St. Louis Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong holds a press conference on Saturday, Feb. 18 at noon CT to discuss the trade of captain Ryan O’Reilly and Noel Acciari to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for three draft picks and forwards Mikhail Abramov and Adam Gaudette.
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Let’s go Blues. Good deal. Thank you Captain, thank you Army
Agree with the blues going back to its roots of bringing up players but damn.
I’m not happy with what army did but if your going to trade out good player then get something good out of it. Also I think you should go after Jack Hughes like just imagine Jack Hughes, Jordan Kyrou, Thomas, Brayden Schenn, Sammy Blais on a team we will be scoring back-and-forth. Just a thought if you want a chance to win a cup.
Na na na na! Na na na na! Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy goodbye
Armstrong the poor defense play is the problem for this team. Not our talented forwards you keep trading for draft picks. Draft picks are a gamble. You failed to make our team better. You fail to understand that are defense is probably one of the worst in the league. Armstrong your the one that needs to go. Hard to be a blues fan these days.
This is a wholesale sellout of the team. “overachievers” don’t grow on trees. Amazes me we can build a dynasty, but it will never happen with only home grown players. Its almost as if the won the cup and that’s enough for the next 20 years. Smh.
WTF Doug
Welcome to Toronto Ryan O'Reilly
Could Parako be traded next please? If he interferes with Binny again I’m going to go crazy!!
3 first rounders so far this coming draft !!
I think it's the best move in a very deep draft this year
Unless some of these picks are used for other acquisitions coming before the deadline (Meier) (Chychrun)
TRADE PARAYKO! Army is tweaking! 😂
It’s a win win for StL and Tor. Great work Army. Let’s load up and get some more help for Thomas, Kyrou, Neighbors, Bolduc, Snuggerud and keep some of these healthy Vets like Schenn, Faulk, Parayenko, Buchnevich, Leddy, torophencko. Go Blues!!!
Good on Armstrong for not holding on to Tarasenko and O’Reilly and loosing them for nothing. Let’s get this rebuild going in high gear so we can get through it quickly!
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Im not the biggest Armstrong fan, but he did good with this press conference. I liked how he owned it, and even made corrections to his previous statements about players quitting. This looks like more of a rebuild around Thomas and Kyrou, rather then a re-tool. The Blues roster is predominately made from acquisitions, rather then drafted and developed players. Alot of pressure is gonna be on the scouting and those in charge of development. The Blues track record isnt exactly shining. Waldman has become a solid with Seider in Detroit. Klostin has also turned a page in Edmonton. Of course we wont talk about Thompson in Buffalo, and his development. Armstrong has handled money very wrong also. Thomas and Kyrou both make more then Jason Robertson and Tage Thompson, and lets not discuss trade clauses as well.
LGB
The blues suck.
The blueline is key. Young defensemen coming in take longer to develop to become regulars in the league. The Blues need a stud d man and probably two to compete with the better teams in our conference. Tonight's game against the Avs showed our weakness and left Binner out to lunch again.
Armstrong owns this $hitshow. He needs to be gone, too.
WTH Where's the rest? Why cut off
Tage Thompson or O'reilly and Lord Stanley. I don't know the right answer, but 2019 was absolutely F'n amazing. Thank you Blues
OK, first of all as a Leaf fan, thanks for giving us ROR and Acciari. They were impressive in their first game as Leafs a while ago against MTL and we expect the same in every game moving forward.
Also, you guys get a good prospect in Mikhail Abramov. Adam Gaudette was good in the AHL this season but was never called up to the big club, since we also focused on other prospects like Pontus Holmberg.
I think Gaudette would get called up to STL and could be useful in the bottom 6 (3rd-4th line).
Also think B. Schenn could be your next captain, as well.