St. Louis Blues transactions

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	2019-10-18 RW Chris Thorburn retired.	2019-10-18
	2019-10-17 signed RW Mathias Laferriere to a three-year, entry-level contract.	2019-10-17
	2019-10-04 signed C Brayden Schenn to an eight-year, $52 million contract extension.	2019-10-04
	2019-09-29 assigned G Adam Wilcox to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned G Ville Husso to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned LW Nathan Walker to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned RW Alexei Toropchenko to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned RW Austin Poganski to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned C Ryan Olsen to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned C Jordan Nolan to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned C Klim Kostin to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned C Tanner Kaspick to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned D Mitch Reinke to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 assigned D Andreas Borgman to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-29 recalled RW Alexei Toropchenko from San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-29
	2019-09-25 assigned D Mitch Reinke to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-25
	2019-09-24 Carolina Hurricanes TRADE ANALYSIS The St Louis Blues acquired Justin Faulk and a 2020 fifth round pick from the Carolina Hurricanes for Joel Edmundson, Dominik Bokk, and a 2021 seventh round draft pick	2019-09-24
	2019-09-24 waived LW Nathan Walker.	2019-09-24
	2019-09-22 assigned G Evan Fitzpatrick to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-22
	2019-09-22 assigned D Mitch Reinke to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-22
	2019-09-22 assigned C Dakota Joshua to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-22
	2019-09-22 assigned C Robby Jackson to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-22
	2019-09-22 assigned RW Mike Vecchione to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-22
	2019-09-21 assigned D Jake Dotchin to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-21
	2019-09-21 assigned D Joey Laleggia to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-21
	2019-09-21 (Nicholas Lappin) assigned RW Nick Lappin to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-21
	2019-09-21 assigned LW Jordan Nolan to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-21
	2019-09-21 assigned C Mike Vecchione to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-21
	2019-09-20 assigned D Rob O'Gara to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-20
	2019-09-20 assigned D Jake Christiansen to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-20
	2019-09-20 assigned RW Alexei Toropchenko to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-20
	2019-09-20 assigned C Nolan Stevens to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-20
	2019-09-20 assigned RW Evan Polei to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-20
	2019-09-20 assigned RW Zach Nastasiuk to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-20
	2019-09-20 assigned C Cameron Darcy to San Antonio (AHL).	2019-09-20
	2019-09-18 assigned RW Mathias Laferriere to Cape Breton (QMJHL).	2019-09-18
	2019-09-01 signed C Ivan Barbashev to a two-year, $2.95 million contract extension.	2019-09-01
	2019-08-06 re-signed D Joel Edmundson to a one-year, $3.1 million contract.	2019-08-06
	2019-08-01 signed C Nikita Alexandrov to a three-year, entry-level contract.	2019-08-01
	2019-07-25 Toronto Maple Leafs TRADE ANALYSIS The Toronto Maple Leafs traded Andreas Borgman to the St Louis Blues for Jordan Schmaltz	2019-07-25
	2019-07-21 re-signed C Oskar Sundqvist to a four-year, $11 million contract.	2019-07-21
	2019-07-20 signed G Ville Husso to a one-year, two-way contract.	2019-07-20
	2019-07-13 signed D Mitch Reinke to a one-year, two-way contract worth $750,000.	2019-07-13
	2019-07-08 re-signed LW Zach Sanford to a two-year, $3 million contract.	2019-07-08
	2019-07-03 announced D Chris Butler has retired.	2019-07-03
	2019-07-01 signed D Jake Dotchin to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.	2019-07-01
	2019-07-01 signed RW Nick Lappin to a one-year, two-way contract.	2019-07-01
	2019-07-01 signed LW Evan Polei to a one-year, two-way contract.	2019-07-01
	2019-07-01 signed C Mike Vecchione to a one-year, two-way contract.	2019-07-01
	2019-07-01 signed D Derrick Pouliot to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.	2019-07-01

Trades

NHL player transactions include the exchange of players, prospects, and draft picks among teams. Teams only have until the trade deadline, which tends to fall on the last week of February or the first week of March. The trade deadline for the current season is Monday, February 26, 2018.

Signings, Terminations & Injury Designations

Other ways the players on a team are impacted are through signings, terminations, and injury designations.

Free agents

Players who are free agents have no contract and are able to sign with any club. Previously, players could have unrestricted free agency if they were 31 years old or over. After the CBA came out of the lockout in 2005, the rules changed. Now, players aged 27 and over, as well as those with at least seven years in the NHL with expired contracts, can become unrestricted free agents. Plus, players aged 22 years and over who are not selected in the NHL Draft can sign with any team as a free agent.

Unrestricted free agents can start negotiating and signing contracts with any team after July 1 of each year. Before, teams were awarded with draft picks as compensation when they lost unrestricted free agents. Since 2004, there has been no compensation.

Buyouts

Buyouts occur when teams buy a player at the end of a season for the remainder of the player’s contract. This impacts both pay and cap hit. For players under the age of 26, pay and cap hit are reduced by two-thirds. For players aged 26 to 35, pay and cap hit are reduced by one-third. Finally, for players over the age of 35, pay is reduced by one-third but cap hit is not reduced. In addition, the new team pays over twice the period of the remaining contract.

Injured Reserve List

Players who are injured, disabled, or sick and unable to play for at least seven days cannot be bought out. Instead, their teams may place them on the Injured Reserve List. A club can only put a player on the Injured Reserve List if the player had previously passed the initial physical examination of the season. The team can then replace the player on its NHL roster with someone else.

Assigning Players to the Minors & Call-Ups

If a player has already participated in a defined number of games or he has played in a certain number of seasons since the signing of the original contract, the player must be available to all NHL teams before he is assigned to the minors. This is called 'clearing waivers,' and it means that other NHL teams can 'claim' the player from the 'waiver wire,' meaning they assume the contract, and provide only a small financial compensation to the team from which the player originated. When players clear waivers, their teams have the right to loan them to a minor affiliate, typically an AHL team, or they can choose to keep them in their club. Once cleared, players don't need to do it again for the lesser of either 30 cumulative days on the roster, or until they've played in 10 games in the NHL.

Players can also rise from the minors to an NHL team. This is known as a call-up. Players may be called up due to an injury or suspension of another player, or a team can use a regular call-up of minor league affiliates who are yet to sign a contract.

The AHL

The AHL, or American Hockey League, is the primary development league for the NHL. The AHL is currently made up of 30 teams. Since there are currently 31 NHL teams, 3 NHL Teams are sharing 2 AHL teams. There are plans for the AHL to expand to 31 teams, so that each NHL team can once again have their own exclusive affiliate.

The ECHL

The ECHL (previously the East Coast Hockey League) is a mid-level league with teams from across the U.S. and Canada. It is the only other league (along with the AHL) to which all players with entry-level NHL contracts must report.

Roster Limits

Each team in the NHL has a roster limit of:

50 players on contract
20 players on “dressed list” for games
23 players on the active NHL roster
90 players on the reserve list

Players in the AHL and ECHL are part of the 50 contract limit but don’t contribute to the 23 active roster limit.

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