The St. Louis Blues finally acquired a top center, landing Ryan O’Reilly in a trade with the Buffalo Sabres. The deal, which you can read my initial thoughts on here, completely transforms how the Blues look on offense while also cutting a couple of the more pesky contracts from the roster.
The Blues already have some interesting ideas for O’Reilly, including one scenario where they don’t even use him as a center.
Armstrong said that in a perfect world, the #stlblues could get to Christmas and you could have Robert Thomas centering a line with maybe Tarasenko on the right and O'Reilly on the left.