The current Canes team is worse than the Blues were. That's why we're disagreeing.
Also the Blues were not the preseason 11th pick after the ROR trade, that is silly. They were a great roster that had been decimated by the wretched horrorshow that is Jake Allen and Doug Armstrong had the junkie fix for him until Binnington just broke him away.
I watch the Canes and love RBA and root for them as my adopted playoff team the last two years but they are not in this ballpark:
2018-2019 Blues roster GP
Bouwmeester 1240 regular, 74 playoffs, 17 NHL seasons + 1 lockout year, retired
Perron 1131 regular, 104 playoffs, 17 NHL seasons, active (missed 99 games due to Thornton)
ROR 1073 regular, 81 playoffs, 15 NHL seasons, active
Steen 1018 regular, 91 playoffs, 15 NHL seasons (would have played in lockout year too), retired
Pietrangelo 1016 regular, 139 playoffs, 14 full + 2 partial NHL seasons, active
Schenn 940 regular, 75 playoffs, 13 full + 2 partial NHL seasons, active
Bozak 814 regular season games, 68 playoffs, 13 NHL seasons, retired
Maroon 780 regular, 160 playoffs through Friday, 11 full + 2 partial NHL seasons, active
Tarasenko 753 regular, 105 playoffs through Friday (he scored), 12 NHL seasons, active (missed a lot due to injury)
Schwartz 730 regular, 102 playoffs, 12 full + 1 partial NHL seasons, active
Parayko 659 regular, 82 playoffs, 9 NHL seasons, active
Gunnarsson 629 regular, 68 playoffs, 12 NHL seasons, retired
Bortuzzo 560 regular, 60 playoffs, 12 full + 2 partial NHL seasons, active
Edmundson 530 regular, 82 playoffs, 9 NHL seasons, active
Barbashev 515 regular, 79 playoffs, 8 NHL seasons, active
Dunn 480 regular, 43 playoffs, 7 NHL seasons, active
Sundqvist 426 regular, 37 playoffs, 7 full + 2 partial NHL seasons, active
Fabbri 398 regular 30 playoffs, 8 NHL seasons 1 fully missed, active
Thomas 396 regular, 45 playoffs, 6 NHL seasons, active
Sanford 334 regular, 35 playoffs, 8 kinda NHL seasons, semi-active
Binnington 280 regular, 41 playoffs, 6 NHL seasons, active
Blais 257 regular, 27 playoffs, 7 NHL seasons, active
Was a Word Hero those playoffs apparently:
Allen 429 regular, 29 playoffs, 11 NHL seasons, active