Confirmed Signing with Link: [NJD] D Nick DeSimone signs extension with the Devils (1 year, $775k)
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Had a couple decent games (and a couple awful ones) down the stretch. I'm guessing it'll be a camp battle between him and Santeri Hatakka for the #7D spot.
He’s earned it plus giving him a one way deal has zero impact on NJ’s cap and may make it easier for him to pass clear waivers if it comes to that. He’ll likely battle it out with Hatakka for that 7th spot.
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Not sure how it deters a waiver claim. The team claiming him would do so planning for him to play in the NHL. One way or two way wouldn’t matter in that case.
Term would more likely be a deterrent, but they didn’t give him that.
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Basically they're hoping that nobody else is going to want to pay him 775k to play in the AHL if he doesn't make the main roster.
No idea if anyone would care but it's the only thing I can think of for giving him a 1 way deal.
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Well they wouldn't have to cuz that team would have to put him on waivers again. In which case Devils would take him back and stick him in the AHL like the first time they tried it. No team would get a chance to pay him in the AHL even if they wanted to.
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Kind of a slap in the face to the veterans and prospects in Utica that when the Devils were struck by injury the organization felt the need to go outside the organization for a guy like DeSimone who had barely played for the Flames.
To his credit he made the most of his opportunity. But it doesn't reflect well on the organizational scouting and player development in-house.
To his credit he made the most of his opportunity. But it doesn't reflect well on the organizational scouting and player development in-house.
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So is it a slap in that face because multiple guys in Utica earned a shot and didn't get it, or does it reflect badly on the scouts because nobody in the AHL played well enough to earn a shot. I'm all for being upset, just point me in the right direction.
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Probably a bit of both.
And perhaps on the front office for including prospects like Mukhmadullin and Okhotiuk in the Meier trade and also letting Colin Miller leave when there weren't enough quality defensemen in the organization.
Seems like you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Edit: When 4 of your top 10 D are unavailable, claiming tweeners on waivers is something most teams are going to do. Not sure how many teams are really rolling with 11 or 12 NHL caliber D. I don't think it's coincidental that DeSimone was claimed right after Cal Foote got punted into space.
Siegenthaler-Hamilton
Bahl-Marino
Hughes-Miller
Smith
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Hatakka-Nemec
Misyul-Foote
Wotherspoon-Russo
Vukojevich
Vilen
Siegenthaler-Hamilton-Smith were out with injuries. Foote was suspended indefinitely. Hatakka and Nemec were already called up. Misyul and Vilen were first year pros. Wotherspoon and Russo are AHL vets (pretty sure Russo was only on an AHL deal). Team determined that they'd rather go waiver wire if only to add a warm body as they'd be running out of bodies in the AHL too.
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Good on him. He deserves it.
Doesn't NJD have an ultra young top 4? When flashes had that, Sutter's veteran bottom pairing of Zadorov and Gudbranson helped to stabilize them.
I wonder if management didn't want more youngsters lining up in the bottom pairing and over played to add to the injury woes after the season they were having/just had.
Doesn't NJD have an ultra young top 4? When flashes had that, Sutter's veteran bottom pairing of Zadorov and Gudbranson helped to stabilize them.
I wonder if management didn't want more youngsters lining up in the bottom pairing and over played to add to the injury woes after the season they were having/just had.
