Confirmed with Link: Devils acquire Meier (50% retained) and four others from the Sharks for 2023 1st, conditional 2024 1st, Mukhamadullin, Okhotiuk, Zetterlund & Johnsson

[Ginger Papa]

This is taking so long that other teams beat writers are getting in on it by calling our players.

 

[Ripshot 43]

This is not hard.

Meier - Hughes - Bratt
Tatar - Hischier - Mercer

 

[Incharge1976]

Why does it seem like everything we are involved in is always dragged out dramatically? We can never just get the skinny right away.

The league still has it on file to fax everything back and forth when dealing with NJ.

 

[Devils731]

Muk and Holtz feels like a bit much with a 1st on top. Basically 3 first rounders.

I think that would be a little on the rich side but also an overpay the Devils could live with since Meier replaces Holtz and Muhk is 3rd/4th on the defensive prospect depth chart.

It would be a good deal for SJ and a decent deal for the Devils, imo.

 

[Patrik26]

Why does it seem like everything we are involved in is always dragged out dramatically? We can never just get the skinny right away.

Imagine, if you will, we win the Stanley Cup. Except the Cup isn't in the building and nobody knows where it is. THAT would be about right.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

My guess would be a 3-way deal with Severson going somewhere.

lol where is this coming from

 

[NJDevs26]

I mean that is what we've been expecting. If it turns out that we wait 2 hours just to find out that the return is exactly what we all guessed it would be, I'm going to be annoyed.

I'll take that wait for that result...it'd be far worse to wait that long only to get the blue balls of Nemec or whomever being involved after all

 

[jkrdevil]

Imagine, if you will, we win the Stanley Cup. Except the Cup isn't in the building and nobody knows where it is. THAT would be about right.

So when Chicago won it in 2015.

 

[NJDevils17]

We sure the return isn’t the friends we made along the way?

 

[Emperoreddy]

Who hasn't gotten a phone call?

 

[Classic Devil]

I'll take that wait for that result...it'd be far worse to wait that long only to get the blue balls of Nemec or whomever being involved after all

I highly suspect that if Nemec were involved it would have leaked already.

 

[MauDevils]

Quick someone call Jack.

 

[NJDevils17]

Who hasn't gotten a phone call?

Muk given the time in Russia?

 

[Emperoreddy]

Quick someone call Jack.

One of our members already on it

 

[SJinNewJersey]

So it fell through?

Just took forever.

 

[NJDevils#4]

 

[Classic Devil]

I remember we had to wait forever to find out about the Kovalchuk return too. But that happened later in the day.

 

[Billdo]

So...

Meier-Hughes-Bratt
Tatar-Hischier-Mercer
Palat-Haula-Zetterlund
Wood-McLeod-Bastian

I'd still try to upgrade that LW4

 

[Nubmer6]

Maybe we're waiting for official approval from Johnson.

 

[StevenToddIves]

I think that would be a little on the rich side but also an overpay the Devils could live with since Meier replaces Holtz and Muhk is 3rd/4th on the defensive prospect depth chart.

It would be a good deal for SJ and a decent deal for the Devils, imo.

Mukhamadullin is the #2 LD prospect behind Luke Hughes. The Devils have two long-term pieces at LD in Siegenthaler and Luke Hughes, but the third is a significant question. Right now, I'd guess the answer would be Mukhamadullin, but if he's gone we're not without options next season and the season after.

1) Re-sign Ryan Graves (if he's willing to sign a team-friendly deal)
2) Nikita Okhotiuk
3) Kevin Bahl
4) Another trade

 

[MadDevil]

The hold up is Blackwood, who after doing his own research thinks cell phones cause cancer, so he threw his out.

 

[jkrdevil]

I remember we had to wait forever to find out about the Kovalchuk return too. But that happened later in the day.

Wasn’t Oduya or Bergfors at a movie?

 

[Classic Devil]

Maybe we're waiting for official approval from Johnson.

That would be a real kick in the balls.

 

[StevenToddIves]

lol where is this coming from

"My guess"

 

[Ripshot 43]

Did we borrow Lou’s pigeons again?