If Kucherov and Point aren't scoring where are the goals coming from?

If you view Parayko that way just sign Roy in the offseason. You’re asking the Blues to tear down their defense completely and be terrible for 5+ years and offering junk frankly. You aren’t going to get a good response.

Trading for Parayko leaves us with less assets and dooms all hope of signing a solid scorer. Would rather take the chance and develop the younger defensemen in the system instead of botch the cap situation even further.

Outside of the first line and Nick Paul (lol) there is no dependable depth scoring on this team

On the plus side, you'll have $5.5m in cap space to sign Stammer because St. Louis isn't making that deal.