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Confirmed Trade: [NSH/NJD] Erik Haula for Jeremy Hanzel and 2025 4th round pick

We need someone to put on the ice if/when we trade Sissons, ROR, Marchessault, etc. and he can be flipped for another low pick at the deadline.
There will be free warm bodies available in two weeks. We can also flip them at the deadline. Trading a pick and prospect, even not great ones, is awful asset management.
 
not trying to troll at all, but can a Nashville fan give us perspective on why they'd want Haula? Would you expect this is setting up a more significant trade?
Nashville fans have not understood what Trotz is doing for quite awhile. In theory this could be to get a replacement for Sissons/ROR if they are traded, but why bother? Just sign someone.

Trotz seems to legit think we can contend next year. All signs point to that.
 
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makes no sense to me from an Nashville POV.
Potentially doesn't make sense for the Devs either. They are already cap strapped (Luke extension and difficult to move contracts with restrictive clauses). They were light on Center depth before this and have ZERO Centers in the pipeline. So now the Devs desperately need 2 Centers with still limited cap. Idk why you'd make this move before being certain you could get at least 1 top 9 C (that isn't Cody f'n Glass). GM Tom Fitzgerald's kink is dealing from weakness with the least leverage possible though so....
 
There will be free warm bodies available in two weeks. We can also flip them at the deadline. Trading a pick and prospect, even not great ones, is awful asset management.
How many capable centers signed a 1 year deal with terrible, rebuilding teams last year? Zero. Duchene and Roslovic were the only remotely noteworthy centers that signed a 1 year deal period.
 
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Potentially doesn't make sense for the Devs either. They are already cap strapped (Luke extension and difficult to move contracts with restrictive clauses). They were light on Center depth before this and have ZERO Centers in the pipeline. So now the Devs desperately need 2 Centers with still limited cap. Idk why you'd make this move before being certain you could get at least 1 top 9 C (that isn't Cody f'n Glass). GM Tom Fitzgerald's kink is dealing from weakness with the least leverage possible though so....
Mercer can play center can't he?
 
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Mercer can play center can't he?
TBD. He hasn't played at Center much in the NHL. Did a bit after Jack Hughes went down again, but wasn't serviceable at the dot among other struggles. Hughes takes faceoffs at a pathetic 38% clip and has shown no desire to give a shit about them and be serviceable at the dot (say, 45% or so). This in part leads to Hischier getting the most brutal deployments of any top 6 C in the league. Haula was literally the only other NHL faceoff caliber player on the entire roster........
 
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Potentially doesn't make sense for the Devs either. They are already cap strapped (Luke extension and difficult to move contracts with restrictive clauses). They were light on Center depth before this and have ZERO Centers in the pipeline. So now the Devs desperately need 2 Centers with still limited cap. Idk why you'd make this move before being certain you could get at least 1 top 9 C (that isn't Cody f'n Glass). GM Tom Fitzgerald's kink is dealing from weakness with the least leverage possible though so....
And right on cue…

Haula isn’t leverage, Devils needed center depth with him on the roster just as bad as they do now with him off lmao
 
And right on cue…

Haula isn’t leverage, Devils needed center depth with him on the roster just as bad as they do now with him off lmao
:laugh: Haula took the 2nd most faceoffs on the team and was 1 of 2 guys on the entire roster with over 400 faceoffs taken and above a 40% win rate. The other was Hischier...who had to take 1800 because no one else can win an effing faceoff. It screws up matchups, usage, and deployments. Try again bud.
 
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Nashville can get a better pick on the flip because there is a possible they retain (2 slots open) so it makes sense. For the Devils last year was about remaking defense and goaltending this year is about remaking the bottom 2 lines (plus 2nd line winger.
 
Faceoffs are fake in 90% of game situations, next question.

Classic BS from the usual suspects. Getting rid of Erik Haula is such a huge W, there is zero downside to this
Sorry, some of us like to live in reality and actually understand hockey at least a little bit. If you dont think this messes up your matchups, usage, and deployments at a minimum, I can't help you.

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