Rumor: Blues could be looking at moving Edmundson

[Filthy Dangles]

Pretty mediocre player but Bowmeester and Gunnarson are old

 

[TJJefferson]

Seems like from the wording its just speculation rather than an actual rumour.

 

[simon IC]

Edmundson is coming off a bad year. Trading him now when his value is low is a bad idea. Armstrong isn't that stupid. As others have stated, we have two injury prone 30 yr olds on LD, and no internal replacements imminent. I would be very surprised if he was traded.

 

[stl76]

Pure speculation, and I don’t think JR realizes that sending down the 2 guys currently occupying Edmundson and Barbashevs spots in the line up will save an additional ~1.5 mill in cap space. Pretty dumb tweet tbh.

Blues would be foolish to trade Edmundson IMO.

 

[simon IC]

What's interesting was today I thought about how he'd be a good fit for the Jets and just the right replacement for Trouba.

He's a Manitoba boy too. Fabbri and Edmundson for Lowry?

 

[thedustman]

He's a Manitoba boy too. Fabbri and Edmundson for Lowry?

Hah love that fabbri and eddy are a package deal

 

[Beauterham]

This is complete nonsense. JR seems to forget that the 4.35 million cap left will increase as soon as we send Pouliot and Schmaltz down. When that happens we have 5.77 million left which seems more then enough to sign both Barbashev and Edmundson AND possibly have a small cussion left.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

He's a Manitoba boy too. Fabbri and Edmundson for Lowry?

Not too keen on giving up Lowry, but for both those players I'd do it.

 

[simon IC]

Not too keen on giving up Lowry, but for both those players I'd do it.

Yes, that would be a tricky, inter-division trade that could potentially bite one or both teams in the ass. Interesting discussion though, I appreciate that you thought about it.

 

[Legend123]

The blues are looking to move Edmonton out of the NHL as the Cup Champions???? Well, it's about time!! LOL just kidding.

They would be dumb to Edmunson. He won't fetch market value given their cap situation.

 

[Dr Quincy]

This is complete nonsense. JR seems to forget that the 4.35 million cap left will increase as soon as we send Pouliot and Schmaltz down. When that happens we have 5.77 million left which seems more then enough to sign both Barbashev and Edmundson AND possibly have a small cussion left.

I don't think he forgot that at all. If you read carefully he says that Armstrong wants 1.5-2.5. Moving those 2 players to the AHL and signing Edmundson and Barbashev won't leave the Blues with $2m in space.

I mean, it's possible he's wrong about the Blues wanting that much, but it's not nonsense at all.

 

[WeWentBlues]

I don't think he forgot that at all. If you read carefully he says that Armstrong wants 1.5-2.5. Moving those 2 players to the AHL and signing Edmundson and Barbashev won't leave the Blues with $2m in space.

I mean, it's possible he's wrong about the Blues wanting that much, but it's not nonsense at all.

This is the quote from the Athletic article discussing the Binnington extension.
"And Binnington’s deal appears to have allowed the Blues enough cap space ($7.1 million) to sign their four remaining restricted free agents, including Oskar Sundqvist, Joel Edmundson and Ivan Barbashev."

Armstrong quote:
“We think it’s extremely manageable, and our goal is to enter into the regular season, if possible, with a cushion of somewhere between $2 million and under. I think we certainly have the ability to do that without much issue.”

 

[Satan]

This is pure speculation by JR. The rumor tag is not warranted in this case.

 

[KirkOut]

He's a Manitoba boy too. Fabbri and Edmundson for Lowry?

Getting a big ‘stempniak for steen and colaiacovo’ vibe from that

 

[Dr Quincy]

This is the quote from the Athletic article discussing the Binnington extension.
"And Binnington’s deal appears to have allowed the Blues enough cap space ($7.1 million) to sign their four remaining restricted free agents, including Oskar Sundqvist, Joel Edmundson and Ivan Barbashev."

Armstrong quote:
“We think it’s extremely manageable, and our goal is to enter into the regular season, if possible, with a cushion of somewhere between $2 million and under. I think we certainly have the ability to do that without much issue.”

If it's close to $2m they want, it's going to be tough. If it's closer to $1m they can probably manage it. But if you don't think that they are considering dealing JE and that the cap is one factor in that, then I don't know what to tell you.

That 7.1 is now 5.7 (that's with the 2 extra D going down). Give Edmundson 3.5, give Barbashev 1m.

That leaves 1.2m. Which is exactly what I said: If Armstrong wants $2m or even > 1.5m something has to give.

 

[LeonDraisaitl]

They actually have 5+ million in space if you use your brain.

Wow the heat sure made someone grumpy

 

[Pyrophorus]

I'd take him.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

Really lazy tweeting by the Athletic reports for the Blues.

It wouldnt surprise me if Edmundson got dealt but it's not because we don't have the cap to resign him and Barbashev, even after factoring in Armstrong's recent quote.

That’s the only reason to deal Edmundson. Why else if not the cap?

We’re not exactly flush with LHD under the age of 30.