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Created by: NHLfan10506

Team: 2025-26 New Jersey Devils

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 21, 2024

Published: Apr. 21, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

RFAs (based on % of cap)
1. Mercer gets Maccelli bridge
2. Luke gets Quinn extension
3. Bahl gets Whitecloud extension

Draft picks
2024: Cayden Lindstrom
2025: Karl Annborn

Looking at 2026-27
- Will have to find way to sign Nemec
- Cap increase $3.5m
- Palat buyout (replaced by Hameenaho) $1.75m
- Joseph expiry (replaced by Lindstrom) $0.525m
- Move Carrier (replaced by Casey) $1.55m
- Net, gives us about $8.2m to pay Nemec
- Maybe Norris could come with some retention?

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Gritsyuk, Arseni	1	$950,000
Casey, Seamus	3	$950,000
Hämeenaho, Lenni	2	$950,000
Hauser, Petr	2	$840,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Mercer, Dawson	2	$3,750,000
Schmid, Akira	1	$1,100,000
Daws, Nico	1	$1,000,000
Hatakka, Santeri	1	$850,000
Foote, Nolan	1	$800,000
Halonen, Brian	1	$800,000
Hughes, Luke	6	$8,475,000
Bahl, Kevin	6	$2,965,000
Misyul, Daniil	1	$775,000
Poulter, Isaac	1	$775,000
Légaré, Nathan	1	$775,000
Kuntar, Trevor	2	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Ullmark, Linus	4	$5,500,000
Duhaime, Brandon	1	$1,350,000
Carrier, Alexandre	2	$2,500,000
Puustinen, Valtteri	2	$1,250,000
MacDermid, Kurtis	1	$825,000
DeSimone, Nick	1	$775,000
Lazar, Curtis	2	$1,200,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Lindstrom, Cayden		2	$950,000
Annborn, Karl		3	$950,000

Trades

NJD

Kuntar, Trevor [RFA Rights]
2026 4th round pick (BOS)

Additional Details:

Ullmark trade before 2024-25

BOS

Brennan, Tyler
Clarke, Graeme [RFA Rights]
2025 1st round pick (NJD)

NJD

Joseph, Mathieu ($1,475,000 retained)
Norris, Joshua
2026 5th round pick (OTT)

Additional Details:

Before start of 2025-26 season

OTT

Barabosha, Artem [Reserve List]
Holtz, Alexander [RFA Rights]
Marino, John
2025 2nd round pick (WPG)
2026 3rd round pick (NJD)

NJD

2025 3rd round pick (DAL)

Additional Details:

Faksa replacement, summer of 2025 trade

DAL

Haula, Erik

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$92,500,000	$92,170,000	$0	$3,307,500	$330,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Gritsyuk, Arseni $950,000$950,000 LW RFA	Hughes, Jack $8,000,000$8,000,000 C UFA - 5	Bratt, Jesper $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 6
Meier, Timo $8,800,000$8,800,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Mercer, Dawson $3,750,000$3,750,000 RW, C RFA
Palat, Ondrej $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Norris, Joshua $7,950,000$7,950,000 C UFA - 5	Joseph, Mathieu $1,475,000$1,475,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Puustinen, Valtteri $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA	Lazar, Curtis $1,200,000$1,200,000 RW, C UFA	Duhaime, Brandon $1,350,000$1,350,000 RW, LW UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Siegenthaler, Jonas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Hamilton, Dougie $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Ullmark, Linus $5,500,000$5,500,000 G UFA
Hughes, Luke $8,475,000$8,475,000 LD/RD RFA	Nemec, Simon $918,333$918,333 ($3,250,000$3M) RD RFA - 1	Schmid, Akira $1,100,000$1,100,000 G RFA
Bahl, Kevin $2,965,000$2,965,000 LD RFA	Carrier, Alexandre $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
MacDermid, Kurtis $825,000$825,000 LD/RD, LW UFA
Halonen, Brian $800,000$800,000 LW, RW RFA
Vilén, Topias $836,667$836,667 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1

Apr. 21 at 7:12 a.m.

athrin

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OTT declines

Apr. 21 at 8:00 a.m.

mart

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Edited Apr. 22 at 5:30 p.m.

Sens accept

Apr. 21 at 9:48 a.m.

dgibb10

I Love J Boqvist

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Don't understand how Norris fetches that much at all. I wouldn't pay anything for him

Apr. 21 at 1:44 p.m.

Celtics21

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I don’t see how Boston adds in an Ullmark deal at all for a 2025 first

Apr. 21 at 2:06 p.m.

NHLfan10506

Thread Starter

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Quoting: Celtics21

I don’t see how Boston adds in an Ullmark deal at all for a 2025 first

Clarke > Kuntar

So maybe Clarke for Kuntar + 4th

Apr. 21 at 2:43 p.m.

Celtics21

Joined: May 2023

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Clarke > Kuntar

So maybe Clarke for Kuntar + 4th

Easy solution. You can keep Clarke and just add a pick. I’d rather have Kuntar for the role he is likely going to play

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