Quoting: dgibb10
Has he been killing in the AHL because the problem is he only has 20 total minutes on the kill at the NHL level? No sample size to trust.
Call us about guys like Guhle, Montembault, and Evans. Heck I'd offer NJDs next 3 1sts+Bahl as a starting point. (2 in 2024, 1 of which comes from selling Toffoli)
1st+1st+Bahl for Guhle+3rd
1st for Montembault
3rd for Evans
That's a real fix, and one that doesn't decimate our cap
Hughes-Mercer-Meier
Hischier-Palat-Bratt
Mercer-Holtz-Lazar
Evans-Trenin-Bastian
Hughes-Nemec
Guhle-Marino
Siegs-Hamilton
Monty
Daws
Xhekaj in the ahl was like Faber in the nhl this year. He was dominant everywhere.
In the nhl, it’s normal if he doesn’t get a lot of minutes since he is always in the box and we have Kovacevic, Savard, Harris, Struble and Guhle who are all VERY dominant defensively
As for the package above, it’s fair value, but no way are we doing that. Guhle is currently our safest top 4 option. There is only 5 players on the Devils I would trade him for : Jack Hughes, Hischier, Bratt, Nemec and Mercer. So unless there is Mercer coming back, we aren’t trading him. So yeah, no Guhle since the chance of Mercer being available is pretty low
Montembeault is our goalie of the future, or at least our starter until Fowler/Volhokin/Dobes breakout. We aren’t trading him
As for Evans, we aren’t trading him unless there is a MASSIVE overpay. I’m not even sure a second would do it. He is excellent everywhere with sone underrated hands. He is our long term 4c