So everybody seems to want Shattenkirk around, but as he made the drive last week from his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y., to St. Louis for his sixth training camp with the Blues, he had no idea how long his time here would last.

“The thought of making that 15-hour drive out here and going somewhere (else) in a couple of days would be pretty frustrating,” Shattenkirk said. “If it is my last year, it would hurt, no doubt, leaving a lot of buddies. But it’s been a hell of a time and I think that’s the mentality that I’ve brought into camp. I don’t want to let anyone down and I don’t want to have anything in the back of my mind that’s going to keep me from playing my best hockey.

“Army has always said throughout the whole thing that he’s not just going to make a deal to make a deal, and he’d be more than happy if I were back here on the team, and I’ve always had that in the back of my mind. Things change at any given moment. It’s one of those things where all summer you’re focused on, ‘Where am I going?’ and then all of the sudden something could change and you could be staying here. If that were to happen, that would be fantastic.”

But until Shattenkirk is traded or re-signed, the speculation probably won’t die down.

“This is something that I think is going to go on all year, it’s always a story that people are going to run with,” Shattenkirk said. “But for me, I can only control what I do on the ice and if I’m giving 100 percent out there, whatever happens, happens. I can control it to a certain point, but if something is going to go down, it’s going to go down.”

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