Last season, the Blues showed they can be dangerous when they pushed the Winnipeg Jets to seven games in the first round after they stormed into the playoffs with a massive second half performance. It’s a good thing they’ve got that to grow on because running that group back again has them pushing the limit of the cap. As it sits now, they’ve got around $625,000 in cap space. That said, like a few others, they’ve got a tough, yet simple, way to add cap space.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Torey Krug’s ankle injury that’s kept him out of action since 2024 may force him into retirement. With his status being dire, it also means his $6.5 million cap hit instantly becomes a candidate to be used for LTIR should the Blues need it.<\/p>\n
St. Louis also had a bit of an extra bite put on them by $2.1 million in bonus carryover overage thanks to their younger players performing so well. It’s a bit of a first-world problem in hockey to have young guys do so well you get it dinged against you a year later, but while the Blues have an out with possible LTIR, the offer sheets they signed Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg out of Edmonton with proved to make their offseason this year a little bit trickier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last season, the Blues showed they can be dangerous when they pushed the Winnipeg Jets to seven games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-151006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}