2024-2025 Blues Trade Proposals Thread.

[ChicagoBlues]

5 years. He should be on the up swing I think.

Small increments of improvements, but I have lost faith that he can make Detroit a winner again.

He is going to have to show some flexibility.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

I've been noodling on a potential trade with Detroit. That team is a mess. They seem likely to want to shake things up. Army was scouting them last week. So..

Joe Veleno is someone who has fallen out of favor there, and not undeserved. But he has good size, seems like he gets around okay, and can play center. He is basically same age and has same contract as Texier. That feels like the basis of a trade to me., with maybe a late pick thrown in.

Thoughts?

 

[bleedblue1223]

Probably scouting for Canada, but I guess Velano or Rasmussen wouldn't shock me.

 

[StlBigFly]

Just wanted to share some tin foil hat level stuff with yall.

Minnesota doesn’t have the missing draft picks we do.

But when you look at the completed trade for Jiricek, it involves the picks we do have available - and it seems odd to negotiate for a 2nd 2 years from now unless you had to.

I’m okay accepting it’s a coincidence, but it paints the picture that the Blues were the offer to beat, it was shopped around, and something like Columbus liking the defensive prospect options from Minnesota tipped the scales.

If that is the case, it would indicate the 1st is less than untouchable.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

Probably scouting for Canada, but I guess Velano or Rasmussen wouldn't shock me.

I thought about that, but the game he was there the only candidate was Weegar. So maybe. And that isn't as fun to speculate on.

 

[bleedblue1223]

You're reading too much into it. The value of our pick this year is way more than the value of Minnesota's pick. If season ended today, ours would be 11th and Minnesota's would be 28th.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

Just wanted to share some tin foil hat level stuff with yall.

Minnesota doesn’t have the missing draft picks we do.

But when you look at the completed trade for Jiricek, it involves the picks we do have available - and it seems odd to negotiate for a 2nd 2 years from now unless you had to.

I’m okay accepting it’s a coincidence, but it paints the picture that the Blues were the offer to beat, it was shopped around, and something like Columbus liking the defensive prospect options from Minnesota tipped the scales.

If that is the case, it would indicate the 1st is less than untouchable.

Our 1st would be MUCH more valuable than Wild's, which makes me doubt that we offered it.

 

[Reality Czech]

Our 1st would be MUCH more valuable than Wild's, which makes me doubt that we offered it.

Yes, if the Blues put their first on the table it had better be for a sure thing, which Jiricek is not. Minnesota is making a calculated risk, but they are in a better position than us to take that risk. If Jiricek fulfils expectations, then it's a great move for them. If he doesn't, then Columbus will be quite happy with this return.

 

[bleedblue1223]

With Suter's play, I wonder what he'll get at the deadline.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

With Suter's play, I wonder what he'll get at the deadline.

Would be hilarious if we dealt him with retention to Colorado or Winnipeg. He would then be getting paid by 4 of the 8 Central teams!

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I've been noodling on a potential trade with Detroit. That team is a mess. They seem likely to want to shake things up. Army was scouting them last week. So..

Joe Veleno is someone who has fallen out of favor there, and not undeserved. But he has good size, seems like he gets around okay, and can play center. He is basically same age and has same contract as Texier. That feels like the basis of a trade to me., with maybe a late pick thrown in.

Thoughts?

My thoughts are that everyone is going to fall out of favor at some point in Detroit, including Steve Yzerman.

 

[Reality Czech]

With Suter's play, I wonder what he'll get at the deadline.

Can't see us getting a 1st or anything like that, but perhaps a (likely low) 2nd or B/C prospect? The way he's playing, he deserves one more shot with a contender before he most likely hangs them up. Then again, he could probably play next year if he really wants to. Gotta give him credit for the way he's battled this year.

 

[StlBigFly]

I was bored and decided to go draft by draft. If Doug Armstrong is hunting an age range I’ll go look there.

There’s so many borderline untouchable guys I’d pay market price for: Connor mcmichael, Seth Jarvis.

But then I got to the 2022 draft.

It is wild how many players have been traded from this draft class already.

But going from 2017-2022’s first rounds: I don’t really see anybody that jumps out to me as something the Blues would be able to do or would look to do. A few interesting cases (Ostlund) have injuries that are taking awhile.

I’m guessing Utah will have to move a few younger guys because they quite simply have too many, but I don’t see anything there that really jumps out.

 

[bleedblue1223]

I'm honestly not too sure what positions we'd really be targeting, if any right now. While Dvorsky and Snuggerud aren't guaranteed spots, if Army is reasonably projecting a top 9 forward group that we have mid-season next year, it's already full of players in our org. Thomas, Buchnevich, Kyrou, Schenn, Holloway, and Neighbours are already locks. Then you have Bolduc, Dvorksy, Snuggerud, and Saad creating a group of 10. Leaving Saad in just to show that we still have the vets on the roster to not hand young players a spot.

So, while offense is absolutely a need, the additions in my view will be mostly internal when Dvorsky and Snuggerud are ready, and Bolduc futher develops.

I don't see much change on defense either.