‘”We just think this gives us a better opportunity to have success this year and it also allows us to keep our prime assets,” Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said. “There’s a few players that were discussed we wouldn’t part with, some of our signed players that are currently with our team. We wanted to keep the guys like Jake Allen, Dmitrij Jaskin and maybe one or two other players. When we were able to keep those players, it seemed like a deal that made sense for us.”‘