[Roughneck]

With the Blues making waves again in the RFA world, they had a wild stretch in the early 90s.

First they offer sheeted Scott Steven’s which Washington failed to match and had to give up five 1st Round Picks.

After one season they signed Shanahan to an offer sheet and compensation had to be negotiated: an arbitrator awarded Stevens while the Blues had offered Cujo and Brind’Amour. Steven’s didn’t want to go to New Jersey but eventually reported.

Then in 1994 they signed Peter Nedved to an offer sheet, who was a holdout with the Canucks. Similarly, they didn’t have the compensation because their 1994 1st Rounder had gone to Washington from the Stevens signing and compensation had to be awarded again. An arbitrator awarded Craig Janney and a pick. The Canucks didn’t want Janney (and the Blues supposedly did) so they immediately traded him back to the Blues for Bret Hedican and two other players and St. Louis traded Janney to the Sharks.