St. Louis Blues Should Roll The Dice And Keep Radek Faksa

[blues2112]

If they want to trade Texier there won't be any shortage of teams that are willing to take a shot on him.

You won't get much back, but you wouldn't have to attach anything either

In a vacuum, at 2.1 million cap hit, he's worth holding onto, only 25.

BUT, does he fit into Montgomery's plans? He was frequently a healthy scratch.

[b-a-a-a-rclay]

If they want to trade Texier there won't be any shortage of teams that are willing to take a shot on him.

You won't get much back, but you wouldn't have to attach anything either

In a vacuum, at 2.1 million cap hit, he's worth holding onto, only 25.

BUT, does he fit into Montgomery's plans? He was frequently a healthy scratch.

Right. I think he's going to the first team that asks about him without asking for anything to be attached. "Future Considerations"

[skilles]

I'd personally like to hold on to Texier but we just don't have a spot.

[BluesDom]

Dylan Peterson has a similar body type to Faksa. If you replace him--you need a big body.
Faksa is a big guy naturally. I would not bring back Faksa. I think you have to allow some internal promotion. Why draft all these guys if the goal isnt the NHL. You can use them as chips--but it motivates the draftees to see NHL promotion. Good for the organization. Homegrown talent etc.

Faksa was awesome. I do understand signing him. But Sundqvist already has a contract. Hes another big body.
Sunny, Peterson--Stancl after that.

[skilles]

Dylan Peterson has a similar body type to Faksa. If you replace him--you need a big body.
Faksa is a big guy naturally. I would not bring back Faksa. I think you have to allow some internal promotion. Why draft all these guys if the goal isnt the NHL. You can use them as chips--but it motivates the draftees to see NHL promotion. Good for the organization. Homegrown talent etc.

Faksa was awesome. I do understand signing him. But Sundqvist already has a contract. Hes another big body.
Sunny, Peterson--Stancl after that.

Faksa wins big faceoffs and we need that. If you want to promote youth Faksa is not the guy to replace.

[BluesDom]

Dylan Peterson has a similar body type to Faksa. If you replace him--you need a big body.
Faksa is a big guy naturally. I would not bring back Faksa. I think you have to allow some internal promotion. Why draft all these guys if the goal isnt the NHL. You can use them as chips--but it motivates the draftees to see NHL promotion. Good for the organization. Homegrown talent etc.

Faksa was awesome. I do understand signing him. But Sundqvist already has a contract. Hes another big body.
Sunny, Peterson--Stancl after that.

Faksa wins big faceoffs and we need that. If you want to promote youth Faksa is not the guy to replace.

For the right deal--makes perfect sense.
He was pretty awesome at his role. It will be interesting.

[dhsux]

Is Dean healthy?

Also, was he not traded for to be in a top 6 role back then? Is he a true 4th line guy and willing/able to play that style of hockey?

Dean came back healthy at the end of the year and looked good, however he has only been projected as a 3C/4C never a top 6 role. Definitely projects as a center as of now.

Thanks...man this team seems jammed up but in a good way. Can't help but wonder if DA will move multiple pieces to try to get the 2 big needs.

Hate the thought of who goes and equally big who comes but I'm reluctantly coming around to the idea of it.

[STL fan in MN]

Dylan Peterson has a similar body type to Faksa. If you replace him--you need a big body.
Faksa is a big guy naturally. I would not bring back Faksa. I think you have to allow some internal promotion. Why draft all these guys if the goal isnt the NHL. You can use them as chips--but it motivates the draftees to see NHL promotion. Good for the organization. Homegrown talent etc.

Faksa was awesome. I do understand signing him. But Sundqvist already has a contract. Hes another big body.
Sunny, Peterson--Stancl after that.

I think Peterson becomes an NHLer but he’s a winger. Faksa would be a C. So don’t really see Peterson replacing Faksa directly. And don’t think Peterson will be NHL ready in Sept/Oct. More likely in another year.

[STL fan in MN]

I’m not sure I’d refer to keeping Faksa as rolling the dice but I’d certainly consider retaining him. That said, Sunny is already signed so if they do end up adding a 2/3C then Sunny could play 4C. Or we could re-sign Faksa and Sunny can play 4RW. Wouldn’t be the worst think in the world to have Faksa, Sunny, Torpo and Walker all competing with each other for 3 roster spots each night. Would be good depth.

[Old_Goat]

Make a FAIR offer for both NOT too much $ and time; and see what happens. I suspect Faksa recognizes this could be a good place to finish out? If Faksa goes, then keep Sunqvist for his remaining year as a fill-in back up capacity.
Move on from these three this summer anyway possible in the following priority order: Texier, Joseph, Sunqvist -- again keep Sunqvist only if Faksa goes.
I don't care about occasional rookie mistakes...for the money some of these hungry kids can do just as well as Texier and Joseph -- I'm not talking about Dvorsky...he is a potential talent that needs to be developed differently. And Walker is capable as a 4th Line Center.
Have to make smart pickup of another 2nd line Center and another Top 4 Center with size and defensive reliability.
All a tall order, but we are not that far away.

I mistyped...I meant to say, "...smart pickup of another 2nd line Center and another Top 4 DEFENSEMAN with size and defensive reliability." -- Sorry about that.

[Section315]

Per Army Dylan Peterson is about ready, too.

Yes, a viable option at 4C.

[a smell of green grass]

Faksa is great, but it's time to take off the training wheels. Put the best young prospect 4C in there that we got, and hope for the best.

[Zizzle1297]

Any chance that we just see Alexandrov get another look? He was a point per game player this year. Does anyone know if he was playing center and did his face off numbers improve?