Confirmed with Link: Devils re-sign Kovacevic (5 x $4)

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I have no problem with this, I think I'm more shocked it was done on the day of the trade deadline.

It certainly makes the next move very interesting. Do we deal Dougie or Nemec in the summer?
Something tells me they were asked about him in a trade and decided to either sign him or trade him and he said ok. He's been good. In three years this contract will be nothing. The only issue I see is next season's defense and I have a hard time seeing Nemec return right now. I expect they move him rather than Hamilton.
 
Once the season ends, Kovacevic doesn't have a ton of incentive to sign a long-term deal versus walk to UFA. I mean this is the thing that everyone threw in Lou's face for years that he wouldn't negotiate early enough with guys.
He isn’t Elias, Parise ect. He is Jonathan Kovacevic and presumably you should have internal replacements ready.
 
If this is it for this deadline, I'm not thrilled about this signing to be honest. I don't like what it means for Nemec/Casey and Hamilton, who are more important pieces long term. Seems like all the moves haven't been sorted out and this deal was agreed to prematurely. Could force the FO's hand to make a move they shouldn't otherwise.
 
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If this is it for this deadline, I'm not thrilled about this signing to be honest. I don't like what it means for Nemec/Casey and Hamilton, who are more important pieces long term. Seems like all the moves haven't been sorted out and this deal was agreed to prematurely. Could force the FO's hand to make a move they shouldn't otherwise.
If the team wants to genuinely upgrade the forward group one of Nemec/Casey were almost certainly going to be moved, probably along with Mercer. My guess is they send out Nemec who will return more than Casey. While I really like Hamilton I could also understand if the team chose to move him this offseason to rebalance the cap a bit with a Luke contract coming up.
 
If this is it for this deadline, I'm not thrilled about this signing to be honest. I don't like what it means for Nemec/Casey and Hamilton, who are more important pieces long term. Seems like all the moves haven't been sorted out and this deal was agreed to prematurely. Could force the FO's hand to make a move they shouldn't otherwise.
Hamilton can't stay healthy. Its a third time for his short tenure and we have Luke in the roster. Luke is younger, more raw and not as quite productive but his potential and moments of great play are promising enough. Nemec and Casey are both promising prospects but if we want to add young forward with top 3 potential we should you at least one of them. This is not what I really like but this is it. Its better to be young nhl level center with strong ceiling. Or already productive NHL center who will be longer under control
 
Despite the flack he often gets from folks, Hamilton has been very, very good since Xmas. However, it’s better to move a player a year too early than a year too late and risk his value tanking. Fitzgerald has established a history of waiting and holding for way too long (see 23-24 goalie, Holtz, etc.) which scares me. I wouldn’t be in a rush to move Dougie if we were devoid of serious issues with our forward group. That 9m can be reallocated and the assets could potentially be used to acquire true top six winger. With a logjam at RD, it also makes sense if you believe Nemec or Casey is going to have a future with the big club.

Buyout Haula. Suck it up with Palat (slotted lower in the lineup where he belongs) another year before he suffers the same fate. Boom.
 
Same folks would be screaming if Tom let him walk in FA
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They're gonna do what they did with Holtz to Nemec. Not play him properly or at all, bash him in the media and trade him for pennies on the dollar
There is only about a month left of the season. There’s only so much they can do before it ends. I expect they trade him this offseason absent a sharp upward turn in his play. With the way this season is crashing and burning his narrative will be a relatively modest one compared to everything else going wrong as I see it.
 

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