Last week’s NHL FanPulse question posited if fans believed that their team would be a buyer or a seller at the NHL trade deadline. The Blues’ slump still has them leading the Central and leading the Western Conference - and as we all know, barring the occasional contract dump oddity, teams that are higher in the standings add pieces at the trade deadline from teams who are not so high in the standings.
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It’s a classic rental dump: if you’re in the bottom half of the league, have guys who are pending UFAs (or pending RFAs that you know will ask for a chunk of change), and you don’t believe that you will be able to re-sign them, you let them go.