Team: 2023-24 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 5, 2023

Published: Dec. 5, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Also, how do Blues fans feel about this season. We are consistently inconsistent and it seems without Binner we would be a bottom 5 team. Schenn no longer looks like a top 6 player and Hayes has been brutal on everything but the faceoff dot (where he has been shockingly good).

I think the Blues need to get a winger or center that can keep up with Kyrou as right now he just has to do everything himself and leaves the much slower Hayes and Schenn in the dust.
I would love if the Blues move out maybe one of Saad or Hayes at the deadline and replace them with a younger, faster, player but we'll see if that happens.

The player I would target if available is Krebs. I think ideally you could get him to play as the 2C and push Schenn down to the 3C where he would be more comfortable. Krebs and Kyrou might go crazy together. The thing is Buffalo fans really like Krebs and likely Buffalo management does as well. He is clearly very talented they are just using him as a defensive center. But if I were Krebs I would want out of Buffalo as he will get passed up by their loaded farm system soon and he could make a lot more money elsewhere playing top 6 minutes. Just an opinion though.

Also thoughts on Alexandrov? I thought he played his best game of the year last night. I wish we would have just had confidence in him to play 3C instead of bringing in Hayes as Alexandrov really isn't meant for the 4th line. My biggest problem with him is he is horrible of faceoffs. He simply needs to get better at that for the Blues to have faith in him at center. I'd like to see him in the lineup more and maybe higher up the lineup (even though he isn't in the lineup below that's just because realistically they won't bench the vets in front of him).

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