2024-2025 Blues Trade Proposals Thread.

[Blueswin]

Broberg and Holloway keep showing why the Blues poached them from the Oilers last summer | TSN

Philip Broberg scored twice and Dylan Holloway got his 18th goal of the season in a 5-2 victory at the Washington Capitals on Thursday night that keeps them right on the edge of the playoff race in the Western Conference.

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[bleedblue1223]

I think JR gets more grief from fans then deserved, but what he just put in the Athletic article went over my head.

NHL trade deadline 2025: Which player (or pick) each team is most likely to deal​

St. Louis Blues​

Zack Bolduc, RW​

To be clear, I don’t think Bolduc will be traded before the deadline, or even this summer. But the Blues aren’t trading prospects Dalibor Dvorsky or Jimmy Snuggerud, and they don’t have many draft picks (only a first-rounder, a fifth and a sixth this year, and no seconds for the next three drafts). I don’t think the Blues want to move Bolduc, but he’s got potential and might be the player other clubs are asking about. It would make much more sense for the Blues to keep prospects such as Bolduc while the retool continues. — Jeremy Rutherford

The exercise from each pundit is to guess which player or pick is most likely to be traded. His first sentence is, I don't think Bolduc will be traded, now or in the summer. He further illustrates it makes more sense for the Blues to keep him.

I'm so confused.

Yeah, if it was a pick a dark horse to be traded or make a bold prediction, I could see it. I could absolutely see Bolduc being used if we pursue some young NHL player that is more advanced, someone in that 23-25 age range. But, for a most likely, just put Suter or Faksa and call it a day.

 

[bleedblue1223]

 

[LetsGoBooze]

Dont hate it, prefer a different buyer with one appealing prospect, that more fits our needs/wants.

 

[PeoriaBlues309]

I think JR gets more grief from fans then deserved, but what he just put in the Athletic article went over my head.

NHL trade deadline 2025: Which player (or pick) each team is most likely to deal​

St. Louis Blues​

Zack Bolduc, RW​

To be clear, I don’t think Bolduc will be traded before the deadline, or even this summer. But the Blues aren’t trading prospects Dalibor Dvorsky or Jimmy Snuggerud, and they don’t have many draft picks (only a first-rounder, a fifth and a sixth this year, and no seconds for the next three drafts). I don’t think the Blues want to move Bolduc, but he’s got potential and might be the player other clubs are asking about. It would make much more sense for the Blues to keep prospects such as Bolduc while the retool continues. — Jeremy Rutherford

The exercise from each pundit is to guess which player or pick is most likely to be traded. His first sentence is, I don't think Bolduc will be traded, now or in the summer. He further illustrates it makes more sense for the Blues to keep him.

I'm so confused.

I don’t see why trading Bolduc is this crazy thought. He’s always been the one prospect I could see Doug moving in a package for an upgrade.

 

[bleedblue1223]

I don’t see why trading Bolduc is this crazy thought. He’s always been the one prospect I could see Doug moving in a package for an upgrade.

That's not the issue. It's that the point of the article was, who is the player most likely to be traded, and this was his first sentence. He's clearly saying he doesn't think it's likely that Bolduc is going to be traded.

To be clear, I don’t think Bolduc will be traded before the deadline, or even this summer.

 

[Stealth JD]

By nature, I'm 100% not a conspiracy theorist, but something last night caught my ear. Did anyone listen to the postgame interview with Schenn? It was weird that near the end of the interview he said, and I'm paraphrasing a bit as I don't remember the exact words: "I wanted to say thanks for the way you have always treated me". Almost as if he expected that he might get moved. Also, could just be that they were complimentary of his dad with him having the opportunity to announce the lineups. Who knows, but it just struck me as odd. Probably nothing, but curious if anyone else heard the interview.

Well...it was his 1000th game played in the NHL, so it probably had something to do with that.

 

[BleedBlue14]

I think JR gets more grief from fans then deserved, but what he just put in the Athletic article went over my head.

NHL trade deadline 2025: Which player (or pick) each team is most likely to deal​

St. Louis Blues​

Zack Bolduc, RW​

To be clear, I don’t think Bolduc will be traded before the deadline, or even this summer. But the Blues aren’t trading prospects Dalibor Dvorsky or Jimmy Snuggerud, and they don’t have many draft picks (only a first-rounder, a fifth and a sixth this year, and no seconds for the next three drafts). I don’t think the Blues want to move Bolduc, but he’s got potential and might be the player other clubs are asking about. It would make much more sense for the Blues to keep prospects such as Bolduc while the retool continues. — Jeremy Rutherford

The exercise from each pundit is to guess which player or pick is most likely to be traded. His first sentence is, I don't think Bolduc will be traded, now or in the summer. He further illustrates it makes more sense for the Blues to keep him.

I'm so confused.

I get where he's coming from in this, but it's going to put out a notion that the Blues are looking to move him, not he may be available if a piece positionally the Blues need more becomes available.

The italicized part is A+ journalism Pick a flashier name for an exercise that's a bit out of left field, then walk back on now I don't think it's something that's going to happen, but it could, but it probably would, but I'd sure be suprised.

 

[PeoriaBlues309]

That's not the issue. It's that the point of the article was, who is the player most likely to be traded, and this was his first sentence. He's clearly saying he doesn't think it's likely that Bolduc is going to be traded.

I wish he’d stay away from anything trade wise, and just stick to the few things he’s actually good at.

 

[bleedblue1223]

The Athletic: Hey JR, can you do an article for the player you think the Blues are mostly likely to trade at the deadline?

JR: Absolutely, I got just the player in mind.

The Athletic: Great, put something together, we need it out in a few days.

JR: Sure thing, it'll be Bolduc, but I don't think the Blues will trade him at the deadline or over the summer.

The Athletic: Wait, what?

 

[StlBigFly]

Interesting that JR’s guess is more of a buying scenario than a selling scenario.

it’s pretty trendy/easy to … fire off a conservative guess at the team selling a veteran at the deadline - you’ve got the support of tsn and sportsnets trade bait boards. Takes a little more cohones to go against the grain and guess a buy.

 

[Spektre]

The Athletic: Hey JR, can you do an article for the player you think the Blues are mostly likely to trade at the deadline?

JR: Absolutely, I got just the player in mind.

The Athletic: Great, put something together, we need it out in a few days.

JR: Sure thing, it'll be Bolduc, but I don't think the Blues will trade him at the deadline or over the summer.

The Athletic: Wait, what?

yeah... still confused

 

[BlueDream]

I get where he's coming from in this, but it's going to put out a notion that the Blues are looking to move him, not he may be available if a piece positionally the Blues need more becomes available.

The italicized part is A+ journalism Pick a flashier name for an exercise that's a bit out of left field, then walk back on now I don't think it's something that's going to happen, but it could, but it probably would, but I'd sure be suprised.

You do? Because I still don’t.

That’s one of the worst pieces of journalism I’ve ever seen. At the very least, he could have explained how the Blues need a center more than a winger and how Bolduc could be used in a package for that or something, but he couldn’t even muster up the tiniest bit of logic to justify his own selection.

Man, it must be nice to be JR and get paid for his job because it looks super easy.

 

[BleedBlue14]

You do? Because I still don’t.

That’s one of the worst pieces of journalism I’ve ever seen. At the very least, he could have explained how the Blues need a center more than a winger and how Bolduc could be used in a package for that or something, but he couldn’t even muster up the tiniest bit of logic to justify his own selection.

Man, it must be nice to be JR and get paid for his job because it looks super easy.

I take it as a if there’s a player/prospect in a similar situation that better fits their needs Bolduc could be on the move.

 

[Majorityof1]

You do? Because I still don’t.

That’s one of the worst pieces of journalism I’ve ever seen. At the very least, he could have explained how the Blues need a center more than a winger and how Bolduc could be used in a package for that or something, but he couldn’t even muster up the tiniest bit of logic to justify his own selection.

Man, it must be nice to be JR and get paid for his job because it looks super easy.

It's not easy. It's just that journalism is no longer about how good, accurate, in-depth the content is. And it's not news or analysis, it's content. Just like a Tik toker. What's important is how much traffic you can drive. The headline is more important than the story. "Most likely to be traded: Zach Boluc." Subscribe to find out why

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

It's not easy. It's just that journalism is no longer about how good, accurate, in-depth the content is. And it's not news or analysis, it's content. Just like a Tik toker. What's important us how much traffic you can drive. The headline is more important than the story. "Most likely to be traded: Zach Boluc." Subscribe to find out why

It's a damn shame, too.

 

[CoMoBlues]

You do? Because I still don’t.

That’s one of the worst pieces of journalism I’ve ever seen. At the very least, he could have explained how the Blues need a center more than a winger and how Bolduc could be used in a package for that or something, but he couldn’t even muster up the tiniest bit of logic to justify his own selection.

Man, it must be nice to be JR and get paid for his job because it looks super easy.

The thing that always jumps out to me is that JR has all the information to make a good decision, then writes another head scratcher. Strickland can be like that some as well, but not to the extent of JR’s fever dream musings.

 

[StlBigFly]

Imma give JR the benefit of the doubt (for no good reason)

Please don your tinfoils for this monologue on human motivation:

Perhaps jr has been informed we’re big game hunting. Maybe you don’t want the guy who is selling his thing to know you like the thing, or maybe you’re so unsure you’ll be the victor that you need to keep it under wraps.

If you didn’t have any inside info, and just had to write an article…as many of you have pointed out; you could make something up and/or provide some substance? Like we all do here? For fun/free? Part of making stuff up is…the making stuff up part. So when you specifically don’t make a bunch of stuff up it’s sus. it’s also super easy to just follow the herd. Pick an obvious selling target and go with that, you’d align with nearly every Canadian reporter.

So many easy, lazy choices. Hell if you were going to just mail it in you could slide through Reddit and here, copy paste a few threads into chat gpt, “borrow” enough ideas have ai write some article you don’t care about, spend 15 minutes re-writing it. easy.

Bolduc is not a lazy choice. It’s weirdly specific. “We’d trade him cause we wanna fleece the other guys out of player X” isn’t probably a good way for JR to present the situation at this stage.

(Plz let it be Marchand)