Blues Discussion Thread 2018-2019

[Stealth JD]

Trade for Tyler Johnson. Sign JVR for 4yr @ $5.8M:

JVR-Johnson-Tarasenko
Schwartz-Schenn-Fabbri
Steen-Thomas-Berglund
Barbashev-Brodziak-Soshnikov

 

[Mike Liut]

Trade for Tyler Johnson. Sign JVR for 4yr @ $5.8M:

JVR-Johnson-Tarasenko
Schwartz-Schenn-Fabbri
Steen-Thomas-Berglund
Barbashev-Brodziak-Soshnikov

I’m in

 

[ManyIdeas]

What's the realistic trade for Tyler Johnson, anyway?

 

[Stealth JD]

What's the realistic trade for Tyler Johnson, anyway?

Young, cheap talent. Yzerman's preferred combination of Fabbri/Kyrou/Thompson/Schmaltz/Bokk/Kostin/Mikkola/Walman/Sanford/Foley/etc.

Maybe you could send back Sobotka to make it a larger deal, but Yzerman has so much flexibility and depth, if the price for Johnson is too much, maybe you take Killorn if he comes with Cedric Paquette. There's a deal to be had there somewhere.

 

[Dbrownss]

Trade for Tyler Johnson. Sign JVR for 4yr @ $5.8M:

JVR-Johnson-Tarasenko
Schwartz-Schenn-Fabbri
Steen-Thomas-Berglund
Barbashev-Brodziak-Soshnikov

JVR isnt signing 4yrs sub 6m.

 

[Stealth JD]

JVR isnt signing 4yrs sub 6m.

Yeah...but 'endorsing' $6M/year would have made me throw-up in my mouth a little...so I had to take the 'under'. I'm sure the Blues have the money to make it work, if that's a path they want to explore.

 

[Dbrownss]

Yeah...but 'endorsing' $6M/year would have made me throw-up in my mouth a little...so I had to take the 'under'. I'm sure the Blues have the money to make it work, if that's a path they want to explore.

I'd pass on JVR personally. Someone is going to make him very rich.

 

[Ranksu]

I don't know, but I don't like JVR gamestyle. He can't carry the linemates and relies on heavily his linemates. Majority of his goals are garbage goals, rebounds. He does creates space front of net, but is he worth of that much? Playing with Marleu and Marner did help his goal totals a lot.

 

[Xanadude]

Tyler Johnson- probably the second-best option to ROR. next year's first + a prospect not named thomas or kyrou +depth player, all day. logically Yzerman should deal him this week, but he's so good with cap circumvention...if any GM could get by with keeping Johnson, it's him. Fingers Crossed.

JVR: he's a supplementary piece. Most of his goals come from getting in the gritty areas and getting dirty goals. That's a skillset we could use, but not more than a 2c...and he's going to take a massive overpay to get him and I'm not really optimistic about him being reliable after the next 3-4 years.

 

[STL Blues Fan]

Why couldn't we go after someone like EK65 to stack our defense even more and with a stacked defense we could afford to run with all of our young kids at forward like Thomas and Kyrou?

Edit: It probably sounds like a dumb idea but we could trade somebody like Dunn, Walman, Edmundson, Schmaltz maybe 2 of them if they want, throw another forward prospect in but not Thomas or Kyrou, a 1st round pick for next year, and another conditional 1st round pick for 2020 or 2021 contingent if we resign him or not.

 

[Itsnotatrap]

Tampa isn’t going to need anything on the left side for D. They’re likely going to dump what is, to me, still a decent project in Slater Koekkoek. However, they are very much in need on the right side. Tyler Johnson plus isnt enough for someone of Parayko’s caliber, but I do wonder if someone like Schmaltz carries enough value to them to find a way to meet in the middle, with some adds on our end. Especially if they go into 7/1 with the idea that they have a punchers chance at Tavares.

 

[MissouriMook]

Tampa isn’t going to need anything on the left side for D. They’re likely going to dump what is, to me, still a decent project in Slater Koekkoek. However, they are very much in need on the right side. Tyler Johnson plus isnt enough for someone of Parayko’s caliber, but I do wonder if someone like Schmaltz carries enough value to them to find a way to meet in the middle, with some adds on our end. Especially if they go into 7/1 with the idea that they have a punchers chance at Tavares.

If they know before Saturday that Tavares wants to play there, I could see a Johnson + Stralman for Parayko deal getting the job done. Stralman would only have one year left (and this is assuming we are on his 16 team list) so he wouldn't add a ton of value, but getting Parayko would give them extended cost certainty at RD while shedding cap space. We may have to add a pick or someone like Blais/Walman.

 

[Oberyn]

I've made it known that I'm not a fan of Johnson and I would really hate it if he was the forward we got in return for Parayko.

 

[Halak Ness Monster]

Trade for Tyler Johnson. Sign JVR for 4yr @ $5.8M:

JVR-Johnson-Tarasenko
Schwartz-Schenn-Fabbri
Steen-Thomas-Berglund
Barbashev-Brodziak-Soshnikov

I've wanted JVR since the 2014 Olympics. He has a great nose for the net and is a really solid offensive power forward. He would score 25-30 goals a year in STL playing with those centers.

I'd have no problem going up to 5 years for him, too. He's only 29.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

I like Johnson, and I think he'd be a great fit along side Tarasenko, but he's not even a conversation starter for Parayko.

 

[The Note in MI]

Disgusting

 

[bleedblue1223]

In the right role at the right price, I'd be fine with it.

 

[Vladys Gumption]

He better be dirt cheap. All the talk about getting faster seems to just be lil service if they’re seriously considering Maroon.

I like him. He’s a solid player but he’s just not a fit for what we need to be doing.

 

[Dbrownss]

This reeks of desperation

 

[Oberyn]

I've always dreamed of seeing a Sobotka-Berglund-Maroon line. Just a perfect ensemble of mediocrity.

 

[wannabebluesplayer]

Disgusting

I have to agree. If he's here and Berglund and Sobotka still are, I might just throw up in my mouth a little.

 

[Mike Liut]

I've always dreamed of seeing a Sobotka-Berglund-Maroon line. Just a perfect ensemble of mediocrity.

Hopefully the 4th line

 

[The Note in MI]

Hopefully the 4th line

Worlds most expensive 4th line lmao

 

[Mike Liut]

Worlds most expensive 4th line lmao

Better than worlds slowest 3rd line lol

 

[bleedblue1223]

If we get Maroon, I'd want to dump some of our other 3rd line mediocre vets.