Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - offseason part I

[youryeah]

I’d be surprised if the Devils signed any real FA’s this offseason - probably a #7 dman, and some depth players.

I think you might be surprised. they need some help at forward and there's some good complementary players out there in FA that could really help imo

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

Believe it was reported at the time that they were not targeting someone who was taken in the top 10, and Domi was a likely candidate.

Regardless, everyone likes to highlight the one player who hit in retrospect rather than the ten other guys taken in that area that didn’t.

The trade was not Horvat for Schneider.

That's exactly how it is recorded history wise as he was the player picked with the pick traded for CS....

Schneider trade was fine on value. He gave us several years of being a top 3-5 goalie in the league. It was just shitty timing because the team was too washed to make use of it and then injuries wrecked him. If Schneider was available today given where this team is, I would make that trade again easily. There is no goalie available now like Schneider at the time, though.

It was at that time I wanted Devils to go full rebuild but you are right it was good value and that doesn't exist right now ....

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

I’d be surprised if the Devils signed any real FA’s this offseason - probably a #7 dman, and some depth players.

why? We have a ton of cap space

There are TONS of middle six forwards that I would to sign. Debrusk and Foegele at the top of the list.

 

[Devils Trap]

why? We have a ton of cap space

There are TONS of middle six forwards that I would to sign. Debrusk and Foegele at the top of the list.

I wouldnt mind Noesen for the bottom 6 as well

 

[Rhodes 81]

We currently don't really even have 12 NHL forwards under contract so they have to sign someone.

 

[Brodeur]

That's exactly how it is recorded history wise as he was the player picked with the pick traded for CS....

Sometimes it's unfair to judge it that way. Everybody craps on Edmonton for giving up the Matt Barzal pick but they would have taken Joel Eriksson-Ek had they kept it. Meanwhile nobody seems to give LA any grief for giving up a higher pick for a year of Milan Lucic mostly because Boston used the pick on Jakub Zboril. According to former Kings assistant GM Mike Futa, LA would have taken Barzal had they kept the pick. So is it more fair to say the Kings traded Barzal for Lucic or Zboril for Lucic?

 

[Stephen Gionta]

I think we may see the Devils sign 2-3 UFA forwards.

Stephenson, DeBrusk, Henrique, Joshua, Noesen, Wennberg, Toffoli, Bertuzzi, Martinook, Trenin, Foegele, Amadio, Cousins.

I would place a heavy, heavy wager on at least one of those players above playing for the Devils next season. Probably 2, maybe even 3.

Haula - Hughes - 1X
Bratt - Hischier - Meier
Palat - 2X - Mercer
3X - 4X - Lazar
Bastian, MacDermid


1X - Bertuzzi? DeBrusk? Toffoli?
2X - Stephenson? Henrique? Wennberg?
3x and 4x - Joshua? Noesen? Martinook? Trenin? Foegele? Amadio? Cousins? Nolan Foote?

 

[RSeen]

I think we may see the Devils sign 2-3 UFA forwards.

Stephenson, DeBrusk, Henrique, Joshua, Noesen, Wennberg, Toffoli, Bertuzzi, Martinook, Trenin, Foegele, Amadio, Cousins.

I would place a heavy, heavy wager on at least one of those players above playing for the Devils next season. Probably 2, maybe even 3.

Haula - Hughes - 1X
Bratt - Hischier - Meier
Palat - 2X - Mercer
3X - 4X - Lazar
Bastian, MacDermid


1X - Bertuzzi? DeBrusk? Toffoli?
2X - Stephenson? Henrique? Wennberg?
3x and 4x - Joshua? Noesen? Martinook? Trenin? Foegele? Amadio? Cousins? Nolan Foote?

None of the 1X unless you can get Bertuzzi at a decent price (unlikely).

None of 2X unless Henrique would join on a short-term deal

for 3X and 4X I'd go pretty much all of those players. Joshua would be my #1 target.

 

[Stephen Gionta]

None of the 1X unless you can get Bertuzzi at a decent price (unlikely).

None of 2X unless Henrique would join on a short-term deal

for 3X and 4X I'd go pretty much all of those players. Joshua would be my #1 target.

Why none of the 1X and 2X that arent Henrique and Bertuzzi??

I think adding Bertuzzi and Cousins would make the Devils much tougher to play against.

 

[AfroThunder396]

Why none of the 1X and 2X that arent Henrique and Bertuzzi??

I think adding Bertuzzi and Cousins would make the Devils much tougher to play against.

Toronto also thought adding Bertuzzi would make them tougher