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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 6, 2018 at 4:20 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 1, 2018 at 10:05 a.m.
Thread: Draisaitl to the Blues
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JackBurton</b></div><div>I will admit, I have no idea who Thomas, R. is but I have a feeling he'll be pestering Crawford if what you say is true... So the Thomas thing aside, while Parayko is probably the defensive stud find of the last decade, we are talking about Leon Draisaitl here... The guy is ******* amazing... Let's say we change up the prospect to someone who isn't as good as this Thomas guy is, is it still that unreasonable?</div></div>

The price would probably be Parayko and a pick (doubtful a first but maybe) or Parayko and a B level prospect. It’s not that Drai isn’t worth more, just that if we trade Parayko, we have a huge hole at RD. We just can’t sacrifice too much while also creating a different need.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 23, 2018 at 4:59 p.m.
Thread: Tavares
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bruinsdiehard</b></div><div>Lol nice cherry picking there. At 33 and 31, I'm not worried about Burns and Vlasic especially considering they are defensemen. The truth is that yes, with Kane, SJ is still a young/competitive/contending team, whatever you want to call it. Couture is only 29. The emergence of Meir and Hertl who are in their early 20s, along with a potential Tavares, and a good goalie who is cost-effective and only 28...I'd take SJ's situation over a lot of other teams in this league.</div></div>

The Blues will be a serious cup contender with JT, could afford to give him 12m per, and have a much younger core than SJS. Just saying, San Jose is a decent place for him to go, but there are plenty of contenders out there that can and probably will give him more than 11m per.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 16, 2018 at 2:38 p.m.
Thread: Deals with MIN and STL
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TML_GM</b></div><div>Good to know the value placed on Fabbri from the STL perspective, that isn't what I was thinking. For me, his injury problems lower his value. I would take him out of the deal entirely if required. But it sounds like you want to hold on to Parayko regardless. I had noticed a trend of STL fans trading him on the boards, so I assumed he might be up for grabs. Any other STL fans have opinions?</div></div>

Like mentioned previously, we just don’t have the blue line depth to trade Parayko. Everyone just jumped on here after missing the playoffs thinking about nothing but adding scoring and getting rid of Allen. We need to keep our D together for any shot of competing until at least the Petro contract is up. Then who knows what will happen. He’s too valuable to us at this point plus I’m scared to death to trade him and see him become a (potential) Norris candidate in 4 years.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 7, 2018 at 4:56 p.m.
Thread: Babcock wins out over Matthews
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BeastModeUnknown</b></div><div>Okay let's say the Blues trade Parayko for Matthews. yea you gain a Center, but you just f-u-c-k-e-d up your Defense. Bouwmeester is easily a top 4 defenseman. Berglund is a top 9 forward. Walman top 4 potential prospect. Ivan Barbashev a top 6 potential. Sobotka top 9 right now. Steener maybe he can be a top 3 guy at center. 4 picks. Jaskin top 9 forward speed. 3 to 4 picks. I would even add bortuzzo, or Gunnarsson, or Edmundson. That is not a lowball. Your not giving credit for what berglund can do also it wouldn't be Berglund on the first line anyway. Nazem Kadri would easily have his first line back.</div></div>

I’m just gonna agree to disagree here. I can only hope our guys play half as good as you value them next year.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 7, 2018 at 2:39 p.m.
Thread: Babcock wins out over Matthews
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BeastModeUnknown</b></div><div>But not Parayko. okay then Walman top D prospect, Jaskin good third liner forward, Bouwmeester a good patch for now, Berglund replacing Matthews, First Round, Second Round, Third Round and another First Round. Unless you want Fabbri, or Steener</div></div>

Dude. What? You really think sending a bunch of trash and 4 picks will get you a franchise caliber top line centerman? Yeah Walman may be the Blues top D prospect, but he is not a “top D prospect” across the league. I’m not even going to begin to talk about “Berglund replacing Matthews”. Woof. I agree with <a href="/users/BluesBandit" target="_blank">@BluesBandit</a> If losing Parayko + were to get us Matthews. Done.