Insider Insists Blues' Jordan Kyrou Is a Trade Candidate This Summer

St. Louis Blues' star forward Jordan Kyrou had another tremendous season on the scoresheet, pacing the team in goals with 36, and plus/minus rating with +23. He's topped the 30-goal mark for three straight seasons, is signed to a reasonable $8.125M AAV for another six years and is in his prime, at age 27.

So why would the St. Louis Blues even consider trading him as the team looks to try and find out who they really are going forward? According to insider Frank Seravalli, speaking on the What Chaos! podcast, they have an elite prospect ready to step right into his shoes, among other reasons:

My read of the situation and the marketplace is that Jimmy Snuggerud can come in and do for you what Jordan Kyrou could have or should have done. And if you're looking for an identity, and Kyrou has been there for kind of a long time now, and he hasn't provided one for you, then he's not capable of it.

Seravalli goes on to call the Blues a team "stuck in the middle," and a "flawed team.

"I think the sooner they can reinvent themselves and ask some serious foundational, fundamental questions, the better off they're going to be. And I think Kyrou might be the first log on the fire to try and figure that out."

That's a pretty enticing log to throw on the fire for any team looking for a big spark to heat up their offense.

After being potential sellers as the trade deadline approached, the Blues instead rode a late-season spark of their own right into the playoffs this past season, before suffering a heartbreaking Game 7 defeat to the Winnipeg Jets in the first round.