2024-2025 Blues Trade Proposals Thread.

[Frenzy31]

I agree with this assessment. Army sounds like he isn't pleased with the leadership group and your captain is certainly a big part of the leadership group.

I really like what I know of Schenn the person. He is very well respected around the league and is by all accounts great with the young guys. He's been a fantastic mentor for Neighbours. I think his leadership in terms of teaching young guys how to be good pros has been excellent.

But I'm not sure that he's been an effective leader for the game-to-game grind of a regular season.

Schenn has always frustrated me with his extended stretches of completely unimpactful play. I respect the way he ups his physicality to try and pull himself out of these slumps, but the flip side of that coin is that I think he too often needs the fight or big hit to get himself into games. This team comes out flat way too often and I can't help but wonder if that is in part a reflection of everyone waiting for something to draw them into the fight.

I do think it is worth remembering that Army was originally talking about not having a captain for 2023/24 before Schenn was named captain in training camp. Berube got fired a few months later and then Bannister got fired a year later. Slow starts and late-game collapses persist. Schenn has been awful in the last 7 games while the season has completely slipped away. I'm not saying that Schenn as the C is the problem, but I could see Army being ready to move on from it.

I know it is fun to dunk on Kyrou, but there is a reason that line really clicked when he was on it and has been a bit silent when he left.

I will be honest, I am not sold on adding another D at this point. I would much rather seek a difference maker on the O side of things. We have a lot of young guys, but no real game breaker and that is something we lack.

 

[BadgersandBlues]

I thought Dobson struggles in his own end; which is why the Isles have no interest in signing him to a mega-deal. I don’t watch the Isles much, as I’m not a masochist, but I was under the impression that he was Bouchard-esque.

It's a fair question - I think he's improved significantly over the last few years. His xGF% has risen from 47.19 to 53.29 over the last four seasons (Including this one)

and over the last four years, outside of 22-23, he hasn't really been sheltered, getting about 50% ozone starts and faceoffs (Years match up to the chart above):

His xGA/60 over 2021-2024 was 2.74, which was slightly better then Ryan Pulock, who was a 2.78. This year, Dobson has an xGA/60 of 2.26. For reference, Parayko has an xGA/60 of 2.74 and 2.53 in those same brackets (With much more difficult zone start splits).

In every season of his career, including his rookie year, Dobson has outscored opponents at 5v5:

I'm pretty sure he's the real deal if we can sign him to a contract that makes sense.

 

[TruBlueFan1970]

Agreed. You are taxed when you make money, when you spend money on goods or property, when you own property (every year), when you receive money you paid into SS. How many times are they going to tax the same dollar!!! This is why we had a tea party in this country!!!

Don't forget that if you happen to penny pinch enough to save/invest some money, you get taxed on the interest, dividends and capital gains. Pretty much a minimum of 4 times that each dollar of earnings get taxed.

 

[TruBlueFan1970]

I have a hard time believing that Schenn will be traded. If he were though, and they were interested, I would be looking at a guy like Brandon Carlo on defense. Would really help fill out RHD and locked in at $4.1 million for a few more seasons. Big, physical and more of a Dman than an offensive force, but that's where Broberg should be grooming towards. Just don't realistically see the Bruins being a buyer vs seller given their current standing. He's a guy I would look at over the summer though.