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Created by: A_K

Team: 2025-26 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 23, 2024

Published: May 1, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Stats per @STLBluesViews on X:

St. Louis Blues five-on-five ranks in 2023-24:

27th in GF/60 (2.27)
18th in GA/60 (2.54)
27th in xGF/60 (2.38)
28th in xGA/60 (2.91)

26th in GF% (47.1%)
28th in SF% (45.6%)
29th in CF% (45.1%)
30th in xGF% (44.9%)

8th in SV% (.921)
4th in GSAx (+24.61)

Let's say they go the draft and trade Binnington and sign a guy like Talbot or Vanecek to be the 1A in front of Hofer; trade Buchnevich for futures and keep Bannister for another year. So 2024-25 looks something like:

Neighbours-Thomas-Kyrou
Bolduc-Schenn-Saad
Toropchenko-Hayes-Sylvegard
Walker-Alexandrov-Sundqvist

Leddy-Parayko
Krug-Kessel
Perunovich-Faulk

Talbot
Hofer

With below average goaltending, plus the natural progression of some rebuilders below them in standings, chances are they finish bottom 5-ish Then give me some lottery luck and James Hagens. Now Snuggerud, Dvorsky, Lindstein, etc are coming in - plus a couple more 1st round selections - and the money is there for some big signings. Re-tool over?

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Snuggerud, Jimmy	2	$950,000
Pekarcik, Juraj	3	$950,000
Stenberg, Otto	3	$950,000
Kaskimäki, Aleksanteri	3	$950,000
Koromyslov, Arseni	2	$950,000
Burns, Quinton	3	$950,000
Stancl, Jakub	3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Perunovich, Scott	1	$1,125,000
Toropchenko, Alexey	1	$1,250,000
Neighbours, Jake	7	$6,000,000
Hofer, Joel	1	$2,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Theodore, Shea		7	$10,000,000
Thompson, Logan		5	$5,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hagens, James		3	$950,000

Trades

STL

Akey, Beau
2024 2nd round pick (EDM)
2025 1st round pick (EDM)

EDM

Buchnevich, Pavel (50% retained)
at 2024 draft

STL

2024 1st round pick (TOR)

Additional Details:

23oa

TOR

Binnington, Jordan
2024 2nd round pick (STL)

Additional Details:

48oa

STL

Keller, Clayton

ARI

Saad, Brandon
Stenberg, Otto
2025 1st round pick (EDM)
2026 1st round pick (STL)

Buyouts

Torey Krug: $2,083,333

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$89,500,000	$86,488,928	$0	$1,225,000	$3,011,072

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Keller, Clayton $7,150,000$7,150,000 LW, RW NTC UFA - 3	Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW NTC UFA - 6	Snuggerud, Jimmy $950,000$950,000 RW, C RFA
Neighbours, Jake $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW RFA	Hagens, James $950,000$950,000	Kyrou, Jordan $8,125,000$8,125,000 RW NTC UFA - 6
Bolduc, Zachary $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) LW RFA - 1	Dvorsky, Dalibor $918,333$918,333 ($800,000$800K) C RFA - 2	Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Toropchenko, Alexey $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW RFA	Dean, Zach $852,500$852,500 C RFA - 1	Sundqvist, Oskar $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Theodore, Shea $10,000,000$10,000,000 LD/RD UFA	Parayko, Colton $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 5	Thompson, Logan $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA
Leddy, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Faulk, Justin $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Hofer, Joel $2,000,000$2,000,000 G RFA
Lindstein, Theo $950,000$950,000 LD RFA - 2	Kessel, Matthew $800,000$800,000 RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Walker, Nathan $775,000$775,000 LW UFA - 1
Hayes, Kevin $3,571,429$3,571,429 C M-NTC UFA - 1
Perunovich, Scott $1,125,000$1,125,000 LD RFA

May 1 at 11:03 a.m.

MitchJr

Joined: Jan. 2023

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Leafs can’t afford Binnington’s cap hit. Leafs don’t have the luxury of committing that much $ to goalie position. And it’s too much to spend on an inconsistent goalie anyway; good year in 2023 but coming off a few down years. Position is voodoo for 95% of nhl goalies

May 1 at 11:08 a.m.

A_K

Thread Starter

Lets Go Blues

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Quoting: MitchJr

I agree with you about the voodoo, and honestly the Blues might get poor goaltending results by keeping their same tandem. But I do think teams will poke around on Binnington after his performance this year, maybe not Leafs.

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May 1 at 11:10 a.m.

MitchJr

Joined: Jan. 2023

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Quoting: A_K

Could be - a lot of teams (Avs, Devils, Sens) to name a few need goalie upgrade. The $6M ticket may be tough to move though

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May 1 at 1:10 p.m.

Away

Joined: Sep. 2021

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Quoting: MitchJr

He really only had one bad year and one bad playoff series

Otherwise he’s been great

May 1 at 1:16 p.m.

MitchJr

Joined: Jan. 2023

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Quoting: Away

He really only had one bad year and one bad playoff series

Otherwise he’s been great

He’s had a good year, but hard to argue 2021-22 or 2022-23 weren’t down years (GAA >3.0, sv% of 0.901 & 0.894 & negative saves above expected) . Just personal opinion - very few goalies deserve term and aav > $3.0M; performance is too variable for 95-98% of nhl goalies.

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May 1 at 1:27 p.m.

Away

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Quoting: MitchJr

That’s very fair, I will say those two years our defense was a black hole, but 21 he was good, just hung out to dry at least once a game usually more

Last year, year he let in way to many softies

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