St. Louis Blues Trade Grades: 2014-2015
By Kate Cimini
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.
An inside look at the Arizona Coyotes’ front offices. Gif courtesy of
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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. Overall Armstrong made six trades during the season to tweak the Blues’ ability as a team.
We know trades can make or break a club; adding a winger here or a center there can change the entire chemistry of a line for better or worse. Some of the most-lauded trades can turn out to be disappointments to an entire city while others featuring ho-hum players turn out to be sleeping blockbusters. Hindsight is always 20/20, and we have not only the benefit of that, but of not having made the trades ourselves, giving us free reign to gripe or thrill. But not too much. We’re not new.
How did this season’s trades turn out? Did we send off more good players than we added?
Let’s take a look at Armstrong’s more visible moves this season, and how they impacted our team.
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