Confirmed with Link: Timo Meier extended (8 x $8.8)

[FooteBahl]

guess the real question now is, who do i get on my blank?!?!?!

Meier? Bratt? Hughes? Other Hughes?

the only jersey i have fit to wear right now is an Elias LMAO

Other other Hughes?

 

[Bcap88]

Problem with Meier is that we don't know if he's going to change his number back to 28 now that it's available again.

Find out tomorrow

Novo said he will ask him

 

[PWiz30]

Yeah I'll probably wait it out and see. I'm ok w/ a blank in the offseason.

yeah except i'm too old and will still be confused with jack despite the enormous size difference

Back when Haula had the scoring touch of John Scott in a non-all star game I used to always get so disappointed when I saw someone headman the puck to him and realized it wasn't Jack a second later.

 

[Nubmer6]

I can't relate. My wife and I both work from home.

Even better!!!

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

Just want to add - i was indifferent last year about the Gaudreau loss. I thought our forwards would be too small with him.

I think we dodged a bullet. Meier at 8.8 vs. Gaudreau at 9.5 (maybe more).

Sure - Gaudreau should be more of a point producer. But he would almost be redundant here with Jack's coming out party.

The makeup of our top 6 is more dynamic now.

I am pleased.

 

[Capt Nico Poo]

I can't relate. My wife and I both work from home.

You live in a studio? come on, wheres the magic!

 

[PWiz30]

Even better!!!

You live in a studio? come on, wheres the magic!

I said wife, not girlfriend.

And 4 bedroom house. Gotta have some spare bedrooms for the future Devils fans.

 

[NJDevs26]

Fitz really didn’t f*** around. Bratt and Meier signed longterm in less than 2 weeks.

He didn't, but really we knew there had to be a resolution one way or another on both by now. Thankfully both players DID want to stay in the end and not play the whole get to FA game. What's actually more impressive are the moves around the edges Fitz continues to do - getting the pick for Severson he used to trade for Toffoli, getting anything at all for Blackwood, etc. It's a measure of Fitz's creativity and vision that even now, when by all accounts we should be all but done with big moves this offseason I can't even rule another one out.

And yeah I think we can put the salary hierarchy bullshit to an end...there's no hierarchy if two guys are getting paid more than the guy who's the supposed celling (and at least one other guy was offered above that too). He may not have wanted to pay Bratt more than Hughes simply because he didn't want to pay Bratt a number that started with 8 to begin with.

 

[NJDevs26]

Just want to add - i was indifferent last year about the Gaudreau loss. I thought our forwards would be too small with him.

I think we dodged a bullet. Meier at 8.8 vs. Gaudreau at 9.5 (maybe more).

Sure - Gaudreau should be more of a point producer. But he would almost be redundant here with Jack's coming out party.

The makeup of our top 6 is more dynamic now.

I am pleased.

Yeah thank god Johnny Blue Jacket turned us down, I'd take Timo ten out of ten times even with what we had to give up to get him.

 

[Bad Goalie]

Oh no!

We might not have enough money to overpay McLeod and other RFA's!

I don't think we have enough money to re-sign Wood and Graves either!

Graves and Tatar should take care of it and Wood wouldn't be a loss either.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Just want to add - i was indifferent last year about the Gaudreau loss. I thought our forwards would be too small with him.

I think we dodged a bullet. Meier at 8.8 vs. Gaudreau at 9.5 (maybe more).

Sure - Gaudreau should be more of a point producer. But he would almost be redundant here with Jack's coming out party.

The makeup of our top 6 is more dynamic now.

I am pleased.

but where do we slot Tom Wilson now?

 

[Camille the Eel]

Unless Boqvist would somehow actually be a piece for a Hellebuyck trade he should be brought back and I don’t really see how he’d be a cap casualty. We have just over 10 mil left and the 4 RFAs probably end up like 6ish or something total. I don’t see another big addition outside of potentially goaltending and if that’s the case Vitek might end up going to other way.

We will probably add some depth defenseman, probably right handed (as you suggested actually). Hopefully someone sturdy and cheap in the mold of the Dmitry Kulikov acquisition a few years back. Someone who can help on the PK maybe.

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

but where do we slot Tom Wilson now?

We have until the deadline to figure that out

 

[Nubmer6]

We will probably add some depth defenseman, probably right handed (as you suggested actually). Hopefully someone sturdy and cheap in the mold of the Dmitry Kulikov acquisition a few years back. Someone who can help on the PK maybe.

I trust Fitz with his defenseman evaluations. He'll dig a diamond out somewhere.

 

[Capt Nico Poo]

Yeah thank god Johnny Blue Jacket turned us down, I'd take Timo ten out of ten times even with what we had to give up to get him.

And twice on Sunday

 

[Bcap88]

Interesting tidbit

 

[MasterofGrond]

Not surprising. Glad Tommy boy had the guts to do the deal anyway. Not every GM would have.

 

[Whaddagoal]

It happened. Omg!!

 

[NJDevs26]

Not surprising. Glad Tommy boy had the guts to do the deal anyway. Not every GM would have.

Not every GM was in our position at the deadline last year either...thank goodness we were in a playoff spot by a mile for most of the season. Maybe the mentality would have been different if we had a Panther-like season and were scratching just to get to the bubble.

 

[Nubmer6]

It happened. Omg!!

It happened.

 

[MartyOwns]

all right, start the f***ing season already

 

[glenwo2]

I figure it's time to RE-USE this again :



LET'S.

F*CKING.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[njdevils1982]

When you move from darkness to the sun, you can burn your retina. As a qualified doctor(i`m not), I advise you not to make such comparisons.

"I come from a long way away
And I know a fine thing when I see it
See it
For the same reason no one ever pointed a telescope at the sun"

 

[Devs3cups]

 

[Blackjack]

I don’t think it would have been possible to imagine better forward depth than Hughes, Hischier, Meier, Bratt, Toffoli, Mercer to start the season.

All these $8ish million contracts are going to look absolutely amazing in three years.