The St. Louis Blues didn’t participate in a huge amount of trades this season, with GM Doug Armstrong preferring to go for a more measured approach to team-building than, say, the Phoenix Coyotes who had an absolute fire sale when it came to exchanging anything from skaters to goaltenders to a cup of freshly-sharpened pencils for picks in upcoming draft years.
If they didn’t sell off half the empire, the ones they made were impactful, whether it was selling off a defender who had outlived his usefulness on the Blues, or taking a gamble on a new center or two.