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 Phase with Steve Kouleas and Andrew Raycroft on Monday and was requested what’s the present path of the St. Louis Blues and do they think about 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 identification, and if that you must take items off the roster and transfer them round, is it? Is it that pressing there to try this?”
Jeremy Rutherford: “I feel that it’s no. It’s no secret Doug Armstrong needs to make the playoffs. Like they’re spending to the cap, and so they’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 feel, one of many causes, partially, you need to get the coach that you just imagine is the man to be the coach right here in St Louis, Jim Montgomery. However you additionally need to make the playoffs. And I feel that’s why we noticed this factor occur so shortly whereas Montgomery was nonetheless obtainable.
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 feel we’re going to have to attend and see how the following couple months unfold earlier than we will inform which path this goes. However I feel Doug Armstrong goes to proceed to make strikes which might be with sort of the longer term in thoughts.
So if you happen to get to a scenario the place the Blues don’t appear like they’re that playoff crew that he hopes, I feel he’s going to should unload no matter gamers can draw some curiosity. Whether or not a crew is on the lookout for 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 lots in return for the elements they’ve.
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It’s nothing like a number of years in the past after 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 provide away property. He’s not going to provide away picks. They’re nonetheless retooling this factor, however I feel if they’ve some gamers that draw some curiosity round that they might most likely transfer that in the event that they aren’t in that playoff image.”
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