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

[Emperoreddy]

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

Yeah the reaction seems a bit too extreme. He helps this team out now and does stuff everyone claims we need, and is a major culture guy.

 

[LoktionovMVP]

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

I mean, its not a bad strategy if the player actually improved the team. The cap is fake and we see teams wiggle out of cap-related jams every off-season

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

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

Again take a look at what Evolving wild had as his projection

 

[Eggtimer]

Idiotic move. Fitz is too conservative up until now then he decides to give out way too much term and $$ on a medicore player that is propped up by playing with elite line-mates .

 

[Captain3rdLine]

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

At worst it could cause problems when we’re trying to resign Hughes and Nemec in 4 years. Will have a year left, cap should be higher and worst case it’s a buyout.

Longer than I’d like as well but he’s a good player.

Not sure how you can be freaking out like this but were acting like giving Gaudreau 11M was nothing to worry about. He could go right back to the 70 point player he was in the previous two seasons and all the sudden that contract is looking a lot worse for 6 more years.

 

[Devils090]

I like Palat, i really do but that contract stinks.

Again if we can get 2/3 solid years out of him I’ll be thrilled but man that’s not a great deal.

 

[SKNJD9]

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 is this # is accurate.

Doubt it's a knee jerk when we were reported as in on him last night. We likely went a little longer and more expensive than we wanted but there was a big market for palat as being reported right now.

is what it is, ufa sucks

 

[Emperoreddy]

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.

They haven't had a proper vet leader on this team since Zajac left and let's be honest. Trav Trav did very little actually winning in his career.

 

[Oneiro]

Yeah, figured it would be 6M. Why else would he wait so long?

 

[NjDevsRR]

I hope Palat somehow explodes here. Some of these takes are TRASH.

 

[Devils731]

Idiotic move. Fitz is too conservative up until now then he decides to give out way too much term and $$ on a medicore player that is propped up by playing with elite line-mates .

So conservative he signed the most expensive free agent last offseason and tried to do it again this offseason but he’s so conservative.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

 

[New Jersey Devils]

Yeesh this place man. We lose out on JG and get the next best available LW on the market and we’re proclaiming this offseason to be trash and are in #FireFitz mode.

There was literally nothing else Fitz could have done for JG. He simply did not want to come here. An argument can surely be made for Fiala or Cat but to panic and proclaim failure is asinine.

 

[Monsieur Verdoux]

Idiotic move. Fitz is too conservative up until now then he decides to give out way too much term and $$ on a medicore player that is propped up by playing with elite line-mates .

The contract sucks, but he isn't a mediocre player.

 

[Blackjack]

How are people defending this? This is f***ing awful, we’re going to be dying to get rid of this contract for years.

This is the next James Neal, Milan Lucic shackle.

 

[Unknown Caller]

I hope Palat somehow explodes here. Some of these takes are TRASH.

Yes, the 31 year old coming off a million games of hockey in the last two years is somehow going to explode on the scene.

 

[Forge]

4 hours ago I said I expected us to give him 6x6.

Hell, I feel like I came out a winner here

 

[Captain3rdLine]

How are people defending this? This is f***ing awful, we’re going to be dying to get rid of this contract for years.

This is the next James Neal, Milan Lucic shackle.

Huh, at worst it’s a pain in the last year or two. Far from a shackle and not even that high.

 

[Jets012]

Yea that's a meh deal.

I get the arguments on both sides. I get that we have the flexibility and he's a great fit.

I get that it can be viewed as bad asset management that could hurt us down the line.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I don't think there was a single thing Fitz could have done today they would not have garnered major complaining.

 

[Eggtimer]

Again take a look at what Evolving wild had as his projection

What is it ? Can’t be 6+. If it is , I pit zero faith and merit into their projections

 

[Blackjack]

Yeesh this place man. We lose out on JG and get the next best available LW on the market and we’re proclaiming this offseason to be trash and are in #FireFitz mode.

There was literally nothing else Fitz could have done for JG. He simply did not want to come here. An argument can surely be made for Fiala or Cat but to panic and proclaim failure is asinine.

Yeah, because we paid him $30 million and he probably won’t be worth his contract in the first year.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

6m x 5 is terrible. If he’s above a replacement level middle 6er in 4 years we’ll be lucky. Hopefully cap explodes so price doesn’t matter. Year 5 he’ll be dumped unless the team is rebuilding again.

Downside risk of this deal is huge.

 

[Hisch13r]

Good chance he ends up getting dumped right when we’re going to start contending

 

[Captain3rdLine]