I think the Blues go 2 years on Barby, 3 on Eddy, and 1 on Sunny. I think they give Sunny like a 2.2-2.5 mil prove it contract, Barby a 1.5-1.8 mil bridge, and then they sign Eddy probably around 3.2-3.5 mil extension that takes him just after the Seattle expansion. This keeps them just under the cap for this year, but things could get dicey next year. If you want to stay competitive, you've got to get rid of that Allen contract and Steen contract, and hopefully if Bouw doesn't retire, he'll take about a 50% pay cut. I hope they can keep Petro and Schenn, but unless they can trade some of these heavy contracts, it's looking like it'll be hard.
I see it that way Edmundson needs succesfull season so 1-year deal for him is righteous. Maybe 1-year with 3.150mill.$ Ed had really rough season and assume there was some injuries behind. I hope so, 'cus he has regressed heavily. Not play that hard game anymore, do bonehead passes at d-zone and really turn the puck that much he get healthy scratched at finals too. Not impressed by him at all.
Barbashev is hard one, 'cus he had jump in season. He cracked in team and produce 30'ish season on 4th line and had impactfull post-season 3+3=6. Barby was important role in Blues playing 2nd PK unite with Sundqvist. (1.23/ATOI/SH) I could see Barby could get Calle Järnkrok type of deal 2mill.$ x 6-years. Feels like it would favor both sides. I could see Barbashev improve his overall game, but saying he would crack 40'ish point isn't maybe not that realistic. He's just perfect fit 4th line, heavy hitter and PK killer.
Sidenote Barbashev record most hits at playoffs 87.
Here is list our PK unite
#1 Steen 2.00/ATOI/SH
#2 ROR 1:42/ATOI/SH
#3 Sunny 1:31/ATOI/SH
#4 Barby 1:23/ATOI/SH
#5 Bozak 0:54/ATOI/SH
Sunqvist was one of our important players at post-season. Break throught year of Sunny's career and produce 31 points at regular season and post-season 4+5=9. I think Sunny has upside to hit 40-50 point mark, but his points will be limited with his usage. Heaviest PK icetime and I assume Sunny had majority of defensive zone starts. Not sure 100%. Also sidenote Sunny had most drawn penalties at playoffs 10min which was highest at NHL.
Realistically I assume Sundqvist should get 2-year deal x 3.250mill.$. We could easily compare to Sunny to Danton Heinen's contract which was 2-years x 2.8mill.$
Only area in Sunny's job have to get improve is his faceoff play. 47% at playoffs is good, but he could improve that to around 55% and he would be ideally best 4th line PK'ner at NHL. Sunny had at regular season 41.9% so there was clear path, ofc sample isn't that big compare to playoffs, but comparision was tougher at playoffs.
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I predict:
Edmundson 3.150mill.$ x 1-year
Barbashev 2mill.$ x 6-years or 2mill.$ x 4-years
Sundqvist 3.250mill.$ x 2-years
Sunny and Barby are currently one of my favourite players, so there might be some biased opinion about their contracts.