Could it happen again

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Created by: Opie

Team: 2022-23 New Jersey Devils

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 6, 2022

Published: Feb. 11, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Could the Lottery fall to NJ again? Have a feeling the Montreal ball will have a special weight to it to guarantee it falls first, but a guy can dream.

Would love to watch a Bratt-Hughes-Mercer line ... and Hughes-Hischier-Wright-McLeod down the middle would be rock solid & versatile. Need the right bench coach, but the ability to create favorable match ups, with that line up, would certainly be there.

Assuming some combo of Zacha, Johnsson, Tatar and/or Kuokkanen are traded, if there is a deal to be had. Tatar's & maybe Johnsson's contracts may be a tough sell, but both are in final year.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bratt, Jesper	5	$5,500,000
Boqvist, Jesper	1	$850,000
Studenic, Marian	1	$750,000
Thompson, Tyce	1	$850,000
Wood, Miles	1	$2,500,000
Zacha, Pavel	3	$4,500,000
Zetterlund, Fabian	1	$750,000
White, Colton	1	$750,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Wright, Shane		3	$950,000

Buyouts

Cory Schneider: $2,000,000

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
24	$81,500,000	$70,805,833	$0	$1,815,000	$10,694,167

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bratt, Jesper $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Hughes, Jack $8,000,000$8,000,000 C UFA - 8	Mercer, Dawson $894,167$894,167 ($400,000$400K) RW, C RFA - 2
Zacha, Pavel $4,500,000$4,500,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C UFA - 5	Sharangovich, Yegor $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1
Boqvist, Jesper $850,000$850,000 C, LW RFA - 1	Wright, Shane $950,000$950,000	Holtz, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
	McLeod, Michael $975,000$975,000 C RFA - 1	Bastian, Nathan $825,000$825,000 RW UFA - 1
Wood, Miles $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW UFA - 1	Kuokkanen, Janne $1,825,000$1,825,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Tatar, Tomas $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Johnsson, Andreas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Graves, Ryan $3,166,667$3,166,667 LD UFA - 1	Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Blackwood, Mackenzie $2,800,000$2,800,000 G UFA - 1
Siegenthaler, Jonas $1,125,000$1,125,000 LD UFA - 1	Severson, Damon $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 1	Schmid, Akira $850,833$850,833 ($82,500$82K) G RFA - 2
Smith, Ty $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Walsh, Reilly $925,000$925,000 RD UFA - 1
Bahl, Kevin $795,000$795,000 ($82,500$82K) LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Bernier, Jonathan $4,125,000$4,125,000 G UFA - 1

Feb. 11, 2022 at 1:43 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Montreal may lose the draft since there will be no attendees. And I am not even certain Wright goes 1st overall. If we were to win another lottery (and its been 3 years, so we're due), I would think we would have to strongly consider Cooley or one of the big RDs

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Feb. 11, 2022 at 1:51 p.m.

Tintin

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

I wouldn’t mind moving down 6-7 spots if Devils won the lottery. Think that the top 10 names for the draft or more or less interchangeable in talent and potential. Could definitely get Jiricek or Nemec at 7 or smthn.

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Feb. 11, 2022 at 2:16 p.m.

Smitty426

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Quoting: PaulieWalnuts

if we got 1OA and Wright is 1 or 2 as long as we could get one of the RD men what is the ask to get a team to move up from 3-4, to 1?

Feb. 11, 2022 at 2:28 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: PaulieWalnuts

Quoting: Smitty426

if we got 1OA and Wright is 1 or 2 as long as we could get one of the RD men what is the ask to get a team to move up from 3-4, to 1?

I think Cooley, Wright, and the two big RDs are all gone in top-5. My 5th would be Lambert. Maybe even Chesley or Lekkerimaki.

So I'd agree, move back to #3-5 at most...

Who moves up though? And whats the payoff?

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Feb. 11, 2022 at 2:44 p.m.

Tintin

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Quoting: Smitty426

if we got 1OA and Wright is 1 or 2 as long as we could get one of the RD men what is the ask to get a team to move up from 3-4, to 1?

Quoting: NHLfan10506

Well, it's a longshot banking on GM's looking to move up and down, not that I'm counting on it actually happening.
Just a hypothetical I'd be strongly in favor of.

To add to the guys you floated, at this moment I think of Slafkovsky and Kemell to be in that same tier.
So that's 7 guys that'd be more or less interchangeable for me.

Feb. 11, 2022 at 2:53 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: PaulieWalnuts

Slafkovsky looks good. I know the results haven't been there, but he looks so fluid for a very large man.

Got something like...
1. Cooley
2. Nemec
3. Wright
4. Jiricek
5. Lambert
6. Slafkovsky
7. Lekkerimaki
8. Kemmel
9. Chesley
10. Nazar

Feb. 11, 2022 at 6:42 p.m.

Opie

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Opie

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

100% agree Devs prefer a RD this draft (& I hope they get one of the top two) ... but strongly believe Wright goes #1 regardless of who is picking. His scoring may be down, but he is the most complete (high IQ) two way player in this draft (in my humble opinion). It's one of those odd things where the kid has been in the public eye so long, everyone is finding reasons why he's not as good as advertised... woe the team that passes on Mr Wright.

Feb. 11, 2022 at 8:01 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: Opie

Cooley is really, really good though. If we pick at #1 I would have zero problem passing on Wright, who I think gets the Canadian hype machine revved up because he was a CHL exceptional status player. He doesn’t even look like the best player in his junior team.

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