2024-2025 Blues Trade Proposals Thread.

[The Note]

Probably an exercise in futility, but if there was interest, I wonder if we could get John Tavares to come here on a 2 x $8M deal. Leave Dvorsky in the AHL for another year then have JT tutor him in 2026-2027. You could run a Top 9 next season that would get pretty balanced minutes, something like:

Holloway-Thomas-Kyrou
Buchnevich-Tavares-Bolduc
Neighbours-Schenn-Snuggerud

You would still have Toropchenko, Sundqvist, Walker, and Joseph to round out the 4th line. JT is still a great faceoff man, still has plenty of offensive juice, and I don't think he really hurts you defensively. I'd still rather see us go big game hunting for a guy like Marner, but I think JT would make a great consolation prize on a two-year deal.

Tavares didn’t even hear the Blues’ pitch when he originally hit UFA years ago, right? I know the circumstances of his UFA status are much different this go round - he was the clear prize of that year and in hindsight it seems he was pretty set on Toronto - but I wonder how much of a desire he has to come to STL. Particularly when you can’t really sell him on being the last piece on a team that’s close to winning big.

 

[PeoriaBlues309]

Tavares didn’t even hear the Blues’ pitch when he originally hit UFA years ago, right? I know the circumstances of his UFA status are much different this go round - he was the clear prize of that year and in hindsight it seems he was pretty set on Toronto - but I wonder how much of a desire he has to come to STL. Particularly when you can’t really sell him on being the last piece on a team that’s close to winning big.

Nope. The only teams he was willing to meet with iirc were Toronto, NYI, San Jose, and Tampa Bay?

I know a lot of us were pissed (me included), but us getting ROR instead absolutely worked out in our favor. Maybe we still manage to win the Cup that year, but with his performance in the SCF and playoffs in general, I doubt it.