Confirmed Signing with Link: [STL] Brandon Saad signs with the Blues (5 years, $4.5M AAV)

[LetsGoBLUES91]

Basically, they replaced Hoffman by Saad.

A decent upgrade. And a decent upgrade to Schwartz with Buchnevich. Now just have to see what happens with Tarasenko. Otherwise not the terrible offseason a lot of fans feared.

 

[McJedi]

Hahaha welcome to the thread McJedi.

Congratulations on Saad. Good deal. Buch too.

 

[WeWentBlues]

Armstrong proves again why he is one of the best GMs in the league. Didn't panic yesterday during the market frenzy and paid Saad exactly what the Blues were able to fit in to their cap without necessitating any additional moves. Saad is coming off a 6 year 36M contract at an AAV of 6M. 6.5M in actual salary last year. How many players took a 2M hit in base salary for next season during yesterday's mania? Probably not many.

Armstrong has balls of steel. He's not always right. But his shrewdness had paid off for the Blues big time.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

So the Blues snagged one Avs winger after all.

Yeah, we were hoping for Landy, but he apparently hates St Louis.

Saad has been a topic on our board for at least 4-5 weeks. We had a very strong feeling we were going to go after him.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

A decent upgrade. And a decent upgrade to Schwartz with Buchnevich. Now just have to see what happens with Tarasenko. Otherwise not the terrible offseason a lot of fans feared.

Two upgrades.

Now we need Tank to put on his big boy pants cuz Army is as hardheaded as they come.

 

[Theodore450]

Armstrong proves again why he is one of the best GMs in the league. Didn't panic yesterday during the market frenzy and paid Saad exactly what the Blues were able to fit in to their cap without necessitating any additional moves. Saad is coming off a 6 year 36M contract at an AAV of 6M. 6.5M in actual salary last year. How many players took a 2M hit in base salary for next season during yesterday's mania? Probably not many.

Armstrong has balls of steel. He's not always right. But his shrewdness had paid off for the Blues big time.

He’s always been a good gm and evaluator of talent. Glad he got that cup

 

[pdavemoney]

Blues got

RoR
Perron
Buchnevich
Kyrou
Thomas
Saad
Sundqvist
Barbashev
Sanford

That's a strong ass top 9 already. Think they have to move Tarasenko or maybe play one of those guys in a limited role for a while

You forgot Schenn.
Edit: already addressed. Sorry, should've read the thread first.

 

[Bologna 1]

As someone previously noted, I also Didn’t realize he was only 28

 

[SwivelSchwartz]

Hated him on the hawks, so I’m sure I’ll love him on the blues

 

[Crow]

Gross Brandon!

 

[LetsGoBLUES91]

Two upgrades.

Now we need Tank to put on his big boy pants cuz Army is as hardheaded as they come.

Haha I really hope we keep him, even if he never plays a game here. Love Armstrong. "Don't want to play here? Sign 1 year deals then you candy ass".

 

[PromisedLand]

You can ! Subban at 50% retention and a 3rd for Tank . I’ll get the paperwork started

Would be interesting if Devils pull the trigger on this

 

[CovidCupChamps]

Gross Brandon!

I dunno man the Hawks have made a solid bid for grossest team in the league lately. Wonder if that factored into his decision.

 

[Luigi Habs]

Would have preferred him over Hoffman

 

[DL44]

What an insane career of contracts this kid has had...
He's earned like $50-60 million in his career now with this contract... $50-60 million. Brandon Saad.

The opitomy of ... keep your head down, don't make any noise, just go out and skate hard, try to pot a goal a week.... cash the checks.

 

[BLNY]

Would have preferred him over Hoffman

A more complete player, but not the natural scorer. I was wondering if they might look at him right before the Hoffman announcement came down. I like the deal for the Blues, and would have liked it for Montreal. I do like the Hoffman signing though.

 

[PromisedLand]

Danault and Hyman both got a million more than Saad and additional year(s). Did Saad wait too long to agree on the term and money?

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Is he really top 6 though? Seems like more of an awesome 3rd line winger. I'll be thrilled if he puts up better line 2 production.

3rd liner don't average 24 goals/season over the span of their career.

 

[JustAnotherHockeyFan]

How did Colorado not match this and no one else beat this?

He's a perfect fit in New Jersey, Montreal, LA, Ottawa, even Toronto off the top of my head

 

[JustAnotherHockeyFan]

What an insane career of contracts this kid has had...
He's earned like $50-60 million in his career now with this contract... $50-60 million. Brandon Saad.

The opitomy of ... keep your head down, don't make any noise, just go out and skate hard, try to pot a goal a week.... cash the checks.

Except he forgets to check his timesheet and keeps doing it in the playoffs, after there are no more checks to cash. If the rest of Colorado followed his meek approach they'd have gotten past Vegas.

 

[Dead Meat]

Long time Saad fan here - wish him the best.

 

[Mike Liut]

Over / under on Saad scoring 25g with ROR and Perron? I think I’m taking the over

 

[stl76]

Wow I totally forgot about the Tarasenko saga this offseason.. I wonder what will happen there

Pretty simple really. Armstrong will look for a good trade. If he can't work one out, then Tarasenko will start the year on the Blues. If Tarasenko plays well then he may be traded midseason/at the TDL, or maybe both sides can reconcile and he stays.

Extremely unlikely that the Blues would be willing to retain significant salary, take back significant cap dump(s), or trade Tarasenko for peanuts. McJedi's ideas that the Blues will have to attach Robert Thomas in order to move Tarasenko are clown-shoes-laughable.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Over / under on Saad scoring 25g with ROR and Perron? I think I’m taking the over

I feel like Saad is playing with Schenn-Kyrou and Buch is playing with Perron-RoR.

 

[Mike Liut]

I feel like Saad is playing with Schenn-Kyrou and Buch is playing with Perron-RoR.

It’s possible I guess