Potential moves for Steve Yzerman to make

can't see Zadina having anywhere near that trade value. he's a reclamation project, a top 10 pick in 2018 who's yet to pan out

I mean if you get Bedard he's on the roster next season, if you get Fantilli it's probably 50/50 if he goes back for 1 more year of college. I can see Zadina bring moved but no one's paying anything for him and no way you move Chairot without paying to do it. No one takes that garbage deal for free.

Blues have enough veteran leadership. Also have enough niche usage long term defensive contracts. Only way Chairot coming in makes sense is if Krug is going the other way and Scandella is being moved elsewhere.

This would give the Blues the following Contracts:
Parayko 8 years 6.5m
Krug 4 Years 6.5m
Faulk 4 Years 6.5m
Leddy 3 Years 4m
Chairot 3 years 4.75m
Scandella 1 year 3.25m

That is a defense lacking a true #1 D and 3 years locked in at around 30m in cap. Not a good formula at all. Individually I dont think any of these are necessarily awful contracts, and i haven't watched Chairot much but he may be a good compliment to Parayko in a shutdown role. You just can't dedicate that much cap to 5 defensemen and not feel like it's a major strength of the team.

Scott Mayfield will get 4 x $4,000,000

No way St Louis takes Ben Chiarot, They've a backlog of LD like we do. Unless we take back Krug which kind of defeats the purpose. Ben Chiarot isn't going anywhere.

Pius Suter will probably get in the 3 x $3,000,000 to $3,500,000 per range.

Wings aren't getting anything more than a 4th for him. Hes only hit 0.50 ppg o n c e in his career for a guy whose supposed to be a goal scorer