Doug Armstrong, St. Louis Blues GM, has lit the burners on the Note’s hot stove this last week after attending multiple games at Nationwide Arena and Consol Energy Center, according to tweets from CSN’s Kevin Kurz and The Columbus Dispatch’s Aaron Portzline.
Though these visits could be innocuous, Armstrong’s attendance seems to confirm that the St. Louis Blues are kicking the tires on potential trade targets, like we first noted last week.
The initial question is who exactly the St. Louis Blues are willing to part with. With years of mounting playoff failure and a roster depleted by injuries, the Blues are stuck in a strange purgatory where no obvious weaknesses are visible, but players which have not as of yet performed in the postseason could be moved for new pieces.