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Created by: Preston_Mattesich

Team: 2023-24 New Jersey Devils

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 21, 2024

Published: Jan. 21, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Fire Lindy for a stronger two way coach (Woodcroft? Nasreddine?). Saros becomes franchise goalie with Daws maintaining his role as a strong backup. Boqvist fills out the defense as a really strong defensive defenseman with some untapped offensive potential. Play Holtz more. When it comes down to it the biggest problem with the team is the injuries. The team has an opportunity to double down now with Dougie on LTIR likely until playoffs. Circumvent the cap and go for the cup this year.

Trades

NJD

Saros, Juuse

NSH

Bahl, Kevin
Stillman, Chase
Vanecek, Vitek
2024 1st round pick (NJD)

NJD

Boqvist, Adam
2024 6th round pick (CBJ)

CBJ

2024 7th round pick (NSH)
2025 2nd round pick (NJD)

Buyouts

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

Recapture Fees

Ilya Kovalchuk: $250,000

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
22	$83,500,000	$73,580,000	$422,500	$5,482,500	$9,920,000

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bratt, Jesper $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 8	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C UFA - 4	Mercer, Dawson $894,167$894,167 ($400,000$400K) RW, C RFA - 1
Meier, Timo $8,800,000$8,800,000 LW, RW 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
Palat, Ondrej $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Haula, Erik $3,150,000$3,150,000 C, LW NTC UFA - 3	Holtz, Alexander $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Smith, Brendan $1,100,000$1,100,000 LD/RD, LW UFA - 1	McLeod, Michael $1,400,000$1,400,000 C RFA - 1	Lazar, Curtis $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Siegenthaler, Jonas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LD UFA - 5	Nemec, Simon $918,333$918,333 ($3,250,000$3M) RD RFA - 3	Saros, Juuse $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 2
Hughes, Luke $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD RFA - 2	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 4	Daws, Nico $850,833$850,833 ($57,500$58K) G RFA - 1
Miller, Colin $1,850,000$1,850,000 RD UFA - 1	Boqvist, Adam $2,600,000$2,600,000 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bastian, Nathan $1,350,000$1,350,000 RW UFA - 2		Nosek, Tomas $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1
Foote, Cal $800,000$800,000 RD RFA - 1		Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 5

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Bratt, J.		Hischier, N.		Hughes, J.
	Toffoli, T.		Hughes, L.

Power Play 2
Mercer, D.		Meier, T.		Palat, O.
	Holtz, A.		Nemec, S.

Jan. 21 at 7:59 p.m.

Vancity2196

Joined: Mar. 2022

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Are both trades good enough for NJ to reach this postseason?

Jan. 21 at 8:03 p.m.

NHLfan10506

Joined: May 2019

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Not sure Boqvist is right guy, but Saros would certainly make us better.

I think we will try to avoid using LTIR as much as we can.

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Jan. 21 at 8:21 p.m.

gmgb

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Right shot wingers and left shot defensemen are the least of NSH's needs. What they need most are top six center and right shot defence prospects.

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Jan. 21 at 8:35 p.m.

Ennis

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^

We currently have Forsberg, Tomasino, Evangelista, Kemell, Wood.

The pipeline is stacked on the right side

Jan. 21 at 8:45 p.m.

Preston_Mattesich

Thread Starter

In The Mix

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Quoting: Vancity2196

Are both trades good enough for NJ to reach this postseason?

Along with my suggestions, yes. They'll get healthy eventually too which will get them out of their slump.

Jan. 21 at 9:04 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: gmgb

Right shot wingers and left shot defensemen are the least of NSH's needs. What they need most are top six center and right shot defence prospects.

Probably the hardest assets to acquire via trade.

1. Young top-6 centers
2. Young top-4 RHD
3. Young top-4 LHD
4. Rental top-6 centers
5. Rental top-4 RHD
6. Any wingers
7. Any other rentals

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Jan. 21 at 9:11 p.m.

gmgb

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Probably the hardest assets to acquire via trade.

1. Young top-6 centers
2. Young top-4 RHD
3. Young top-4 LHD
4. Rental top-6 centers
5. Rental top-4 RHD
6. Any wingers
7. Any other rentals

#1 goalies might be the hardest to acquire, given how infrequently it happens, despite that being the biggest need amongst contenders right now.

But yeah, point taken. NSH would be better off trading Saros for the best package of draft picks possible, instead of settling for whatever random prospects the other team wouldn't miss too much.

Jan. 21 at 10:11 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: gmgb

#1 goalies may be hardest to find…but not always hardest to acquire. Top-6 centers are hardest (near impossible) to obtain anywhere outside the draft. Top-4 dmen are next. Just make any list of guys you would have as top-6, top-4 etc…

Top centers….
McDavid #1 pick
MacKinnon #1 pick
Crosby #1 pick
Matthews #1 pick
Hughes #1 pick
Pettersson #5 pick
Barkov #2 pick
Draisaitl #3 pick
Eichel #2 pick

Top dmen
Makar #4 pick
Hughes #7 pick
Fox (rights trade)
McAvoy #14 pick
Heiskanen #3 pick
Hedman #2 pick
Josi #38 pick
Dahlin #1 pick

Top goalies
Hellebuyck #130 pick
Shesterkin #118 pick
Swayman #111 pick
Ullmark (UFA)
Saros #99 pick
Georgiev (trade)
Hill (trade)
Sorokin #78 pick

Top wingers
Kucherov #58 pick
Pastrnak #25 pick
Tkachuck (trade)
Kaprizov #135 pick
Robertson #39 pick
Stone (trade)
Guentzel #77 pick
Gaudreau (UFA)
Bratt #163 pick
Forsberg (trade)
Panarin (UFA)
Miller (trade)
Reinhart (trade)

Can get the idea. One can make any list of top players by position….they will find a similar trend.

I think the best route to adding a top-6 center or top-4 RHD is to trade Askarov, extend Saros.

They could also develop Wood at center.

Or just go full tank and try to get Hagens in 2025 (or Misa or McQueen).

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Jan. 22 at 11:39 a.m.

JacketsComrade

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boqvist is a known offensive and powerplay defenseman who is weakest in his own zone so if you're looking for "super strong defensive defenseman with untapped offensive potential" you should probably go trade for like david savard or something

Jan. 22 at 12:13 p.m.

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dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

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Devils have a ton of productive rookies which means ELC bonuses that carry over if we use LTIR

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