St. Louis Blues’ general manager Doug Armstrong had his fingerprints up and down the Stanley Cup champion team, and some of those key players were a result of moves he made on draft day.
Brayden Schenn was acquired from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for two first-round picks and Jori Lehtera. The trade for Schenn may have been the most significant trade in the history of trades until Armstrong followed up two years later acquiring Ryan O’Reilly.
In 2017, the Blues turned Ryan Reaves and a second-round pick to acquire Oskar Sundqvist and a first-round pick that was used to draft Klim Kostin.