25-26 Beginning of the End of the Retool

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Created by: BDHockey

Team: 2025-26 St. Louis Blues

Initial Creation Date: May 14, 2024

Published: May 14, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Books don't look too bad. Tried to do this with minimal trades to show the path of internal growth. I do expect some smaller moves though in the next few retool seasons.

Few Notes*
-Kevin Hayes could very well be traded rather than bought out, but by 25-26 he should be off the roster.
-If we draft Adam Jiricek in 2024 he will most likely not be ready by 25-26, he might not even be ready for 26-27. I moreso did it to illustrate what I think could be a very solid middle pair for us.
- Buchnevich probably should be traded if Neighbours continues to grow next seasons. We have lots of depth for our forward position and Buch could be turned into a little bit of value for our defense. I signed him for this ACGM because it can be hard to decide what kind of return he would get.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Snuggerud, Jimmy		2	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hofer, Joel	2	$2,300,000
Neighbours, Jake	2	$4,000,000
Toropchenko, Alexey	2	$2,500,000
Perunovich, Scott	1	$1,750,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Buchnevich, Pavel		5	$8,125,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Jiricek, Adam		3	$975,000

Trades

STL

Future Considerations

ARI

Krug, Torey ($3,250,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Any team after NTC becomes M-NTC

Buyouts

Kevin Hayes: $2,238,096

Retained Salary Transactions

Torey Krug: $3,250,000 (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
24	$92,000,000	$84,814,762	$0	$1,282,500	$7,185,238

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bolduc, Zachary $863,333$863,333 ($425,000$425K) LW RFA - 1	Thomas, Robert $8,125,000$8,125,000 C, RW NTC UFA - 6	Snuggerud, Jimmy $950,000$950,000 RW, C RFA
Buchnevich, Pavel $8,125,000$8,125,000 LW, RW, C UFA	Dvorsky, Dalibor $918,333$918,333 ($800,000$800K) C RFA - 2	Kyrou, Jordan $8,125,000$8,125,000 RW NTC UFA - 6
Schenn, Brayden $6,500,000$6,500,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Stenberg, Otto $950,000$950,000 C RFA - 2	Neighbours, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW RFA
Toropchenko, Alexey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW RFA	Sundqvist, Oskar $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, C UFA - 1	Dean, Zach $852,500$852,500 C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Leddy, Nick $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1	Parayko, Colton $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD NTC UFA - 5	Binnington, Jordan $6,000,000$6,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Lindstein, Theo $950,000$950,000 LD RFA - 2	Jiricek, Adam $975,000$975,000	Hofer, Joel $2,300,000$2,300,000 G RFA
Perunovich, Scott $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD RFA	Faulk, Justin $6,500,000$6,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Saad, Brandon $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Walker, Nathan $775,000$775,000 LW UFA - 1
Robertsson, Simon $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) RW RFA - 2
Kessel, Matthew $800,000$800,000 RD RFA - 1

May 14 at 1:23 p.m.

palhal

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Joined: Jul. 2015

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Since Krug has only eight teams he can traded too, he certainly isn't going to have a poor team with cap on his trade list
He'll just name eight good teams....who probably don't want him anyway, o4 because they have their cap issues.......Tampa, Florida, Canes, Rangers, Dallas, Detroit, Leafs, Buffalo, and the more.
"Any team" is highly unlikely

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May 14 at 1:30 p.m.

Blues4Life

Joined: Jun. 2016

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Quoting: palhal

Krug submits 15 team no-trade list starting July 1, 2025. So will have more than half the league to trade him to. I'd assume Canadian teams are on the list along with rebuilders like San Jose.

May 14 at 2:03 p.m.

BDHockey

Thread Starter

Joined: Nov. 2023

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Quoting: palhal

Its a 15 team list. I would assume he blocks out all of the Canadian teams regardless of their competiveness or contract structure. You're right that it still isn't likely that there is a trade to be had, but it certainly becomes way more possible than it currently is.

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