Blues get Kariya

It was annouced today that the St Louis Blues had come to terms with yet another unrestricted free agent. Steve Kariya will report to the Blues training camp when it opens in early september as the newest member of the Blues forward core. He was signed to a 4 year deal worth 1.2 mil per year he was also given 250K to help him to move to St Louis. GM Foley was asked about the aquisition after the announcement and had this to say, "We thought we really had a shot at Connolly but when GM Anderson exercised his option to match our offer we took it as an oportunity to sign Steve. Steve will bring a lot of speed to our team and will surely help us to improve."




In other news the Coyotees also exercised there option to match the Blues offer to Brenden Morrow. The Blues also made an offer to UFA Trevor Kidd who would have come in as the Blues backup goalie to replace Fred Brathwaite Unfortunately Kidd also felt that he would not benifit as a Blue and took a similar offer from the Penguins. When asked if there where any other players the Blues would go after GM Foley had these comment, "We feel that the FA pool has been pretty much exausted. We will likely not be making any other offers but will instead look to trade one or 2 of our defencemen to bring in a solid backup and we will continue to look for a top line center with the departure of Lindros that will continue to be our #1 need.