Would either team do this

Created by: FloppyBiscuit

Team: 2023-24 New Jersey Devils

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 24, 2022

Published: Sep. 8, 2022

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

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hughes, Luke		3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bahl, Kevin	2	$800,000
McLeod, Michael	2	$1,200,000
Bastian, Nathan	1	$775,000
Zetterlund, Fabian	1	$900,000
Bratt, Jesper	7	$7,875,000
Blackwood, Mackenzie	1	$2,900,000
Boqvist, Jesper	1	$1,500,000
Meier, Timo	8	$8,625,000

Trades

NJD

Meier, Timo [RFA Rights]
Vlasic, Marc-Édouard

Additional Details:

Vlasic waives NMC as NJ agrees to buy him out so he can re-sign with SJ for league min, a la Patrick Marleau to the Canes

SJS

Sharangovich, Yegor [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Someone like Yegor or Boqvist

Buyouts

Cory Schneider: $2,000,000
Janne Kuokkanen: $325,000
Marc-Édouard Vlasic: $1,444,445

Recapture Fees

Ilya Kovalchuk: $250,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$76,849,445	$422,500	$4,500,000	$6,650,555

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Palat, Ondrej $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Hughes, Jack $8,000,000$8,000,000 C UFA - 7	Bratt, Jesper $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 8
Meier, Timo $8,625,000$8,625,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C UFA - 4	Holtz, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Boqvist, Jesper $1,500,000$1,500,000 C, LW RFA - 1	McLeod, Michael $1,200,000$1,200,000 C RFA - 1	Mercer, Dawson $894,167$894,167 ($400,000$400K) RW, C RFA - 1
Foote, Nolan $863,333$863,333 LW RFA - 1	Zetterlund, Fabian $900,000$900,000 RW RFA - 2	Bastian, Nathan $775,000$775,000 RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Siegenthaler, Jonas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LD UFA - 5	Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Vanecek, Vitek $3,400,000$3,400,000 G UFA - 2
Hughes, Luke $950,000$950,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 4
Bahl, Kevin $800,000$800,000 LD RFA - 2	Nemec, Simon $918,333$918,333 ($3,250,000$3M) RD RFA - 3	Blackwood, Mackenzie $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Smith, Brendan $1,100,000$1,100,000 LD/RD, LW UFA - 1
Thompson, Tyce $762,500$762,500 RW RFA - 1

Top Comments

Sep. 8, 2022 at 2:33 p.m.

NJDevils1317

Joined: Aug. 2021

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Well, first of all there is a HUGE drop from Sharangovich to Boqvist, but beyond that, SJS is going to be looking for a young player like Sharangovich AND a 2023 1st at the very least. I get them asking for guys like Holtz too, but in the end I would really need to see how many teams fit the center of a Venn diagram of A) Having assets to trade B) Willingness to trade now to win soon/now C) Cap room. Meier having the $10m QO is looked over by many, but it does mean Meier controls a lot of this on where he chooses to extend as he could choose to take the QO and become a UFA.

Sep. 8, 2022 at 2:36 p.m.

NJDevils1317

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To the other point about Vlasic, I wouldn't touch that buy out with anything remotely big going to SJS, but at the same time I don't know why SJS would just try to dump him by eliminating value of a player as SJS is going to be bad for a while. They might as well max out on assets as they rebuild.

Sep. 8, 2022 at 2:51 p.m.

FloppyBiscuit

Joined: Apr. 2018

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Quoting: NJDevils1317

Dumping Vlasic at the cost of Meier opens a lot of cap space and San Jose could shoot for a combo of a few of the upcoming UFA's like Pastrnak, Tarasenko, Bertuzzi, Patches, Weegar, Severson, etc to try to make another run. 2-3 of those players (plus Eklund and other prospects developing further) could likely compensate for the loss of Meier.

To counter my own argument, though, New Jersey could just wait and target the same UFA's instead of taking on the Vlasic dead cap. Guess it depends on if NJ sees any extra value in the Swiss-Swiss connection of Meier-Hischier, which is mostly what I was shooting for here..

Sep. 8, 2022 at 2:58 p.m.

glarson17

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 8,145

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No, San Jose isn’t moving their best player just to get rid of Vlasic. If he’s moved by himself he’s getting a 1st and a top prospect to start. Vlasic can be bought out.