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Created by: Beauterham

Team: 2023-24 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 5, 2024

Published: Mar. 5, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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St.Louis goes into sell-mode.

The Hayes trade:
The Rangers get bottom 6 center upgrades and dumping Goodrows terrible contract but gives up a couple of promising prospects and picks doing so.
St.Louis adds a 2nd and (a future) 3rd round pick + get some prospects with NHL-upside in Chmelar, Robertsson and Sykora. The Blues are probably retooling for another 2/3 seasons before coming competitive again, the Goodrow contract expires when, hopefully, our next window of opportunity opens. Goodrow's final year, after paying his signing bonus, his actual salary is a lot lower than his caphit which puts him in a niche where he might be easy to trade to a team that needs to hit the minimal caphit but where the owner wants to pay as little as possible (for reference, see the Arizona/Ottawa Derek Stepan trade).

After these trades the team is in 'perfect shape' to go for a top-10 overall pick this season.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Snuggerud, Jimmy		3	$925,000

Trades

STL

Edstrom, David
Kärki, Arttu [Reserve List]
Korczak, Kaedan
2024 1st round pick (VGK)

VGK

Buchnevich, Pavel ($2,900,000 retained)
2024 3rd round pick (NYR)

STL

2025 4th round pick (TBL)

TBL

Scandella, Marco ($1,635,000 retained)

STL

Chmelar, Jaroslav [Reserve List]
Goodrow, Barclay
Robertson, Matthew
Sýkora, Adam
2024 2nd round pick (NYR)
2026 3rd round pick (NYR)

NYR

Retained Salary Transactions

Pavel Buchnevich: $2,900,000 (50%)
Marco Scandella: $1,635,000 (49.92%)

Buried

Jakub Vrána: $1,475,000 ($2,625,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$80,001,667	$20,000	$482,500	$3,498,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Neighbours, Jake $835,833$835,833 LW, RW RFA - 2	Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW UFA - 8	Kyrou, Jordan $8,125,000$8,125,000 RW UFA - 8
Bolduc, Zachary $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) LW RFA - 3	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 5	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 1
Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 3	Alexandrov, Nikita $816,667$816,667 C RFA - 1	Snuggerud, Jimmy $925,000$925,000 RW, C RFA
Walker, Nathan $775,000$775,000 LW UFA - 1	Goodrow, Barclay $3,641,667$3,641,667 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Toropchenko, Alexey $1,250,000$1,250,000 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
Perunovich, Scott $775,000$775,000 LD RFA - 1	Korczak, Kaedan $789,167$789,167 ($82,500$82K) RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Tucker, Tyler $800,000$800,000 LD/RD RFA - 2		MacEachern, Mackenzie $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Blais, Samuel $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1		Jacobs, Josh $775,000$775,000 RD UFA - 1
Gaudette, Adam $775,000$775,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Mar. 5 at 11:06 a.m.

mokumboi

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Goedemorgen. *** gaat het?

I have no comments on the trades, just wanted to speak Dutch.

Mar. 5 at 11:16 a.m.

Sagecoll

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Yeah it's a pass from the Rangers.

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Mar. 5 at 11:47 a.m.

noted

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I’m good with all this

Mar. 5 at 3:07 p.m.

Beauterham

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Quoting: mokumboi

Goedemorgen. *** gaat het?

I have no comments on the trades, just wanted to speak Dutch.

Goedenavond, hier alles goed hoor.

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Mar. 5 at 3:08 p.m.

Beauterham

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Quoting: Sagecoll

Yeah it's a pass from the Rangers.

Just wondering, is the price too high to dump Goodrow, not interested in taking back Hayes? If the first is the case, how would you change it?

Mar. 5 at 3:34 p.m.

Sagecoll

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Quoting: Beauterham

Just wondering, is the price too high to dump Goodrow, not interested in taking back Hayes? If the first is the case, how would you change it?

The Rangers actually make money buying out Goodrow next season and save money buying him out for the rest of their cup window. There's zero incentive for them to really pay anything more than like a late 3rd to send him away.

Hayes plays a pretty slow pace that doesn't really work in Lavi's quick counter style system. Beyond that, the market value for what he provides is not particularly high, again we're talking like a late 3rd/4th presuming half retention.

The sort of player that honestly makes sense for the team are good transitional guys that don't cost a ton. Where guys like Mika struggle is in transition so bringing high volume transition guys who can play C/W like Roslovic or Danforth makes sense.
Similar thing in the bottom 6. Bringing up Stankoven-lite Brett Berard should've been done months ago.

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