RW RFA - 2		Schmaltz, Nick $5,850,000$5,850,000 RW, C M-NTC UFA - 3
		Hanifin, Noah $1,237,500$1,237,500 LD M-NTC UFA - 1

Jun. 8, 2023 at 12:07 p.m.

AC14

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Hanifin, not even close between the other options. PLD has pretty much given up on two separate teams already. Keller + Schmaltz acquisition would cost too much and frankly we need to use the cap elsewhere, same thing with Debrincat.

Top targets would be Hanifin, Chabot, K'andre Miller

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Jun. 8, 2023 at 12:09 p.m.

Blues4Life

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Blues4Life

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Quoting: AC14

Don't see Chabot/Miller being made available any time soon, but agreed we need a young top 2 LHD. (hopefully can ship out Krug/Leddy)

Jun. 8, 2023 at 12:13 p.m.

AC14

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Quoting: Blues4Life

Don't see Chabot/Miller being made available any time soon, but agreed we need a young top 2 LHD. (hopefully can ship out Krug/Leddy)

Wouldn't be as shocked to be honest with you. Need to do some digging on Rangers cap situation, but it's not good. Could pretty readily see Chabot being made available. Teams wanting to sell, big contract, have Chycrun and Sanderson aswell.

Jun. 8, 2023 at 12:57 p.m.

mokumboi

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The only one on the list I'm somewhat interested in is Hanifin, and he could be signed for nothing next summer. Also not interested in Chabot. For me, the most diabolical option of all is offer sheeting Byram away from the Avs. Of course, we'd need to move Krug or Leddy first.

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Jun. 8, 2023 at 12:58 p.m.

Frankus_maximus

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Quoting: AC14

Just interested in seeing what a chabot trade would look like for you. Been trying to find a place for him to clear up cap space and it is difficult to find a spot for a high price LD.

Jun. 8, 2023 at 1:06 p.m.

Zizzle

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Chabots 8M contract is worse than what we currently have . Hanifin would be great. But at what cost? Would Calgary take back Maybe saad ++.

Jun. 8, 2023 at 2:08 p.m.

AC14

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Quoting: Frankus_maximus

Just interested in seeing what a chabot trade would look like for you. Been trying to find a place for him to clear up cap space and it is difficult to find a spot for a high price LD.

Couple of options.

Maybe like a hockey trade of Chabot for Kyrou.

If it's a futures package Scandella is probably going to have to go the other way, he's the only one without a full NTC, but still it's hard in a deal with Ottawa being a Canadian team. Would doubt Leddy or Krug would waive to go to Canada.

Maybe a hockey trade of Faulk/Parayko, but then again, that may hurt us more than it helps.

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Jun. 8, 2023 at 2:52 p.m.

Frankus_maximus

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Quoting: AC14

Cool. Thanks for taking the time to answer. I appreciate it.

Jun. 8, 2023 at 6:53 p.m.

mokumboi

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Quoting: AC14

Maybe like a hockey trade of Chabot for Kyrou.

Dude. No.

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