2024-2025 Blues Trade Proposals Thread.

[Stupendous Yappi]

They have a couple young guys I’d like in Holloway and Bro…

…oh wait.

Maybe we can get our 3rd back.

 

[StlBigFly]

Zero chance Tarasenko would want to come back. Also no real reason to bring him back or entertain a move like this at all so no it would never happen

If you were the blues gm

And you knew tarasenko had no choice because Detroit told him that he’s being bought out if he doesn’t waive.

And Detroit said take him and also a 2025 second round pick for free, replacing the one for Hayes. You pay nothing except having to fit him in for 1 year.

Would you?

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I don’t remember seeing you all talk about it:

What are thoughts on a deal with the wings where

They got something they wanted idk, binnington, Schenn, Kyrou, Toropchenko I don’t know, just something

And we ate tarasenko in order to juice the return, with the understanding we would rent him next trade deadline, or really asap - which prob is the tdl, if a market could be made for him.

Wonder if Tarasenko would come back, if we would have him back, what you all would think about that. I feel it’s a scenario that Detroit will have to pay to leave, and I’m in the business to be paid, so I could probably swallow it.

I am not following this at all. Tarasenko can come back to St Louis some day for a nice on-ice ceremony where we give him a lovely plaque signed by all the guys from the Cup team, maybe a Cup anniversary event. I'd cheer for him like crazy. But I can't see a scenario where this team is taking on a declining veteran player in a trade unless its dead salary coming back to offset the actual assets we obtain in a trade. Vlad probably still has some value to a playoff team as a supporting player.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I love Binnington and I don't necessarily want to see him go, but it makes sense to trade him if the return is suitable. The Blues look to be farther from true contender status. I would enjoy rooting for him on a team like Carolina, or even Edmonton. If he managed to get a 2nd Cup on another team, that's a pretty big feather in his cap.

 

[StlBigFly]

I am not following this at all. Tarasenko can come back to St Louis some day for a nice on-ice ceremony where we give him a lovely plaque signed by all the guys from the Cup team, maybe a Cup anniversary event. I'd cheer for him like crazy. But I can't see a scenario where this team is taking on a declining veteran player in a trade unless it’s dead salary coming back to offset the actual assets we obtain in a trade. Vlad probably still has some value to a playoff team as a supporting player.

I think the scenario I’m considering is one where your last sentence is different; an environment where both Detroit wanted to dump him and had nobody eager to be their huckleberry. Nobody willing to give up the space.

His situation is Saad. He’s got a year and too much money for the performance.

I doubt tarasenko will void his deal. Surprised when Saad did it. Would be super surprised if tarasenko did it.

If we made a big list of ways to get draft picks, each list item will have a downside. I’m having a hard time evaluating the real cost of the downside here. It’s a year, which, how bad could it possibly be I guess?… then it’s done. Kinda like how the penguins took on Kevin hayes. Isn’t the apocalypse. Things could be better. Bet they’ll be happier about it on draft day.

 

[Reality Czech]

For reals?!? Thought it was obvious. First, I AM funny and so therefore the cut of my jib was most sincere. A fellow poster has included among their reasons “he’s a dick” for wanting Binnington off the team. Which is hysterical because this poster was a MMA fighter at one time who immediately runs to the mods when someone else says something they don’t like or challenges them on their posts or most likely their tone.

I threw the too many dicks on the dance floor reference out there because someone else had just posted a Flight of the Conchords clip. Also, it was fun typing dick a lot.

Ok I get it now. You're right it is funny.

 

[Drubilly]

Ok I get it now. You're right it is funny.

 

[StlBigFly]

Binner + Texier for Talbot + Tarasenko + 1st + 2nd + 3rd next year?

Detroit upgrades goalie for a few years, removes a depth chart problem and gets a guy to test in the situation that is cheaper. Detroit also gets to adjust their roster without impacting their prospects or core (besides goalie ofc). Just clean tidy work where they “dip out of a weak draft and use other means to improve the club by acquiring guys they control” from their perspective.

Blues get the value of a 2nd round pick for eating tarasenko, a 3rd round pick for Texier, for whom we paid a 4th, and a 1st for Binner while also giving us a guy back who is not as good but is a goalie. We draft 3 times within the top 60, hopefully once in the top 7 or so, hopefully twice by 25.

Or, if you don’t think that it’s worth a 2nd and 3rd I think that’s maybe the right answer. It’s such a juggling act. Constant downside management.

Actually. I’d want next years second; this years third. Probably would make Detroit happier too.

I’d be happy with one deal like this. Everybody else stays from the big trade perspective. It increases the chance our 1st is good, it moves a guy who doesn’t align with our timeline for a positive return, but it does encumber us with a guy who may become a problem, maybe won’t be the best in the room, maybe won’t be productive, maybe will take icetime that we’d like to give to other people, maybe injures himself and retires on Ltir, maybe we buy him out the very next day, idk. We’d probably have to commit to both playing him and trying to move him. Lots of possible bad that scares me. Wings may have to pay to eject him for a reason and that reason becomes our problem, but I think we’ll probably be happy about it on draft day.

 

[ScratchCatFever]

my father-in-law had a doctor named Richard Head
every time my wife took her dad to see him, I was laughing to myself for half the day
for real
either his parents were completely clueless or they had a world class sense of humor

My old man's freshman year health class teacher was Richard Rash.

 

[ScratchCatFever]

I love Binnington and I don't necessarily want to see him go, but it makes sense to trade him if the return is suitable. The Blues look to be farther from true contender status. I would enjoy rooting for him on a team like Carolina, or even Edmonton. If he managed to get a 2nd Cup on another team, that's a pretty big feather in his cap.

This is pretty much where I stand. I hate to trade the guy who brought us our first cup, but if there's a good return for him I'd have a hard time holding onto him for nostalgic purposes when he'll be nearing the end of his prime by the time we're ready to hopefully go on a run. It would also be pretty awesome to see him help bring another team a cup and cement his legacy in the game as a clutch netminder who once threw a water bottle at a goon who tried to end his career.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

If Boston Really wanted to turn it around they would trade for Binner. He is amazing in Boston.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

No, because he too is a dick. The Blues are not going to trade one dick for another dick. Too many dicks on the dance floor.

This reminds me of a festival in Chicago.

Boys Town is along Halsted and is only two blocks from homo-erotic-frat-bleacher-boys Wrigley Field where there is the annual Sausage Fest along Sheffield.

my father-in-law had a doctor named Richard Head
every time my wife took her dad to see him, I was laughing to myself for half the day
for real
either his parents were completely clueless or they had a world class sense of humor

I knew a guy named Dick Lord.

 

[TruBlueFan1970]

I love Binnington and I don't necessarily want to see him go, but it makes sense to trade him if the return is suitable. The Blues look to be farther from true contender status. I would enjoy rooting for him on a team like Carolina, or even Edmonton. If he managed to get a 2nd Cup on another team, that's a pretty big feather in his cap.

If a suitable return, I would root for him, but not in EDM. Under no circumstance do I ever want McCrybaby and Drai to get a cup. Binner might put them over the top, so that’s a non starter for me.

 

[BlueMed]

I love Binnington and I don't necessarily want to see him go, but it makes sense to trade him if the return is suitable. The Blues look to be farther from true contender status. I would enjoy rooting for him on a team like Carolina, or even Edmonton. If he managed to get a 2nd Cup on another team, that's a pretty big feather in his cap.

I would be surprised to see Binner finished his contract here. I think his main value is allowing Hofer to gradually increase his workload in proportion to his development. If Binner win's the IIHF championship this summer and then the Olympic gold with Canada next year in 2026, his value would be at an all-time high going into next year's trade deadline. That's when I would trade him.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

I would be surprised to see Binner finished his contract here. I think his main value is allowing Hofer to gradually increase his workload in proportion to his development. If Binner win's the IIHF championship this summer and then the Olympic gold with Canada next year in 2026, his value would be at an all-time high going into next year's trade deadline. That's when I would trade him.

Binner's value is currently at an all-time high, so sell asap. He may flounder in the Olympics, but we know for sure he won Canada the 4 Nations tournament.

I think now is the time to trade Binnington and Carolina appears to be a good partner. Philly? No.

 

[Mike Liut]

I’d take a 1st for Binner and Schenn. Neither fit our window and trading both would help our tank massively.

 

[BlueMed]

Binner's value is currently at an all-time high, so sell asap. He may flounder in the Olympics, but we know for sure he won Canada the 4 Nations tournament.

I think now is the time to trade Binnington and Carolina appears to be a good partner. Philly? No.

I'm not necessarily opposed, but the timing of the trade would have to take into consideration Hofer's development to some extent.