Trade confirmed: Montreal Canadiens - New Jersey Devils

Trade Details
Montreal Canadiens Acquire: 2025 3rd round pick (NJD) [Conditional]* *Conditions: Upgrades to 2025 2nd round pick if Allen plays in 40 or more 2024-25 games and if the club that Allen is a member of qualifies for the playoffs in 2024-25 Sum: $0$0$0 Change: -$1,925,000 Change: -$1,925,000 Change: -$2,200,000	New Jersey Devils Acquire: Jake Allen 80 1B ($1,925,000 retained - 50%) · $1,925,000$1,925,000$2,200,000 Sum: $1,925,000$1,925,000$2,200,000 Change: +$1,925,000 Change: +$1,925,000 Change: +$2,200,000

The fact Montreal got anything for Allen is amazing

Disatrous trade deadline for New Jersey... they essentially traded Toffoli for Allen + 3rd or a 2nd LOL

Don’t hate it at all.

Weird way to spell Juuse Saros

I hate it

I always said Allen will cost a 3rd+

But I love this deal for both teams.

People are gonna give the Devils flack but this is a great guy for them to grab.

How did Kent pull that off, that man is magical

Montreal getting a 3rd (possibly a 2nd) for our 3rd string goalie is absolutely insane. It makes sense for NJ, but they had all of the leverage, and Montreal still got value

WENT WUGHES

Montreal are limiting their options with that salary retention (having their 3 slots now used), but the fact that they got a 3rd round pick which could potentially even become a 2nd rounder, yeah, that's a great return for Allen.

Went Wughes got nearly as much for Manahan and Allen than Calgary got for Hanifin, or half what SJ got for Hertl.

LOL

Damn, Kent kinda bent Fitzgerald over here. Allen was the Habs 3rd string and they got a good pick out of him. Solid stuff

I'm here for thoses who said that Montreal needed to paid to send Allen away, even with a 50% retention......

Dude that much retention costs a 3rd in general lol. It'll be a win for the Habs if Allen plays 40 next year tho

He's the best goalie on the Devils. His saves above expected is -0.138 per 60 minutes, while Jersey's previous best was Akira Schmid at -0.197.

Short term goalie issue not bad

Back during the Christmas Break, I made an AGM involving a Jake Allen trade to the Devils with 50% retention.

It was based on the trade that brought Allen to the Habs in the first place with a team basically paying a 3rd for Allen.

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/4781081



And low and behold, the Habs are probably receiving a 3rd from the Devils here.

With the Habs retaining 50% on Allen.



This trade made my day

Fair deal.

Does the second condition mean that if the Devils trade Allen to playoff team the pick still upgrades?

Allen doesn’t get enough credit given how poor our defence has been. He’ll hopefully do better in Jersey.

A 3rd is a perfectly decent return for a goalie.

Yeah I noticed that, the wording is weird. Could you imagine if NJ trades Allen to a bottom feeder at next years TD so the pick doesn't upgrade?

Yeah, he's better than his stats show. He's easily NJ's best goalie, and might actually help them make the playoffs this year.

So you trade Toffoli and then trade for a goalie?

NJD pays fair price for a stopgap at 2 mill, people lose their minds

Would be funny!

Fair Price considering the retention, but Allen & Kaapo aren’t going to do any better in NJD than Vitek did for them, they’re just cheaper

I wonder if this means Markstrom is no longer of interest to NJD this off-season or if Allen could possibly back up for Markstrom next year!?