Who is the best like-for-like replacement for Nate Bastian

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Created by: NHLfan10506

Team: 2022-23 New Jersey Devils

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 28, 2022

Published: Nov. 28, 2022

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Nate Bastian is out with should injury and the longer we wait on official timetable, the worse we expect the news to be. A full dislocation requiring surgery could put him out for season. If we looked for a replacement in the trade market, who would be some good names that could fill that role?

Bastian: Big, young, high-motor, physical, great along boards, useful net-front player, zero stick handling, adequate skating, mediocre hands, willing to drop the mitts, on inexpensive deal, playing 4th line, Penalty Kill and some net-front on Power Play.

There is not an obvious name internally to take Bastian’s role. Zetterlund is probably the most likely candidate, but he has been playing in a more offensive role in lineup (most recently on Hischier line).

Thoughts?

Trades

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Fischer, Christian

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NJD

Watson, Austin

OTT

NJD

Hathaway, Garnet

WSH

NJD

Kostin, Klim

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Cory Schneider: $2,000,000
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Ilya Kovalchuk: $250,000

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Andreas Johnsson: $2,275,000 ($3,400,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$82,500,000	$74,767,500	$0	$1,415,000	$7,732,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Tatar, Tomas $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C UFA - 5	Bratt, Jesper $5,450,000$5,450,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Haula, Erik $2,375,000$2,375,000 C, 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
Sharangovich, Yegor $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 1	Boqvist, Jesper $874,125$874,125 C, LW RFA - 1	Holtz, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
Wood, Miles $3,200,000$3,200,000 LW UFA - 1	McLeod, Michael $975,000$975,000 C RFA - 1	Zetterlund, Fabian $750,000$750,000 RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Siegenthaler, Jonas $1,125,000$1,125,000 LD UFA - 1	Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Vanecek, Vitek $3,400,000$3,400,000 G UFA - 3
Graves, Ryan $3,166,667$3,166,667 LD UFA - 1	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 5
Smith, Brendan $1,100,000$1,100,000 LD/RD, LW UFA - 2	Severson, Damon $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 1	Schmid, Akira $850,833$850,833 ($82,500$82K) G RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bahl, Kevin $795,000$795,000 ($82,500$82K) LD RFA - 1	Kostin, Klim $750,000$750,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Bernier, Jonathan $4,125,000$4,125,000 G UFA - 1
	Hathaway, Garnet $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Palat, Ondrej $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 5
	Watson, Austin $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Blackwood, Mackenzie $2,800,000$2,800,000 G UFA - 1
	Fischer, Christian $1,125,875$1,125,875 RW, LW UFA - 1	Bastian, Nathan $825,000$825,000 RW UFA - 1

Nov. 28, 2022 at 1:20 p.m.

Devil

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Josh Anderson

lol

Nov. 28, 2022 at 1:37 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: Devil

Josh Anderson

lol

That would be a big, physical and fast 4th line.
Wood -- McLeod -- Anderson

Anderson (50% retained) for Johnsson and 2023 2nd round pick maybe.

Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:06 p.m.

SupremeBone

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Hathaway. He's been part of a strong 4th line in WAS for a few years now.

Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:14 p.m.

dannibalcorpse

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This feels like the time to cherry pick a guy out of another team's AHL squad that's just blocked at the NHL level.

From the Islanders, I'd think about Otto Koivula - he's 6'5", 220, pretty physical (20 hits in 20 NHL GP, no idea if AHL keeps track of hits), has a decent scoring touch (4-7-11 in 14 GP this year). Not a fighter but I think that with Brendan Smith & Miles Wood on hand the Devils can make up for it. Signed for $800K this year and next, would probably cost a mid/late-rounder at best. I'm sure there are a dozen other guys like this kicking around the AHL on other teams, too.

Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:17 p.m.

Tbrew

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We don’t need to make a deal. There is enough to pick from on our AHL squad

Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:20 p.m.

NoVaSpartan

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Mason Geertsen's got this!

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Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:21 p.m.

dannibalcorpse

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Quoting: NoVaSpartan

Mason Geertsen's got this!

the GOArTsen

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Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:34 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: Tbrew

We don’t need to make a deal. There is enough to pick from on our AHL squad

Stylistically, there really isn't much that is similar to Bastian.
Zetterlund is probably the most likely option (with Holtz slotting higher into lineup).
Foote could probably step in.
Halonen maybe, but too slow.
Dugan maybe, but lacks aggressive nature.

But if Nate is out for the season, I'd hope we'd consider trading for a replacement if we can one.

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Nov. 28, 2022 at 2:36 p.m.

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Quoting: NoVaSpartan

Mason Geertsen's got this!

Geertsen is good for about 4 min a night.
Bastian was getting 13-14 and was on PP, PK.

If Bastian was out for a week, sure. But for rest of season, yikes.

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Nov. 29, 2022 at 10:08 a.m.

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Tbrew

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

I don’t think we need another Nate Bastian though. Especially when our replacements have a bit less grit and a bit more skill. Bastian has a place on this team, but his replacement doesn’t need to play like him

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Nov. 29, 2022 at 11:25 a.m.

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Quoting: Tbrew

If he is out for season, I would disagree. Especially if we are adding Holtz in place of Bastian and eventually replacing Smith with Luke Hughes.

We need some 'heavy" in there.
We saw how Trouba played head-hunter last night...just skating around looking for a thunderhit. (and he whiffed a few times lol).
We need protection...so that our top-6 can play an honest game.

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