Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: St. Louis Blues GM Doug Armstrong is trying his attention to his restricted free agents. Once they are taken care of, it doesn’t seem likely that they will have the room for UFA forward Tyler Bozak, unless they are able to move Vladimir Tarasenko and his contract.
Options to move Tarasenko are shrinking and moving him has been easier said than done. Tarasenko has been willing to move his no-trade clause to basically anywhere.
The New York Islanders and Carolina Hurricanes could fit in his $7.