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St. Louis Blues trade rumors are continuing to escalate this time around one very interesting player in particular as an NHL insider has revealed he's been linked to multiple teams now and his story is actually quite interesting and it does make a lot of sense for a Blues team that despite picking up a win in their most recent game has been struggling out of the gate in terms of the forward group. We're going to break down exactly who this player is, why this could be a fit and much more in this episode of Blues Digest including how the team has been playing as of late because fans have high expectations coming into this season and it might be our fault here on the channel and guys if you're not yet subscribed to the channel make sure to do so as we've noticed about 60 of you guys who watch these videos on the regular are not subscribed to the channel which means you're missing interesting key updates details all of that fun stuff on the Blues every single day but Mark let's get right into it a very interesting player in Connor Zary is drawing interest around the league and i believe from the St. Louis Blues as well now we've learned from Elliot Friedman that multiple teams are interested and have been linked to Connor Zary at this point he's an interesting player because he was just sent down to the AHL so in theory why would you want a player like that but i think there's a lot to this player Mark that could help the Blues could help a lot of teams and i think if you acquire him now he has a chip on his shoulder where he wants to make an impact in the NHL and kind of stick it to the Flames as well for what they've done so with Connor Zary of course going down and clearing waivers a lot of this has to do with the cap, teams can't go out and take on big cap hits if they're not going to use a guy and plus you get that 30-day grace period of him clearing waivers so if you acquire him you can still bounce him back and for it doesn't need to be immediately in the NHL, you could put him in the AHL with Springfield, see how he does if he starts to dominate then you call him up but Connor Zary a very interesting player a very young player that has seen his production drop season after season with the Calgary Flames of course last year 34 points incredible but never really hitting the 20 goal plateau that maybe they were expecting which ended up him going on waivers and we see that team lead into a youth movement but now teams are starting to look at Connor Zary, the trade interest continues to go up, Elliot Friedman spoke about it on Saturday night headlines meaning the Vancouver Canucks but multiple other teams are starting to look at Connor Zary and the interest continues to grow but the biggest thing is what we know is Calgary does not want to retain salary with Connor Zary coming back but there is a lot of strengths that he brings to an organization and looking for an offensive reset I think he fits perfect within this team now they're looking at Connor Zary and the scouting report his goal rate leaves room to be usually supporting scores and we can see everything he's good at of course he needs to pick up his speed he needs to be a bigger player on the ice but with Connor Zeri in my opinion it feels like a win-win going to acquire a young guy with a vengeance hey sounds like Mason McTavish and he's been incredible here what is your thoughts Darius on Connor Zeri and genuinely I think we need to see Alex team all over acquiring a guy like this because it's a low risk a very high reward I really like redemption arcs and I think Mason McTavish is in the middle of one He's going to have one here with St. Louis Because he looks really good so far And I think Connor Zeri, there's so much to this player still And I think trying to get a player To be who he is And more of who he is Sending him down to the AHL It doesn't always work And I don't know if that's the best route sometimes Hey, how about this? Your team stinks if you're the Calgary Flames How about that? He doesn't have anyone to play with There's nobody there And you traded Nazem Kadri last year, right? The team is not very good And obviously everything that's happening with Jonathan Huberdeau as well so the team is just straight up not very good if you were to add him in a supporting role an offensive supporting role in another team like the Blues where you do have top guys that can produce like in theory Holloway and in theory Schnuder as well and in theory let's just say the first line and we'll talk about them later in this video too uh it could work out i think this is a scenario where maybe you don't have to pay as much for a former first overall or sorry first round pick of the Calgary Flames and you can see he was placed on waivers last week he cleared waivers he went down he scored in his first game in the AHL because he is an NHL player and then the report started to come out about him being linked to multiple teams so Mark I think that it actually makes sense to add a player like this and again we have multiple other updates we're going to get to on the Blues too because they've made some roster moves but I think that it actually does make sense to try and acquire a player like this they would have to move some money out But I think it would just spark a little bit in the offense because we're not seeing too much right now. And he has to fit, as you can see here, the Blues cap situation because he will bring $3.7 million in cap eaten up by his contract for the next two years. And with the Flames, of course, they have a lot of contracts on the books. They don't want to retain salary. Taking that just shy of $4 million is probably going to be the make or break if the Blues can get this done. with no retention coming from calgary you would need to of course maybe attach an asset you can't do this trade with the straight up as you can see with the current cap and where the blues currently sit maybe this is where you attach a player you make some roster moves send guys down of course this is all stats before they made the roster moves with multiple guys coming up and an injury which we're going to touch on but Darius Conner's area again it feels like a guy he fits in this team like a glove a young player redemption arc we love that over in st louis and a guy that of course if coming in if things pan out and you don't see a future with them that's a buy low asset that you go out and flip immediately at deadline maybe next year maybe he fits the fold maybe you see sooner traded because we see Connor Sire fit that role even better and even looking at where he can fit a middle six left winger or someone that can fill in the gap at center we know Connor McMichael Mason McTavish do exactly this but looking at the lineup of course the Blues need to do something because that top line has not been clicking like we've seen last year we see the comments of you guys speaking on it and Darius do you have any final thoughts of course on this because we're going to dive into an injury update we're going to dive into even more on the team but I want to know the fans thoughts as well do you think Connor Sire fits because again low asset maybe you get them for completely free or small asset to take them on and so on just looking to get into a lineup and prove not only the Flames wrong but other 31 teams that did not claim him that he deserves to be in the NHL the reason he wasn't claimed too is because there's a lot of implications around the league i think a lot of teams would have liked to claim the player but there's a lot of teams that are close to the contract limit maybe teams would like to move off of something in return for Connor Sire there's a lot of teams like the Blues for example that couldn't just take him on right like a lot of people at this point in the season so early or close to the cap and there's so many injuries around the league too i would take a chance on him i think i would look into a move like that and it's to just spice things up and change things up a little bit because not to get too negative here on the channel because we normally aren't but let's face reality here i did i didn't i know they won last night i didn't like the way man a lot of people might dump on me for this i didn't like the way it happened ross johnson has a big fight it fires up the boys that's cool that's not sustainable that's not sustainable at all right like that's a one night thing where it's like oh we don't have it we're down to nothing i'm gonna drop the gloves for the boys that's the type of stuff that gets you fired up and i do love that stuff that's why you have the guy and that's literally the reason Alexei signed that contract for ross johnson but that to me is not sustainable and we're gonna get into the roster move in a second but mark i don't know if you have any thoughts people are commenting and we're seeing the comments people are pissed because this team is not as good as advertised as last season or at the end of last season right and then they made a couple moves in the offseason Connor McMichael you move out Kyrie you bring in Mason McTavish and you're like all right you're building something pretty cool here so far a lot left to be desired and especially with that top line do you change it do you continue to ride it out until 10 games in i don't know if there was a lot of turnover i'd say yes but to me that top line there is no turnover so you have to get going so to me do you like it in a vacuum that response yes to win that game 100 but i don't think that's sustainable and that's a problem for me now we can get to the roster moves and mark i don't know if you have any thoughts on that specifically but uh i don't like the way they've started this season and you might be asking why do i have the old standings up it's because this is the team that went on the run last season i mean looking at the conference you almost snuck into the playoffs of course not making it but you built that momentum just to come the flat footed out of the gate there's it felt like one of the situations we want to see more yes did we hype them up too much probably yes because we're super optimistic but looking at the team on paper it's hard not to be optimistic with the moves they made but of course speaking of moves there's been some injury updates and roster moves made to the team where Dubé was injured and called for a call-up with Springfield after that now touching on Dubé it's not going to be too long well we're not going to touch on it long I should say eight weeks with Dylan Dubé who will be re-evaluated this is added to a already very long list of injured players within this organization of course Dubé scored his goal on shorthanded he's been a good depth piece within this organization and Jim Montgomery has been trying multiple things but like Jim said it's now an opportunity for a depth and that's where we see the call-up where Dylan Peterson was called up from Springfield as this is another Blues team dealing with quite a few injuries and someone that was very interesting during training camp someone that can fill in on the fourth line you can see that from Lou Johnson Suter and Peterson's fourth line on Tuesday Suter will have two great bodyguards with him on the ice at all times that's for sure with these injuries it's opening minutes and you love the opportunity for young guys or players fighting to get into the NHL to get it but Darius are you worried with already the turmoil over on this team as we've dealt with injuries to Logan Mayhew's already out and multiple key other young players are now having to fill in those big roles like obviously worried it is a good opportunity for the depth I guess but how can you not be worried about injuries right there's a lot of injuries around the league I don't know if it had something to do with players really ramping up training before training camp because there was a short training camp I don't know exactly what it is but there's a lot of injuries around the league so worried yes because these are significant long-term injuries but next man up what do you got in terms of depth there was a reason why they made some of the moves they made who's next what do you got and let's continue to roll here and that's what you got to do because you can't take back injuries right you just have to move forward and you can't blame the injuries either right so let's see what the team continues to do and i think that's the biggest thing but fans we want to know your thoughts on everything from the scoring droughts from the top line from everything in between this is a comment that we seen pop up as well we're after three games so far was had more points than Thomas and Holloway combined it's absolutely insane what's happening there as you said a perfect awful is a good word for that as well do you think they need to split things up do you think Peterson gets into this lineup and doesn't get sent back down what is your thoughts on Conor's here let us know all your thoughts down in the comments because we love reading through it I've been your host Mark with my co-host Darius and take care Blues fans