How to handle the goalie situation

Created by: MartysBetter29

Team: 2023-24 New Jersey Devils

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 31, 2023

Published: Dec. 31, 2023

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

With the lack of consistency in goaltending play across the NHL over the last 5 years, I dont agree with using premium assets/cap space on a goalie. Especially a player like Gibson, who is on the wrong side of 30 with big money left. Give a shorter term guy like Comrie a chance, let him/Daws/Schmid compete for the net, they cant be worse than Vitek. If none of them have taken the reigns by TDL we can re-evaluate, but at least we will know we gave a smarter option a try.

Trades

NJD

Comrie, Eric

BUF

Waivers

Buyouts

Cory Schneider: $2,000,000
Janne Kuokkanen: $325,000

Recapture Fees

Ilya Kovalchuk: $250,000

Buried

Vitek Vanecek: $2,250,000 ($3,400,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$81,055,000	$422,500	$5,482,500	$2,445,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bratt, Jesper $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 8	Hughes, Jack $8,000,000$8,000,000 C UFA - 7	Toffoli, Tyler $2,125,000$2,125,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Holtz, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C UFA - 4	Mercer, Dawson $894,167$894,167 ($400,000$400K) RW, C RFA - 1
Haula, Erik $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 3	McLeod, Michael $1,400,000$1,400,000 C RFA - 1	Palat, Ondrej $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4
Smith, Brendan $1,100,000$1,100,000 LD/RD, LW UFA - 1	Lazar, Curtis $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C UFA - 2	Bastian, Nathan $1,350,000$1,350,000 RW UFA - 2
	Tierney, Chris $775,000$775,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Siegenthaler, Jonas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LD UFA - 5	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 4	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Hughes, Luke $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Miller, Colin $1,850,000$1,850,000 RD UFA - 1	Daws, Nico $850,833$850,833 ($57,500$58K) G RFA - 1
Bahl, Kevin $1,050,000$1,050,000 LD RFA - 2	Nemec, Simon $918,333$918,333 ($3,250,000$3M) RD RFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 5
	Nosek, Tomas $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1
	Meier, Timo $8,800,000$8,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 8

Top Comments

Dec. 31, 2023 at 2:50 p.m.

dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

Joined: Jan. 2023

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Stolarz, Mrazek, Nedjelkovic.

Dec. 31, 2023 at 3:30 p.m.

GiggywithGibby

Future Ducks legend

Joined: Jun. 2022

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You'll be out of a playoff spot by the TDL if things continue as they are.

Dec. 31, 2023 at 3:58 p.m.

NHLfan10506

Joined: May 2019

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I agree. Only unwanted goalies are available in-season. Maybe a guy like Vladar at deadline. But unlikely anyone better will be available without moving assets.

Best to save ammo for better option over the summer.

(Or add a dman!)

MartysBetter29 liked this.

Dec. 31, 2023 at 4:03 p.m.

NHLfan10506

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 40,513

Likes: 18,465

Quoting: dgibb10

Stolarz, Mrazek, Nedjelkovic.

Not sure any an improvement over what we have.

Dec. 31, 2023 at 4:22 p.m.

dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

Joined: Jan. 2023

Posts: 12,033

Likes: 3,188

Quoting: NHLfan10506

Not sure any an improvement over what we have.

All 100% an improvement on Vanacek.

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