Yeah, again this is level 1 child's play.
Friedman tweeted today that Armstrong was looking to dump salary.
Obviously that would have to happen for any scenario of STL acquiring most of anything considering Shattenkirk's salary and STLs cap.
But keep reading these posts like a 4th grade English teacher. I need that in my life.
It might be level 1 child's play (what do you even mean by that?), but it's not EA's NHL video game. GMs do not concoct a series of multiple moves mid-season that are all contingent on one another to be successful. In a video game, if one of the deals you anticipated doesn't get accepted, you just reload an old save. In real life, if Armstrong moves out salary, let's say Berglund, and Calgary nixes the Hamilton swap, Blues are suddenly screwed with even less center depth than before. Each move has to make sense in a vacuum, otherwise something can go wrong with too many moving parts. Your proposal is utterly unrealistic. But keep up the child's play with the video-game proposals. I'm sure you will be right as often as Eklund.