With the St. Louis Blues training camps not too far off and not too many moves made among the defense by GM Doug Armstrong, leaving head coach Ken Hitchcock with a mostly-intact core group of defenders. Recently, we tackled prospective forward lines.
The Blues might have sent longtime defender Barret Jackman packing, leaving them with precisely seven defensemen on the NHL roster and a number of prospects to choose from, among them, then newly-signed Colton Parayko.
Who will hit the ice in the fall? We dreamt up some defensive pairings that, in a purely hypothetical scenario where Bleedin’ Blue’s staff gets the final say over who is iced and when, we’d try out in a heartbeat.