Confirmed with Link: Weekesbomb: Palat to NJ for five-year deal

[SKNJD9]

People are gonna make a big deal out of nothing. Doesn't matter if you like the deal or not in our situation it does nothing to hamper us, now or 3 yrs from now.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Not great, but not as bad as that fake 7.5 that the Twitter trolls vomited out.

I can live with it. Makes us better next year

 

[Hisch13r]

This offseason by Fitzgerald is slowly approaching trash territory.

It’s there.

 

[LoktionovMVP]

Fitz is a moron

 

[DerekDevils30]

Cool. Sign Bratt. Get rid of Johnsson or let him ride the pine and let’s rock and roll. We can all gather at Palat‘s funeral next off-season.

 

[Hisch13r]

People are gonna make a big deal out of nothing. Doesn't matter if you like the deal or not in our situation it does nothing to hamper us, now or 3 yrs from now.

You literally don’t know that. The odds this goes south and requires assets to dump is far from minimal.

 

[MadDevil]

Fitz misses out on Gaudreau - Fitz didn't try hard enough!

Fitz signs Palat - Fitz tried too damn hard!

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

You literally don’t know that. The odds this goes south and requires assets to dump is far from minimal.

How about we worry about that in four years instead of now?

 

[OmNomNom]

But Fitz is still good, right guys?

when did we care about contracts, when everyone was yelling "we couldn't beat columbus' deall???"

 

[ZachaFlockaFlame]

That is one grotesque contract, my lord. It's gonna have to be eaten in a few years as a cap dump.

 

[Devilsgrl35]

Not a fan of the contract but like the player. The cap will go up dramatically in the not too distant future and this shouldn't hinder us. He's been in a winning locker room and will bring badly needed experience to a young team.

 

[NJDevs26]

LOL some of you really do come off like you'd be happy with losing forever just so long as we don't have any whiff of a bad contract

 

[Blackjack]

Ehh, Chill.

If David Perron can get 10m for 2 years at 34, from the great mind of Stevey Y, then a 31 can get a 5 year deal..

I’d rather $10 x 2 than this. By far.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

 

[NJDevs26]

You literally don’t know that. The odds this goes south and requires assets to dump is far from minimal.

Ottawa just dealt two years of Matt Murray at 20% retained for a third-rounder, big whoop. Tampa just gave away McDonaugh on a boat anchor of a four-year deal for nothing, you guys wouldn't have even re-signed McDonaugh being worried about the last three years of that contract.

 

[Unknown Caller]

How about we worry about that in four years instead of now?

Horrendous strategy. Sure, kick the can down the road and let future Devils worry about it.

 

[Blackjack]

LOL some of you really do come off like you'd be happy with losing forever just so long as we don't have any whiff of a bad contract

Lol, Palat’s ossified remains are gonna move the needle

 

[NjDevsRR]

There’s not enough Dano memes in the world that I can make to create enough levity to balance the absolute garbage takes in this thread.

Woof.

 

[Devils090]

I’d rather $10 x 2 than this. By far.

Especially after Perron had 27 goals

 

[SteveCangialosi123]

LOL some of you really do come off like you'd be happy with losing forever just so long as we don't have any whiff of a bad contract

That 2nd round pick we have to ditch in 4 years to ship him to Arizona is going to set us back

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Horrendous strategy. Sure, kick the can down the road and let future Devils worry about it.

The Devils had four players signed for next season coming into today. They have some of the best roster flexibility in the league. I do. Not. Care.

 

[Edmonton East]

So, uh, if you look at the other contracts handed out today....

This is a travesty lol. Not even because of the overpay....more so because it shows how desperate / knee jerky / unprepared this front office was once again after Plan A failed.

3 years at $6 would be fine. No idea how they gave him an extra 2 at that age with that many miles. Virtually every other forward signing today was better value (ignoring individual team needs). Not a great reflection on the org if this # is accurate.

 

[Unknown Caller]

Ottawa just dealt two years of Matt Murray at 20% retained for a third-rounder, big whoop. Tampa just gave away McDonaugh on a boat anchor of a four-year deal for nothing.

McDonagh is still very very good and is ten times the player Palat is. Plus defensemen age out much better than forwards.

 

[Hisch13r]

How about we worry about that in four years instead of now?

He’s not even going to be worth 6 in the short term.

 

[Zippy316]

Feels like the deal is a year too long and probably a million too high on AAV if the 5 x 6 million is correct.

But at some point, Devils needed to make a deal like this. We didn’t exactly have the luxury of a holdover veteran forward from the last regime that most rebuilding teams have. The kids need a player like Palat and constantly differing to the trash heap pickups was never going to turn the corner.