Trash trade. 21 man roster. Well done.

Not sure if im just biased leaf fan but Jake Gardiner at 8mill seems like an overpayment

Devils can afford it, they need to overpay FA’s for them to come over. As for the Vancouver trade thats on Benning to clear up an extra roster space, not my fault their team is built up of 5 Top 6 players and 8 4th liners

LMAO how does trading 1 player for 2 players clear up an extra roster space...

I just said that it would be a separate trade wholly without the devils that the canucks would have to do (send Leivo, Biega, really anyone to ottawa for a pick) I cant show that but obviously if Benning wanted to do this he would need to send some of his numerous 4th liners to a basement team

That VAN trade is a hard pass for them. Like you said, they already have an abundance of lesser talent, so why would they trade away one of their few 1st line caliber players for a package of more lesser talent?

And do not say for cap reasons. There are way easier and more desirable trades for them to make to clear up cap space, even if they have to hold onto Eriksson for the next three years.

Very true, Talvitie’s ceiling is probably 2nd line winger and in the right situation Zacha can be a fringe 2nd definite 3rd line center. I say for cap reasons because teams will be less likely to help out Vancouver when the Hughes Pettersson contracts rolls around, so the cap needs to be managed now when teams wont take too much advantage of a dire situation. Also if they can get Vatanen resigned for less than 4 million they will have a solid d core for the next 4-5 years. I appreciate the feedback though