Busy Offseason

Love that trade for the Devils

Wow, where to even start?

1- Petro is not getting 7 x damn near 11 unless he is leaving, which he's almost certainly not. It will probably be a little over 9m.
2- We have no use whatsoever for Johnston, but even without him I doubt NYI does this trade. I'd happily take it though.
3- Big no thanks on Smith, especially for 2 years.
4- Senn is not needed in our pool, and though Studenic might be *mildly* interesting to us as a side addition, we are not giving a 2020 2nd to shed one year of Allen. The way he's corrected his game and is playing, someone will pay better than that to get him this summer.
5- Fair heads up: Including Foley in our cap hit is a dead giveaway that someone doesn't know what they're on about. The guy hasn't played in eons and is likely finished as a pro due to concussion issues.

I'm gonna guess that Petro comes in around the 9.25-9.75m mark. That opens up a little more cap room, maybe enough to keep Allen as the backup for the last year of his deal. I would hate to pay to move anyone, especially considering how solid Jake has been as the backup this season.

If Pietrangelo re-signs, we should try our best to move Faulk before any of these other guys. It's not personal, but he's analytically very bad and we're paying him a ton to play on the third pairing. He's also not necessary with Pietrangelo and Parayko there. IDK how to do that with his NTC though.

I'd like to keep Allen too, but for similar reasons it's not feasible to pay a backup goalie that much money. I'd also like to keep Bozak, who has some of the best defensive analytics in the league this year (and last, actually) and he seems to be doing great with Thomas. But I'd move them both if it meant keeping Pietrangelo.

Faulk has barely played on the 3rd pairing. He's mostly been paired with Petro, and they were friggin' dynamite together. They need to be put back together.

And actually, his analytic numbers are better than Parayko-J-Bo's (though obviously they always got the toughest matchups and were more often out there with the checking line). That's not to say he's played better than Parayko, but it shows that analytics always need context.