Armstrong gets tired of mediocrity

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Created by: Blues4Life

Team: 2024-25 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 12, 2024

Published: Apr. 12, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Re-sign Buchnevich to 5 years, $42.5 million ($8.5 AAV). Higher AAV for less years, Army learns lesson that not everyone needs 8 year contracts when they turn 30.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Perunovich, Scott		1	$1,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Lindholm, Elias	2	$7,000,000
Pesce, Brett	2	$4,000,000
Toffoli, Tyler	2	$4,000,000

Trades

STL

Orlov, Dmitry

CAR

Faulk, Justin

Additional Details:

Return Faulk to where he played the best and to replace Pesce. Orlov has high AAV for one year but didn't truly fit in with CAR. Allows them to attempt to re-sign Skej

STL

Chicago basically buys a first round pick. Krug can play top 4 minutes for them during their rebuild and in a couple years when they are closer, Krug will only have 1 year left and can be bought out or traded with retention. STL gives up 1st rounder because Krug is really a $4M AAV player.

CHI

Krug, Torey
2024 1st round pick (STL)

STL

2024 6th round pick (BOS)

BOS

Hayes, Kevin ($1,785,714 retained)

Retained Salary Transactions

Kevin Hayes: $1,785,714 (50%)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$87,500,000	$83,537,380	$0	$412,500	$3,962,620

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bolduc, Zachary $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) LW RFA - 2	Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW UFA - 7	Buchnevich, Pavel $5,800,000$5,800,000 LW, RW, C M-NTC UFA - 1
Neighbours, Jake $835,833$835,833 LW, RW RFA - 1	Lindholm, Elias $7,000,000$7,000,000 C, RW UFA	Kyrou, Jordan $8,125,000$8,125,000 RW UFA - 7
Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 2	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 4	Toffoli, Tyler $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW, LW UFA
Toropchenko, Alexey $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Dean, Zach $852,500$852,500 C RFA - 2	Sundqvist, Oskar $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, C UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Orlov, Dmitry $7,750,000$7,750,000 LD UFA - 1	Parayko, Colton $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 6	Binnington, Jordan $6,000,000$6,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Leddy, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD NTC UFA - 2	Pesce, Brett $4,000,000$4,000,000 RD UFA	Hofer, Joel $775,000$775,000 G RFA - 1
Perunovich, Scott $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD RFA	Kessel, Matthew $800,000$800,000 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Walker, Nathan $775,000$775,000 LW UFA - 2
Tucker, Tyler $800,000$800,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Apr. 12 at 9:24 a.m.

Celtics21

Joined: May 2023

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Don’t see Hayes as a fit in Boston. They should use free agency to acquire a top forward

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Apr. 12 at 9:34 a.m.

ecupirate07

Joined: Jun. 2020

Posts: 9,326

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Orlov fits just fine in Carolina. What are you going on about? Pass on overpaying for Faulk’s bad years as this skating deteriorates.

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Apr. 12 at 9:48 a.m.

Hawksguy81

Joined: Nov. 2022

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The Hawks top 4 on the left side is set w/ Vlasic and Korchinski. Plus they have Kaiser and DelMastro on the left side as well. And Krug's days of being a top 4 guy are behind him. His defensive play has fallen off a cliff the past 2 seasons. While the 1st would be nice to have, Krug fills no need at all for the Hawks. $20m is a lot to spend for a mid round 1st in a freakish draft. Hawks decline.

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Apr. 12 at 9:53 a.m.

Ryminister_92

Joined: May 2023

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Can’t see Krug waiving his full NTC for Chicago if he wouldn’t waive it for Philadelphia before

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Apr. 12 at 9:57 a.m.

StDetroitBlueWings

Joined: Feb. 2023

Posts: 600

Likes: 303

Not paying a first just to dump Krug

Just buy him out at that point

Apr. 12 at 10:29 a.m.

Tsmash

Joined: Feb. 2024

Posts: 223

Likes: 78

This teams is still mediocre

Apr. 12 at 8:20 p.m.

ethanwinters

Joined: May 2015

Posts: 360

Likes: 33

After Jimmy's time as a Bruin as what happened to Jimmy afterward, not sure if Kevin would want to come back home. Total speculation on the latter part, but the Hayes brothers did tell Vesey to stay away from playing for the home town team.

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