With the 2021-2022 National Hockey League season quickly approaching, the St. Louis Blues announced a pair of moves over the weekend, one involving the on-ice roster for the team, and the other locking in the club’s general manager for another five years.
St. Louis, on Saturday, traded away veteran forward Zach Sanford to the Ottawa Senators, acquiring St. Louis native Logan Brown in the process. Sanford played 52 games for the Blues in the 2020-2021 season, scoring only 10 goals. In 209 career games with the Blues and Capitals, Sanford has 38 goals and 36 assists, and he was a member of the 2019 Stanley Cup championship in St. Louis.
If Brown plays in more than 30 games for St. Louis this season, the team will receive a conditional draft pick from Ottawa in the swap. Brown is much less established at the pro level than Sanford, with just 30 career games under his belt, with one goal and eight assists, all with Ottawa.
Longtime Blues president of hockey operations and general manager Doug Armstrong was signed to a five-year contract extension on Saturday, with the 57-year old remaining with the organization he joined as assistant GM in 2008.
Armstrong began his executive career with the Minnesota North Stars in the early 1990s, with that franchise moving to Dallas in 1993, where he was assistant general manager for the 1999 Stanley Cup champions. He served as general manager of the Stars from 2002 to 2008 before his move to St. Louis. In 11 seasons as GM of the Blues, the franchise has reached the postseason nine times.
