I wonder why?

Pospisil shouldn't be traded since he just extended

Swap Bahl and Still man for Holtz and Habs consider it, if not, pi** off

Bahl is bigger and better than Xhekaj so that doesn’t make much sense.

Bigger yes. Softer yes

Please

The LHD we have available for you is Harris.

We already reportedly turned down a recent 1st rounder with middle 6 potential for Xhekaj, why exactly do we take less value than that?!

Not last night!

Xhekaj is awful at hockey and spends the entire game sitting in the penalty box. If you want that play Brendan smith and tell him to join a boxing gym

I think its fairly significant overpay on both deals.

A number of Devils fans will be in shock when they realize that Xhekaj is just Brendan Smith without the ability to kill penalties and better at face punching

Arber Xhekaj is Brendan smith minus the elite PK skills smith has

Xhekaj may be good at what he does, but I think he would be 7d on a playoff team.

Xhekaj also plays on the pp sometimes. I don't believe I've ever seen Smith do that

You're right. But this is becoming a issue where our defense is letting the opposition have their way in our zone and in front of the net. Nobody is stepping up. Bahl is 6'6 and plays like he's 5'6

If Xhekaj could be effective outside of the enforcer/goon role I could tolerate him. If he was a forward and could be buried on line 4 (like smith at 4LW), I’d like him more.

But he’s just not effective on either special teams unit. (And we need another PK dman unless we want Luke to be killing penalties).

He can’t stay out of the box even outside of fights. Just constantly taking boneheaded minor penalties.

And he just kinda generally sucks at hockey.

Wish he was better but that’s the reality of it

A playoff team/contender cannot be expected to stick him out there at 3LD.

If luke was 3 years older and could eat 25 minutes a night alongside a Hanifin to eat another 22 or so, sure. We could hide Xhekaj. But we can’t afford to be sending Xhekaj out there in the amount of minutes bahl gets

Bahl is a big fella....and hasn't learned the art of dialing up the nasty yet. That is true.

The fact that a player scored, then skated over to our goalie, screamed taunts at him...and no one did anything...its a problem

(not sure Bahl was even on ice...but that is a game that called for some response).

Remove the retention on Markstrom, remove Vanacek, remove Posposil and you'd be in the ballpark. You can keep Casey and the 5th too since they don't add much value. Casey isn't the star in waiting can't miss prospect you all make him out to be, he's a very undersized "offensive" defenseman who more than likely won't make the NHL.

Face punching and scoring needed more now than G

Yes, the skating is elite. And yes, the puck skills are elite. And yes, he QBs the best power play in 35 years. And yes he leads dman scoring in toughest conference.

But no, your description is not right. He is bigger than Quinn, about same size as Makar and Fox. Very strong on skates and plays a lot more physical than you’d expect. Also, gets high acolades for his defense…and was primary deployed as defensive dman at World Juniors.

He is on Big Ten network right now, if you’d like to watch. 3-0 Michigan.

Get real. toughest confernce? in what? US peewee or w/e they call it down there?

Casey hasn't even played pro hockey yet. He's played for a stacked US national development team and one of the top US university teams. It's easy for a little guy to look good on teams like that but until he plays in the AHL. The WHL even the OHL are tougher leagues to play in than any league he's every played in. If he continues to produce in the AHL where you don't have stacked teams like the USNDT or the top US University teams and where heavy play with more hitting and fighting in a single game than you might see most in US league teams have in a whole year then you can start to think that maybe just maybe he might make the NHL eventually.

And BTW capfriendly has Quinn and Casey listed as almost exactly the same size, same height with 3 lbs weight difference. Most other sites list both Makar and Fox as 1 inch taller and 10+ lbs heavier than the 5'10" 173 lbs capfriendly has Casey at. On top of that most other sites agree on the size of Makar, Fox and Hughes but have Casey at just 5'9" 162 making it 2 inches and 20 lbs.

Fact is just because a few high scoring undersized offensive defenseman have made the NHL doesn't mean Casey will. His chances of becoming a NHL regular at all (far less being a star) are like all such defensemen low. Deny it all you want but don't go thinking just because a few guys beat the long odds against them and made it that anyone with comparable stats on stacked teams in different softer non professional leagues will make it too.

You're comparing apples to oranges and saying because 1 out of 1000 small opples made the top pro league and became stars so will my 1 small orange who has yet to play even just 1 game in the minor pros.

Where Geertsen

Are you trying to sound obtuse?

He plays in Big Ten

I know where he plays mr definition of obtuse. Big Ten big deal. Stacked teams in a non pro league that doesn't have much hitting, hard forechecking or heavy play. Do you understand what that means for a very undersized player?