Darren Dreger on TSN Radio on the possibility of the Blues trading forward T.J. Oshie.
“Well I know that Doug Armstrong is listening to the interest in TJ Oshie and you’d guess that there would be a fair bit of interest in him. He hasn’t been in the game long enough where he’s got warts or any sort of obvious flaw. Is he as high-end a player as what the Blues or some were hoping? Maybe not, but he’s still young enough that there’s hope and there’s promise.
You know, on a lot of teams he could easily fit in their top-6, on a deeper team, man he would be a great top-9 forward.
But you’re right, there’s some salary cap issues so the St. Louis Blues are both looking to make some room financially, but also shake things up a little bit and his name is out there, Berglund’s name is out there.
There’s some who are hinting at David Backes, not sure I’m buying that entirely but I know this about Doug Armstrong, he’s crafty and look when you just reject the idea of trade discussion on a certain player, then I don’t think you’re doing your job because what happens is, you might not want to trade that player and have no intention of trading that player, but often times it’ll flip to another player just based on the dialogue that’s going back and forth but TJ Oshie’s name is definitely out there”
Transcribed by Platinum Seat Ghosts from TSN 1050 Radio