wannabebluesplayer
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Goaltending needs to get fixed, but it should not be Armstrong's top priority this off-season. Addressing the forwards as many have already said needs to be his big priority. I'm all for trading Jake Allen if you can pull it off, but you need a solid plan in place if you are going to trade him. Either Hutton needs to be re-signed and Husso needs to be your call up, or you need to get a guy like Antti Raanta. Goaltending would have been ignored if the Blues would have kept scoring like they did at the beginning of the season or here recently, but that wasn't a sustainable model.
As many here have said, if you can acquire another legitimate top 6 center to go along with Schenn and a top 6 RW to play behind Tarasenko, than it would do wonders for this team that would have a greater impact on the goaltending then getting a Price, Quick, or other elite level goaltender. Ken Dryden couldn't win a cup with this set of forwards.
Priority list needs to look something like this, shed the dead weight up front, get top 6 C, then top 6 rw, then look into goalie situation. If it's Husso and Allen next year in a 1A 1B with a forward group that includes maybe Tavares, Thomas, and Kyrou instead of Stastny, Berglund, and Sobotka, would anyone be really that upset and say they aren't a cup contender?
As many here have said, if you can acquire another legitimate top 6 center to go along with Schenn and a top 6 RW to play behind Tarasenko, than it would do wonders for this team that would have a greater impact on the goaltending then getting a Price, Quick, or other elite level goaltender. Ken Dryden couldn't win a cup with this set of forwards.
Priority list needs to look something like this, shed the dead weight up front, get top 6 C, then top 6 rw, then look into goalie situation. If it's Husso and Allen next year in a 1A 1B with a forward group that includes maybe Tavares, Thomas, and Kyrou instead of Stastny, Berglund, and Sobotka, would anyone be really that upset and say they aren't a cup contender?