Proposal: Devils need a goal scorer.

[Jack Spider]

Tavares

 

[HockeyVirus]

Matthews for L.Hughes +1st

 

[SteelCityCannon]

I think HF overrates prospects big time, but the Devils are never in a million years giving up Nemec and Saliyev for Panarin. That bananas.

 

[bernmeister]

cool, you can have 1 of Nemec/Saliyev, a pick, and a dart throw prospect.

The only players worth Nemec AND Saliyev would never get moved. It certainly isn’t a 33 year old winger with 1.5 years left on his deal.

Done
I'll take Saliyev
pls suggest pick + prospect

 

[Smitty426]

cool, you can have 1 of Nemec/Saliyev, a pick, and a dart throw prospect.

The only players worth Nemec AND Saliyev would never get moved. It certainly isn’t a 33 year old winger with 1.5 years left on his deal.

No he can't, peddle him elsewhere

 

[McDuffz88]

cool, you can have 1 of Nemec/Saliyev, a pick, and a dart throw prospect.

The only players worth Nemec AND Saliyev would never get moved. It certainly isn’t a 33 year old winger with 1.5 years left on his deal.

Uhhh really? If we're going to dangle Nemec or Saliyev we can do far better than Panarin

 

[MB3]

I would do Panarin at 50% retained for Saliyev, a conditional 3rd (2nd based on a conference championship appearance) and a dart throw like Traff.

Panarin at 50% retained is an extremely valuable asset. He’s not worth Nemec AND Saliyev, not even close, but he’s certainly worth one of them.

 

[Oneiro]

Devils will have 5.7M in cap space by the deadline.

Meier isn't playing with Jack, he's more well suited with Nico, so really, if we're talking top 6, this about Jack's winger. Panarin and Hall don't make sense particularly because they like having the puck on their stick and they both play almost zero defense with no physicality. So Devils need an opportunistic sniper who doesn't need many touches and can retrieve the puck along the boards. To me, that screams Palmieri.

I can imagine Fitz may be fine with Palat strapped to Jack and Bratt and look into a 3LW to get some scoring depth. Right now both Haula and Mercer are, at best, playing net neutral against their competition. But they can't generate offense - this will bite us in the ass in the playoffs.

Cotter-Lazar-Bastian w/ Tatar subbing is fine as a fourth line. Probably capable of outperforming expectations in the playoffs.

Vatrano makes a lot of sense, Duck fans seem ambivalent on moving him. Not sure who else fits that profile. I don't see a B. Tanev or a player like that generating offense. We're a good defensive team, not sure how much more we need to stack as far as defensive forwards.