About a month or so ago, we were all assuming that the Blues would be sellers at the trade deadline. The degree of seller was up for debate, but overall the common consensus would be they’d ship someone out. Would it be Jay Bouwmeester’s massive contract as a rental? Could they snooker the (then) non-productive Alexander Steen to waive his NTC so the Blues could waive goodbye to the $5,750,000 a year cap hit there? Maybe the Blues could get some prospects and some draft picks so the season wouldn’t be a bust.
And then they started winning.