2021 Offseason Discussion

[Thallis]

Sweet. Again, we’ve had more success than them over the last 5 years. What did they get out of beating an injured Blues team? Nothing.

Now they’ve added Kuemper this offseason while losing Grubauer, Saad, Graves, Donskoi, Timmins, Bellemare and Calvert.

But yeah don’t let me interrupt your “Avs are amazing” party.

"Team entering their window has had less success in the past 5 seasons than the team exiting it" isn't exactly an earth shattering statement.

 

[WeWentBlues]

There really isn't that great of a Market. Saad maybe, Bozak might still return. Tatar? Murray is still out there, Marcus Johansson might not be mad, he can play every forward position. Gustufsson?

Ritchie and Kase intrigue me as buy low candidates

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Ritchie and Kase intrigue me as buy low candidates

That's true, I forgot they weren't tendered QO's. Djoos while not the greatest wouldn't be awful to look at either.

 

[LetsGoBooze]

Sign Bozie and hold on anything other than depth signings. Rather shoot for a blockbuster trade in season once Tara re-establishes value.

 

[Thallis]

nobody has accepted a qualifying offer either. To not have anything even in the rumor mill is incredibly troubling. UNLESS there's something big in the works which I cannot see happening.

We don't usually have much news until it happens.

 

[CraftyVeteran]

just pray that the Avs aren't in on Eichel.

 

[Chojin]

I'm surprised we haven't even made an AHL depth signing yet.

 

[CraftyVeteran]

I'm surprised we haven't even made an AHL depth signing yet.

this is really my concern. Depth. Last season this team was deeper and still had issues. What we have going forward is not very inspiring.

 

[Zachary Hines]

Nothing will be left. Even if all RFA signs we could still use another scoring threat.

 

[Blanick]

If Army doesn't make any moves via FA or trade, this is likely lineup we are looking at next year.

Perron - ROR - Buch
Schenn - Thomas - Tarasenko
Sanford - Sunny - Kyrou
Clifford - Barby - Kostin

Krug - Faulk
Scandella - Parayko
Walman/Mikkola - Bortuzzo

Binny
Husso

Not terrible. We would need a lot out of the kids but not a terrible lineup. The scary thing is that one or two bad injuries and this lineup would fall apart due to the lack of depth. Could you imagine if ROR, Perron or Faulk missed significant time? We would be staring down the barrel of a lottery pick.

 

[Meatball]

Assuming we sign Bozak back:

Perron-ROR-Buch
Schenn-Thomas-Tarasenko
Kostin-Bozak-Kyrou
Sanford-Barbashev-Sundqvist

Mikkola-Parayko
Krug-Faulk
Walman/Scandella-Bortuzzo

Binnington
Husso

That team might rustle a few jimmies if everything goes right.

 

[BlueDream]

I do not get why saying that the Avs are a good team sends a portion of this board into a fit.

Anyway, horrible trade by COL. Arizona’s done a good job kicking off a rebuild. Maybe this one will take.

Nobody is throwing a fit or saying the Avs are bad.

It’s the hypocrisy that’s running rampant in here in how people dissect the moves the Blues make vs. other teams, such as the Avalanche. It’s comical.

 

[542365]

Not many of the moves that were made today interest me. Pretty glad Doug stayed out of those. We do need some additions though, so bringing in Saad and bringing back Bozak would help quite a bit. Defense is still pretty awful, but there really hasn’t been anything available that would change that.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

BTW, The Yotes now have two first-round picks and five second-round picks in the 2022 draft. That rebuild. Holy smokes.

I love their moves with Bill Armstrong, with the hiccup of drafting that guy accused of bullying in his introduction period. But they had no 1st due to the tampering, and now they've moved a bad contract and accumulated some quality draft picks. They'll tank, so they can just sign Dubnyk or whatever veteran cheap goalie is out there. Get a lottery pick next year and all these supplemental draft picks. I think they'll have enough firepower to do a proper rebuild.

 

[BuLLeT1291]

I'm surprised we haven't even made an AHL depth signing yet.

This is exactly why I think Doug does something insane.

 

[WeWentBlues]

Is there anything left in Arizona that we want? Wonder what the price is on Dvorak or Chychrun? Is 2022 1st, Robert Thomas, Scott Perunovich, Ville Husso enough for both?

 

[Blueston]

Is there anything left in Arizona that we want? Wonder what the price is on Dvorak or Chychrun? Is 2022 1st, Robert Thomas, Scott Perunovich, Ville Husso enough for both?

Chycrun is reportedly only guy not available.

 

[WeWentBlues]

Chycrun is reportedly only guy not available.

Maybe we can crack Billy with a soft spot for some of his former draft picks. One can dream.

 

[Ranksu]

Not many of the moves that were made today interest me. Pretty glad Doug stayed out of those. We do need some additions though, so bringing in Saad and bringing back Bozak would help quite a bit. Defense is still pretty awful, but there really hasn’t been anything available that would change that.

Schmidt and Suter?

 

[Beauterham]

I'm surprised we haven't even made an AHL depth signing yet.

Not just AHL-level depth signings, we haven't even signed a single player to an AHL-contract yet. Springfield does need quite a few players to fill their roster, so it makes me wonder if they opted out for the next season aswell.

 

[Blueston]

Not just AHL-level depth signings, we haven't even signed a single player to an AHL-contract yet. Springfield does need quite a few players to fill their roster, so it makes me wonder if they opted out for the next season aswell.

We signed Nathan Walker few days ago.

 

[BlueKnight]

I don't think we are after Saad.

 

[BlueDream]

Yeah I doubt we win a bidding war for Saad at this rate.

That leaves the best LW option as Tomas Tatar. I really wouldn’t mind him, he can skate, has scored 25+ goals a handful of times and is a bit better defensively than Hoffman.