Don’t expect the St. Louis Blues to trade Colton Parayko 

Yesterday, our insider Frank Seravalli dropped his new Trade Targets board and hinted that at No. 11 Doug Armstrong and the St. Louis Blues could move on from one of their defensemen this summer.

Today on Daily Faceoff Live, Frank Seravalli talked about St. Louis Blues defenseman Colton Parayko and why the blueliner is not among those to be dealt by the Blues.

Tyler Yaremchuk: Your new trade targets board dropped yesterday and I thought it was interesting at the spot where you had three St. Louis Blues defensemen listed. Fair or foul, could the Blues move multiple defensemen in Nick Leddy, Torey Krug and Justin Faulk?

Frank Seravalli: Yeah, the one guy I don’t see them moving is Colton Parayko. He had a tremendous season for the Blues and his cap hit 6.5 million, I know that people go “Oh but the term remaining on that deal, and he’s a big guy” but I don’t have concerns about the term for bigger guys, I think it’s shown over time that they age pretty well. Look at Tyler Myers on the back of his contract, now the Canucks are like “Oh we should re-sign this guy.” Parayko has that term left but he has been so good and at $6.5 million three years from now you will be laughing at that price for a defenseman of his stature.

Frank Seravalli: The question is, can they move one of these guys? I think it’s foul that they moved on from multiple because they all got no-trade protection. But that’s the point of this item on the trade board, for multiple years the Blues have been trying to move a defenseman, they have missed the playoffs two years in a row and they need to do more, and change it up. To march it back year after year with the same top-four that isn’t working doesn’t make a lot of sense to me and I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to Doug Armstrong either.