It’s fun to hypothesize about what your favorite team will do leading up to the trade deadline, especially when your team is a clear-cut buyer. It’s window shopping, pure and simple, and who doesn’t enjoy fantasizing about spending someone else’s millions of dollars?
The Blues this year weren’t clear cut buyers heading into today’s trade deadline. By virtue of their three game winning streak and return to playoff seeding, they weren’t sellers, either. Doug Armstrong didn’t do anything fun today, and the Blues were better off for it.
Their three major pending UFAs, Mike Hoffman, Tyler Bozak, and Jaden Schwartz, are worth more to the team’s playoff hopes as active members of the Blues than they were as draft picks.