The St. Louis Blues find themselves in an odd place as the 2023 offseason begins. They offloaded all their pending unrestricted free agents during the season and are now trying to navigate unfriendly waters.
The Blues aren’t without options. They have a little over $7 million available in cap space and they have nine draft picks in the upcoming NHL Entry Draft.
Unfortunately, that’s a lot of unknown too. $7 million is great until you have to use that on only four or five players. Nine draft picks sounds great, but if you actually used all of them on draftees, you might be waiting years to see them in the NHL and that’s if they aren’t busts.