St. Louis Blues: Top 10 Best Deadline Deals

This season seems to have St. Louis Blues fans frothing at the mouth for the team to make a deal.  Fans always want to get the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow without giving up anything.  We’ll leave the prospective deals to the management.  But with the deadline on the horizon, let’s explore some of the best deals the Blues pulled off before trades were shut down for the season.

It takes a lot to pull of a trade.  There are so many moving pieces that many of us will never truly know about.  It takes two willing teams to be involved.

It takes players to be healthy – sometimes including future players, sometimes including players that will soon be past players and sometimes involving cold hard cash.

In the “old days,” trades were fairly straight forward.  It was usually a player for a player, straight up.  Sometimes it would involve multiple players and occasionally there would be money involved, but it was still fairly simple.

Now, a deal can be so complicated that the public never really knows the full extent of what was exchanged between teams.  It can be coaches that swap places along with picks and cash, it could be a player for “future considerations” that we never seem to always find out what that was.  It’s pure craziness.

However, a good trade can mean the difference between making a run at a Stanley Cup or being just another team.  The Blues have made some stinkers and they’ve made some gems.  Here are the best of the latter.

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