Trading AJ

Created by: NJDevils1317

Team: 2021-22 New Jersey Devils

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 10, 2021

Published: Oct. 3, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

The salaries are pretty much the same, but Connolly is more built more for bottom six, has playoff experience (should that matter for the Devils and the season goes well) and could be a positive guy for Wood and McLeod.
Connolly is currently a cap hit in the minors for CHI. Worst case for CHI, they save $100k.

Johnsson could still provide offense for CHI if he plays at the pro-level as they would still have cap room with Shaw on LTIR.

Also, if Connolly unfortunately goes back to suffering from concussions, the Devils won't be in cap hell when dealing with it and will allow someone else to step up. Also, the Devils won't have to keep working to find a home for AJ where he works as it just doesn't seem to be working...

By the way, this is more so looking at a roster in December and less so for opening day as Holtz might need time to cook.

Free Agent Signings

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Vesey, Jimmy		1	$770,000
Jankowski, Mark		1	$770,000

Trades

Retained Salary Transactions

Will Butcher: $910,569 (24.39%)

Recapture Fees

Ilya Kovalchuk: $250,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$70,291,402	$0	$3,650,000	$11,208,598

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Tatar, Tomas $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Hughes, Jack $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) C UFA - 1	Sharangovich, Yegor $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2
Zacha, Pavel $2,250,000$2,250,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C UFA - 6	Bratt, Jesper $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Kuokkanen, Janne $1,825,000$1,825,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Mercer, Dawson $894,167$894,167 ($400,000$400K) RW, C RFA - 3	Holtz, Alexander $925,000$925,000 RW, LW RFA - 4
Wood, Miles $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW UFA - 1	McLeod, Michael $975,000$975,000 C RFA - 2	Connolly, Brett $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $3,166,667$3,166,667 LD UFA - 2	Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Blackwood, Mackenzie $2,800,000$2,800,000 G UFA - 2
Smith, Ty $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Severson, Damon $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 2	Bernier, Jonathan $4,125,000$4,125,000 G UFA - 2
Siegenthaler, Jonas $1,125,000$1,125,000 LD UFA - 2	Subban, P.K. $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Jankowski, Mark $770,000$770,000 C, LW UFA - 1
Vesey, Jimmy $770,000$770,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Jaros, Christian $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Wedgewood, Scott $825,000$825,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Tatar, T.		Zacha, P.		Sharangovich, Y.
	Hughes, J.		Hamilton, D.

Power Play 2
Holtz, A.		Hischier, N.		Bratt, J.
	Mercer, D.		Smith, T.

Penalty Kill 1
	Hischier, N.	Sharangovich, Y.
	Graves, R.	Severson, D.

Penalty Kill 2
	McLeod, M.	Mercer, D.
	Siegenthaler, J.	Subban, P.

Top Comments

Oct. 3, 2021 at 10:53 p.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 9,844

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Honestly, no deal. The buyout option is better on Connolly. I also dislike AJ because of how much he was spam traded to the Hawks back in the day.

Oct. 3, 2021 at 10:55 p.m.

TMLBRIAN

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 9,511

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Edited Oct. 3, 2021 at 11:05 p.m.

Is AJ really struggling that much in NJ? That is so sad to me.

As a Leaf fan I love the guy. Super hard working, skilled player. MVP when we won the calder cup and was good on the Leafs. I thought he was a perfect fit for NJ since they needed wingers.

I hope they give him one last shot before moving on from him. I still beleive!

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Oct. 3, 2021 at 11:05 p.m.

exo2769

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 15,643

Likes: 9,764

I'm going to take just a second to let you understand how Hawks fans feel about AJ. He's 100% worse than Connolly. Just because NJD gave up an asset for him doesn't mean he's worth $1M. He's a very bad hockey player. VERY BAD. When he was with TOR he got to play with Matthews AND Nylander. He was literally the 2nd most propped up player in the entire NHL behind Kassian. Connolly may not be a good player. I get that, BUT he's definitely better than AJ and have a better buyout. At least send us a 2nd round pick for that bag of pucks that you're just realizing is a bag of pucks.

@ChiHawk

Oct. 4, 2021 at 12:03 a.m.

Devil

Speak of the Devil

Joined: Nov. 2017

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Quoting: TMLBRIAN

It looks like the Devils are giving him one last shot. He's been practicing with Nico and Bratt on the second like in training camp

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Oct. 4, 2021 at 12:09 a.m.

TMLBRIAN

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 9,511

Likes: 4,170

Quoting: Devil1122

It looks like the Devils are giving him one last shot. He's been practicing with Nico and Bratt on the second like in training camp

Okay good good! I hope he succeeds!

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