Devils discussion (news, notes and speculation) - playoff edition

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I’d like to have 2 more shots at the Stanley Cup if it were up to me.
I understand and respect your sentiment. As our team is currently constituted, we aren’t anywhere close to being a Stanley Cup contender, even with Quinn Hughes. I’m skeptical that one off-season is going to change that. Plus, assets used to acquire Quinn could be used to help the team over the next two seasons with another addition(s). It’s going to take A LOT to get him here via trade. It’s why I’d rather just sign him as a UFA.
 
I’d like to have 2 more shots at the Stanley Cup if it were up to me.
As our team is currently constituted, we aren’t anywhere close to being a Stanley Cup contender, even with Quinn Hughes. I’m skeptical that one off-season is going to change that. Plus, assets used to acquire Quinn could be used to help the team over the next two seasons.
 
As our team is currently constituted, we aren’t anywhere close to being a Stanley Cup contender, even with Quinn Hughes. I’m skeptical that one off-season is going to change that. Plus, assets used to acquire Quinn could be used to help the team over the next two seasons.
i’m not sure you appreciate how good quinn is. we would be a lot closer to being a stanley cup contender there is absolutely no question about it.
 
As our team is currently constituted, we aren’t anywhere close to being a Stanley Cup contender, even with Quinn Hughes. I’m skeptical that one off-season is going to change that. Plus, assets used to acquire Quinn could be used to help the team over the next two seasons.
Quinn Hughes would be the best player on our team the moment he steps on the ice - this player is a true difference maker so the idea we wouldn’t be an immediate favorite for next year seems far fetched.
 
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To Van: Nemec, Silayev, Hamilton or Palat (doubt they'd go to Van, but whatever this is fantasy land anyway), 2026 1st, ....prob another 1st

To NJ: Quinn and Demko (50% ret)

Vancouver formally enters the tank for McKenna sweepstakes.
Would do this in an instant and it’s a great deal for Vancouver as well. They can also have Mercer if they want him.
 
You are overrating Casey a lot.

Quinn helps now. He’s head and shoulders above everyone on this roster besides Jack. Casey could be a solid bottom pair guy that can qb a pp.

In no world should we be saying we shouldn’t have Quinn because we have Luke and Casey.
Where I overrateed him? I said we should trade him. Espeially with the news about Quinn. There are no room for him in the future in the situation with all the Hughes in the room. I never said the trade should be one for one. Its unreal. I never said we should not have Quinn because we have Luke and Casey. You are taking words from your head, not from my massages.

There are only 4 players who can be untouchable in Quinn trade. And all of them are in the roster already.
 
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A Norris trophy caliber defensemen makes this team a contender. When Dougie was near that heights two years ago the team out up 110 points (and just happened to be in a division with two other teams that out up similar point totals).

But Quinn isn’t coming here in the next two years. Trading him is a fireable offense for Rutherford and Allvin. It isn’t going to happen until Quinn rejects a contract extension first.
 
If Fitzgerald was against us acquiring Quinn he would immediately be blacklisted not just by the Devils but any team in the future that wanted to give him another chance at being a GM.

No functioning human would turn down a chance to get maybe the best D man in the league even absent the tremendous marketing potential of having all three brothers playing for the same team. It’s just not even worth discussing.
 
You don't split hairs over the cost of acquiring a player like Quinn, you win any trade by virtue of him being undoubtedly the best player in it.

Yes we have other holes to address, but you don't look a gift horse in the mouth if Vancouver seriously considers trading him before he hits UFA.

Mercer + Silayev + Nemec/Casey + a future 1st and something to balance out the cap (Palat/Dillon etc).

You can always find depth forwards, you cannot always find a Quinn Hughes.
 

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