In a Zoom interview with press last night, Doug Armstrong didn’t close the door on talks with Alex Pietrangelo, saying “you never know what happens in the future... we have to get very creative.” He implied that the Blues were just “knock[ing] things off as they came” when they signed Krug.
On his part, Alex Pietrangelo didn’t seem to expect the signing:
I traded texts with Pietrangelo last night and today.
It's fair to say there's two sides: he declined the Blues' latest offer and decided to go the market.