The St. Louis Blues will look to address this in a few areas
Jeremy Rutherford from The Athletic: St. Louis Blues team works with him Pavel Bukhnevich In the center but he needs to improve the draw if he is to stay there next season. If he plays center, they’ll save the salary cap space from having to go out and find one during free agency.
straight ahead Sammy Place He’s had an offensive attack since reacquiring him at the deadline as he continues his physical game. The Blues can look to re-sign him around the $1 million mark.
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Alexei Toropchenko And will come back Nathan Walker He will likely return. Re-signed UFA forward Tyler Petlik It would make sense, but if they caught a striker in their top nine strikers, it could push Blaice into the fourth line and one Toropchenko, Walker and Pitlick out of the fourth line.
Will the Blues be able to reconfigure some of their blue line? Battles can include the following 5-7 points Callie RosenAnd Robert BortuzzoAnd Marco ScandellaAnd Tyler TuckerAnd Scott PeronovichMatt Kessel W Dmitry Samorokov. Tucker, Rosen and Perunovich could be the frontrunners.
Keys offseason for the St. Louis Blues
ESPN’s Ryan S Clark and Kristen Shelton: Consider some of the unofficial decisions and priorities of the St. Louis Blues this offseason.
Projected space 2023-24: $4,969,583
2023 draft picks: Three first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh
Does not include Jordan Kerro And Robert ThomasThe Blues have seven players who make more than $4 million and have two or more years on their contracts.
Four of those seven are defensemen – Justin VolkAnd Tore KrugAnd Nick Lady And Colton Parayko.
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