Devils aren't giving you cap relief for a 3rd that allows you to sign Johnny

The Jets have 0 need for Ristolainen. The Jets want to get rid of D to make room for younger D.

Foerster is a good start, but the remainder needs to be changed out for more valuable pieces and no cap dumps.

Maybe it won’t be the Devils. Just looking for a team that could use his skill set. Still a solid player and a good deadline piece with half retained if things fall apart.

Don’t know the Jets situation enough to know what type of package they’d want. Assume Lindblom will have some value somewhere and Risto has a lot. Sounds like maybe not with Winnipeg though.

Probably the only pieces that the Jets would have interest in is Konecny and 5OA.

Even still, I don't think a player of that cost, with those stats and lack of defensive game at full price gets you a 3rd. There will be very few teams willing to take on a 7m player as a "maybe we get this 3rd back" scenario.

I would be interested in watching practice interactions between Torts and Scheifele.

Torts: "Backcheck!"
Scheifele: "Oates said I shouldn't do that"