You'd have to retain on Russell for sure

Probably a million

Decent team few things though

I don't like 10th for Patches.. since there's going to be some really good options at 10 although you got ++ so its better.

Loaded up on RW prospects while LW is dry as Yamamoto is RW as well, Possible cheap solutions (Benning for Baertschi, or flip a RW prospect for LW (Skinner for Yamamoto+2nd), or target Nelson from NYI instead of Ho-sang)

Nelson could work just hard to work things in since we are a budgeting team I really like our defense tho

I mean Bear as 7th D doesn't really help us in longterm, if he is NHL ready then he should be getting minutes so that frees up moving Benning if it can net you something, then sign Franson or Folin as 7th D

If not ready same UFA Franson or Folin for 7th D and send Bear to Bakerfield and keep Benning as 6th D

Keep Jones. Nice young player, but not what the Blues need. If you want Parayko AND Kyrou, it's going to cost Draisatl and Nurse, with picks going both ways to even things out. We'd want to add Sobotka, too.