Proposal: Holtz for Knight (NJD/FLA)

[Double Dion]

There's no way with his job on the line Fitz goes with Knight. Zero chance. He'd go get Talbot or Gustafsson in free agency before he did that. This is a team who should have their window open/opening, not a developing ground for a guy who has been pretty average in the AHL.

 

[StreetHawk]

There's no way with his job on the line Fitz goes with Knight. Zero chance. He'd go get Talbot or Gustafsson in free agency before he did that. This is a team who should have their window open/opening, not a developing ground for a guy who has been pretty average in the AHL.

NJ, I would say is a notch lower than say Toronto, Edmonton are in terms of needing a goalie now. NJ still has a runway, but really want to take advantage of Hughes cheap contract for the maximum amount of time that they can. Plus want to maximize the best remaining years from hamilton and Meier that they can.

They can handle the cap hit, but is it realistic, given the past couple of years that Knight has been through to expect him to be your bonafide #1 guy next season? Probably not. Potential is there, but so is the risk, given that he's at a $4.5 mill cap hit not $2.5 mill.

 

[tmg]

Devils fans, it doesn't seem that long ago that Holtz was a valued prospect. Now he's in a bunch of props. Has he developed poorly or has he fallen out of favor and is he just the most movable piece?

Mostly the latter. Which is kinda what happened when Sharangovich was moved. Devils fans could see the writing on the wall that coaching and management wasn’t about to deploy or pay him in a way that he would probably earn in a role that another team would give him. So Yegor was often talked about in trades knowing he was likely headed out the door anyway … not that he was a declining or overrated asset so much as it was known he could flourish with a fresh road in front of him elsewhere but was road blocked in NJ … and clearly the team that acquired him has no regrets.