Finally, the Blues have found a way to fuck Detroit.
The Steve Ott Era is no more in St. Louis. As DK pointed out this morning in his excellent piece on why Ott should walk, Ott was paid a lot of money and did a lot of nothing except intangibles. Ooooh, intangibles.
He was acquired in a trade between theSabresand Blues (the infamousRyan Millerdeal, essentially as a throw-in to make the salaries work out). He made about $800K in that final 23-game stretch for the Blues (if my per-game math is correct), then $2.