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Post by blny on Sept 24, 2019 13:38:54 GMT -5
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Post by blny on Sept 24, 2019 13:40:14 GMT -5
Of note, Faulk has one year left on his current deal. He'll be 28 when the new one starts, and this takes him to 35 years old.
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Post by folatre on Sept 24, 2019 17:50:08 GMT -5
Faulk is top four on virtually every team in the league. He is a good power play weapon. And he played really well in the playoffs last spring. So I guess his contract is not crazy for a UFA (he was in control here). If anything, I feel like what happened to Jake Gardiner is the outlier data point.
The trade is a little harder to judge because the main piece for Carolina is not ready to have any NHL impact this season and probably not even next season. I liked Bokk in his draft year. Honestly I have been following him much since the draft. Edmundson is okay, just a one year place holder for Carolina because they will not re-sign him as a UFA and they supposedly have kids (Fleury and Bean) who actually should already be ready to hold down a third pair role unless something has gone wrong with the original evaluations of their talent.
It is basically Faulk for Bokk, a veteran top four d-man for a talented forward prospect who projected when he was drafted to be a second line NHL wing material. The Blues are better today but perhaps not in the future. And considering that Armstrong got the huge monkey off the back of the St. Louis Blues organization, I kind of wonder why he is pushing more chips into the middle of the table when he has probably built up enough credit as a Stanley Cup architect to take a longer term perspective. Who knows, perhaps the Blues are not convinced that Bokk is any sort of a lock to develop into a top six wing.
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