Blues Press Release

ST.LOUIS - The Blues made a trade to division rival Blackhawks. Straight to the deal.

In: D Eric Brewer, D Casey Borer, D Jan Hedja

Out: D Mark Katic, D Cameron Gauce, D Ryan Ellis, RW Raffi Torres

Good deal? Depends. Maybe for now it favors the Hawks, but in the end it may work out for the Blues. Perhaps its a deal a lot of GMs will say favor the Hawks and the Blues got the short end of the stick, although the Blues see otherwise. Could Brewer have been taken in the waiver draft. Possibly, but then again maybe not. The Blues can now concentrate on getting another strong defensemen or concentrate squarely on forwards.

Stranger things have happened in the PHL and this might be a worthwhile risk. The Blues can still rebuild as they still have a main core of defensemen down on the farm and kept intact their forwards as well as their picks and trainings camps. The Pro acquired a really good pro D that can help down the stretch, not to improve the team overall but maybe some of the players. The team has been playing .500 hockey as of late and beating some really good teams at that.

Anyways we felt generous to the Blackhawks, so we gave them a late Christmas present. Merry Christmas Brent. Hope my team doesn't sneak in and knock you guys out as that would be quite sad, even if your plan is to downgrade heading into the playoffs.