Vincenzo Arelliti
He Can't Play Center
There is plenty of use in keeping Shattenkirk - he's one of the top scoring dmen in the league over the last three years, and at least one of those years had him as the top P/60 dman - better than Karlsson.
Acting like Shatty is somehow useless to the Blues is ridiculous. His value as a RH PMD, at age 27, has to be the highest of all available dmen, and is only less than that of a 1C or 1D.
Either we trade him for high value with an extension, or we keep him as a "rental" for another cup run and see what happens. We have a lot of cap coming off the books next year with Steen being UFA, so who knows - we might even re-sign him if we can get one of Parayko or Shatty to play the left side.
It has been rumored that Shatty would sign an extension with 6 or so teams - among them Detroit, Boston, and New York. There are plenty of teams looking for a dman like Shatty, and the only reason the Blues might not keep him is because we have TOO MANY top 30 RHD (I believe Parayko will cement himself as one this year).
Acting like Shatty is somehow useless to the Blues is ridiculous. His value as a RH PMD, at age 27, has to be the highest of all available dmen, and is only less than that of a 1C or 1D.
Either we trade him for high value with an extension, or we keep him as a "rental" for another cup run and see what happens. We have a lot of cap coming off the books next year with Steen being UFA, so who knows - we might even re-sign him if we can get one of Parayko or Shatty to play the left side.
It has been rumored that Shatty would sign an extension with 6 or so teams - among them Detroit, Boston, and New York. There are plenty of teams looking for a dman like Shatty, and the only reason the Blues might not keep him is because we have TOO MANY top 30 RHD (I believe Parayko will cement himself as one this year).