Blues Might Promote Off Gamers If They Are Not within the Playoff Image
Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic was on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio Energy Play Section with Steve Kouleas and Andrew Raycroft on Monday and was requested what’s the present course of the St. Louis Blues and do they contemplate themselves in a retool or rebuild.
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Andrew Raycroft: “Jeremy, are you able to first see any extra strikes occurring like how pressing is that this now that Montgomery is in St Louis to seek out that id, and if you’ll want to take items off the roster and transfer them round, is it? Is it that pressing there to do this?”
Jeremy Rutherford: “I believe that it’s no. It’s no secret Doug Armstrong desires to make the playoffs. Like they’re spending to the cap, they usually’re truly spending past the cap as a result of they’ve had the accidents, like with Torey Krug $6.5 million and others that they’re in LTIR and they also’re spending some huge cash to not make the playoffs.
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In order that’s, I believe, one of many causes, partly, you need to get the coach that you just consider is the man to be the coach right here in St Louis, Jim Montgomery. However you additionally need to make the playoffs. And I believe that’s why we noticed this factor occur so shortly whereas Montgomery was nonetheless out there.
But additionally, as a result of it’s late November, early December, you continue to have time to get again into that, that playoff image. So I believe we’re going to have to attend and see how the subsequent couple months unfold earlier than we will inform which course this goes. However I believe Doug Armstrong goes to proceed to make strikes which might be with type of the longer term in thoughts.
So for those who get to a scenario the place the Blues don’t seem like they’re that playoff staff that he hopes, I believe he’s going to need to unload no matter gamers can draw some curiosity. Whether or not a staff is in search of a Brandon Saad to be a third-line man for them, or, you recognize, if a Nick Leddy comes again wholesome and there’s any potential to maneuver him, I don’t assume they’re going to get quite a bit in return for the elements they’ve.
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It’s nothing like a number of years in the past once they had a Ryan O’Reilly, (Vladimir) Tarasenko these sorts of gamers. However I do assume that he’s going to maneuver ahead and he’s not going to offer away property. He’s not going to offer away picks. They’re nonetheless retooling this factor, however I believe if they’ve some gamers that draw some curiosity round that they might in all probability transfer that in the event that they aren’t in that playoff image.”
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