Armstrong weighs free agency vs. trades
/Will Blues GM Doug Armstrong look at free agency or the trade market this summer to improve his team?
“I look at last year’s free-agent pool that was available — what players from that pool are excelling in this year’s playoffs ... are they the players that are pushing you over the top?” Armstrong said, via stltoday.com. “I’m not sure if free agency is the way to go.
“Then it’s getting a team to want to move a top-scoring player, and I know the cost of doing that. I haven’t found the team that really wants to give us the 50-goal guy yet. But I know the two or three names they’re going to ask for and that’s robbing Peter to pay Paul. There are good players out there. As I said, most of them usually stay with the teams that they’re at.”