GDT: 2024 Free Agency - July 1st - 12 P.M.

[Brodeur]

Kahkonen didn't have many other places to go. All the other goalies signed and it was down to Winnipeg/Vegas/Colorado/Tampa as teams who maybe could use a backup goalie. Vegas signed Ilya Samsonov and Colorado is capped out. Tampa might be saving their money elsewhere and they have Jonas Johansson signed at the league minimum to be backup.

And maybe Kahkonen looked at what Laurent Brossoit got today and thinks he could replicate that sort of season in Winnipeg. I think Connor Hellebuyck said he was running on empty in the playoffs, so I wonder if they look to lighten his workload slightly?

 

[NJDevs26]

Really gross of the NHL to try and bury that in the middle of free agent frenzy and hope we don’t notice

Everyone'll notice when and if Bowman gets hired by the Oilers lol

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

Give it up on over the hill henrique. He would be a duplicate haula but even older. We aren’t even mentioned as being interested

Because we were linked to Noesen all offseason, right?

It’s logical to think another forward is being looked at with the names were linked with earlier in the day.

 

[Incharge1976]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807770216773849162

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807767522025799976

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807770763857949151

All these guys got it wrong

Oh man. I read that as we were signing him before your disclaimer at the bottom

 

[Rhodes 81]

I like that contract for Montreal. Slaf made huge strides the last 30-40 games last year.

Yeah, it's not to say he's going to be a player on the level of Jack Hughes, but this has a lot of shades of the deal Jack got where it was relatively obvious he was better than he had shown to that point.

 

[Bcap88]

Trotz splurging in free agency like Minnesota did in 2012 with parise and suter

All that just to get bodied in round 1 like Minnesota

 

[Saugus]

Ghost was quite good last year, I thought. Savvy signing by Carolina

Tony DeAngelo without the baggage. That seems like a pretty good deal for them.

 

[britdevil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807873942583181420

Trotz today

 

[Nico Hischier]

Offering Rico or tarasenko multiple years after missing on marchessault sounds like another palat mistake

 

[MartyOwns]

ideal scenario to me is moving palat next year and giving a bag to a guy like konecny

 

[NJDevils17]

I mean getting Rico for 2 years at a reasonable number would be great for our 3C situation. He’s not the player he was but he’s still somewhat effective in that role.

 

[Moist ReadOnly]

Why would Fitzgerald not only pin us to the end of the cap before July 2nd but also not leave any room for the deadline on the roster?

Some mix Hischier Hughes Meier Bratt Mercer Palat is the top-6

Thats plenty fine with Mercer in line for a better season by default, for not being on the third line with names like Tierney

 

[Nico Hischier]

If it came down to signing only one of marchessault or Dillion. Who would you rather have

 

[britdevil]

Wasn't crazy at all. He just chose to team up with Stammer over us.

Crazy in context. 5 year deal for a 33 year old. Where Nashville roster is etc...

I think it's a horrible fit.

 

[Moist ReadOnly]

If it came down to signing only one of marchessault or Dillion. Who would you rather have

Dillon - Marchessault was not necessary here

 

[britdevil]

If it came down to signing only one of marchessault or Dillion. Who would you rather have

Dillon. Our LD was putrid this season, he was a major need.

 

[My3Sons]

If it came down to signing only one of marchessault or Dillion. Who would you rather have

In a vacuum Marchessault but the contracts aren’t quite comparable to me.

 

[britdevil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807876453679485212

I keep forgetting we got this guy. Huge upgrade on Smith. Huge.

 

[The Wumpus]

ideal scenario to me is moving palat next year and giving a bag to a guy like konecny

We'll probably have to move Palat just to sign Luke. We really don't have much coming off the cap next summer.

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1807876453679485212

I keep forgetting we got this guy. Huge upgrade on Smith. Huge.

 

[megajake]

Crazy in context. 5 year deal for a 33 year old. Where Nashville roster is etc...

I think it's a horrible fit.

Ah gotcha, I would of been fine with it on the Devils. Worst case you ship him off with a 2nd in 4 years

 

[Nico Hischier]

Jeff skinner is also still out there. Not too interesting but could be good depth to have if one of our big guys get injured

 

[NJDevs26]

Why would Fitzgerald not only pin us to the end of the cap before July 2nd but also not leave any room for the deadline on the roster?

Some mix Hischier Hughes Meier Bratt Mercer Palat is the top-6

Thats plenty fine with Mercer in line for a better season by default, for not being on the third line with names like Tierney

Clearly he wasn't satisfied with the top six if he was going for Marscheault. But this is pretty much what we're stuck with now barring a trade or cheap reclamation project a la 2012 Sykora.

 

[Rhodes 81]

On paper, Markstrom/Allen over Vitek/Schmid, Pesce over Marino, and Dillon over BahlSmith are all upgrades. The problem is the combined cap hit is much higher. We lost Toffoli with basically no replacement. McLeod isn't really replaced. Noesen over Holtz is an upgrade there at least. But just looking at the consensus top 12 forwards heading into last year vs. now, it's not crazy to say it is a downgrade.

Last year we expected the offense to carry the team and it didn't happen. This year we're clearly banking on the defense and goaltending really stepping up. I'm a believer that can work, but we will definitely need those top 4 forwards to carry us sometimes offensively. It's not the way I expected Fitz to approach the offseason.

 

[Whaddagoal]

Signing henrique would be good for the soul but probably not ideal for the reality.

How fast is henrique these days? He was pretty banged up last season and even got injured after the trade deadline and into the playoffs run.

Would be weary how physically healthy he is for next season.

Would I want Rico back if he were fully healthy, sure but only for a short contract. I remember people complaining about his speed when we traded him that season even.

Would be interesting to have him back though, not sure it is truly the right move.