Insider reveals SHOCKING Blues trade report... - Multiple St. Louis updates

St. Louis Blues and the trade front as he spoke in detail on Alex Dean's plan heading into the season with a lot of players within this organization. This key update shows exactly their plans going into not only the beginning of the season but heading towards the trade deadline. Plus we get an update coming from Jim Montgomery on an injury and the Lions heading into their next game. We're going to break down all this and so much more so Darius let's just dive straight into it today. We're the St. Louis Blues continue to play hockey. It's so fun to see that they're finally back but the first update coming through is the lineup heading into the next game versus the Dallas Stars. A lot of the Lions you can see of course you're going to have Holloway, Thomas and Snugger the projected first line again going into the season. We're seeing Otto Stenberg play with Mace McTavish. Darius what is not only your thoughts on this but an injury update coming through on one player in particular in Tyler Tucker who will be out and being re-evaluated. It's not day-to-day it's going to be longer and his potential of getting knocked out of this lineup. Yeah obviously this team when you're looking back at last year is a lot deeper this year right you have a lot of really good young talent that are looking to make that jump to take that next step and Theo Lindstein is a guy that obviously comes to mind we've covered him the last couple days and Jim Montgomery seems to love him so I you know it looked like he was going to make the team and that may have just solidified it and tough luck for a guy that you know we both like here on the channel and Tyler Tucker that is for sure but that has seriously diminished his chances of you know maybe not making the team you may end up still on the team but definitely you know finding a spot in the everyday lineup you may end up being a seventh maybe eighth defenseman at this point and we'll get into what that kind of looks like including obviously a trade update as well and more in depth on what the plan is for the Blues later on in this episode but guys training camp is you know almost done which 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know injuries happen in camp all the time Mark and this is just another one that happened this year but I think it again has pretty big implications on you know what the plan is moving forward because we got some insight this morning into what the plan is with this team because we were all under the assumption I think that they were going to start to move off some players because that's just what most other teams that have this many extras are doing around the league and I think that goes straight into like you said Elliott Freeman where he spoke on 32 thoughts speaking on the St. Louis Blues one thing I kind of heard is that St. Louis for example they have a bunch of NHL guys who are kind of in the bottom six and not all of them are going to make the team and I don't think the Blues let it be known that if you want some NHL depth deeper in your roster who guys who've played we have extra so the Blues don't seem keen on trading any of the guys series which in one site hey if you can get more assets go get them but I also love it because like you've seen with Tyler Tucker a lot of these guys deal with injuries we know the St. Louis Blues was plagued with them last year as well so now this is a team that wants to hold their depth a team that yes you might lose some guys to waivers but a deep team looking up you suitor who we're going to highlight a very good player playing top six in Vancouver at 1.2 years ago on your fourth line you have guys like Oscar Scudden's quiz you have Nathan Walker there's so many bodies within this organization and Darius I don't know if you feel different but I kind of like the sense that Alex Dean is saying hey we have guys they're healthy guys they want to get into this lineup if anything happens we have someone hungry and ready to take that spot yeah and I think that when you look at the lineup and the reserves too I say the reserves like Springfield or whatever the plan is for some of these players they're going to carry extras every team always does and they did last year too but when you're looking at you know Springfield too there's a lot of guys like Sunquist like Nathan Walker for example they're not going to trade guys like that they like them they're character guys and working with Steve on some of the younger players and like you outlined even with Tyler Tucker injuries happened last year injuries happen you're going to need these guys so I kind of like it from that perspective in terms of hey these are really good quality character guys that we want to keep in the organization we're not looking to move off them just because their bodies because injuries happen we'd rather keep our guys that we're comfortable with and what assets are you going to get for them anyway maybe a draft pick what are you going to do with that draft pick anyway you want to keep some of these guys especially Walker and Sunquist I know a lot of you guys in the comments you know big fan the Blues fans in general love Nathan Walker all right like you do not want to trade that guy so it just makes sense keep them around the organization you'll see them at some point during the season there's two extra games this season you're going to need to use your depth and there's injuries are going to happen we're already seeing them in training camp around the league never mind just the Blues so I think that it makes a lot of sense now Mark before you wrap up I want to throw it back over to you because you know Suter this is a big thing you know this season too when you're talking about depth this guy's slotted to play on the fourth line obviously the Blues played tonight we're going to get a look at some of the other players and that top line which is very exciting too in in-game action today but what are your thoughts on Suter here because you know this is a major storyline going into this season I think as well and I think the biggest thing with Suter as well yes it's a guy that's going to play fourth line yes you're paying him a hefty contract but at the end of the day the Blues are kind of grace with skill on each and every line looking at you Suter yes you're paying him four mil on the season but hey if you don't need the cap space why not load it up looking at Puce I mean going through 13 goals last year 25 goals with the Vancouver Canucks you can see somewhere around 15 to 25 goals season after season Darius when you're matching up against other teams there's not a lot of teams that have someone that can bring that offensive power to that fourth line and looking at the Blues it's going to be a really hard line to play against when you're matched up against the fourth line with Puce Suter and some skill and size around him but I think the biggest thing is a lot of these guys can play up and down the lineup you have Puce Suter that played top line minutes before he can play wing center he can jump around even looking at other guys in that Jake Neighbors range where he can jump up you have Otto Stenberg that can make the jump from the AHL Justin Carvino is biting at the heels I truly think there's so much talent here and you don't want to trade out fan favorites Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy oi oi oi why trade out Nathan Walker when he can be a big part moving forward for this team let us know your thoughts on everything from Freeman's Report let us know your thoughts on this team heading in who do you think the extras are going to be would you trade any of these guys let us know your thoughts down in the comments I've been your host Mark with my co-host Darius and take care boys