from Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

Defenseman Jay Bouwmeester was a huge disappointment, but his contract makes moving him difficult.

T.J Oshie seems like an obvious target, given his high trade value, significant salary and unproductive playoff. He also had the temerity to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the team was subjected to information overload.

Patrik Berglund had a couple of big playoff moments, but that scarcely helped fans forget his ineffective regular season. As Armstrong looks for ways to create payroll flexibility, Berglund's roster spot would be a good place to start.

It would be great to see venerable defenseman Barret Jackman finish his career where it started, but there is no room for sentimentality when a team keeps coming up short in the playoffs.

Armstrong could do something much bigger and trade previously untouchable players.Again, the core group of this team is clearly in transition.

An interesting summer awaits this franchise now that Hitchcock is back on board to start another year.

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