You couldn't even pay Johnny G more than Columbus to come home. Good luck with that lmao

Pretty easy to do without including valuable assets. Everyone in the league has those guys

oh you mean the born and raised flyer fan that never wanted to play here?! Yeah great example.

It might be, but it also would not shock me if the return is actually less.

go take a look at how high those guys PNHLe are and tell me again how everyone has those guys. The devils system is loaded my friend. We have major assets. You don’t want them, somebody else will

Oh. I must have just scrolled up quick again and mixed up the retention on Meier with the Domi deal. Either way, I'm not sure CHI takes Johnsson back for that, but they might just to have a body to finish the season and make the deal work. The more important thing is probably keeping the retention slot open unless a deal is good enough to warrant using it. But, we'll see.

Go trade them for Tarasenko then. No one else has Meier

works for me, I’ll give up even less for him

Yes and guess what, a year later theres 2 more guys available. The devils have a LONG window, and Id be perfectly fine waiting on holtz, making some other trades for forwards, and moving forward with the likes of
Palat Hischier Bratt
Gritsyuk Hughes Holtz
Yegor mercer zetterlund
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Hamilton Siegs
Hughes Marino
Shakir Nemec

Vitek
Schmid

and plenty of cap space to fill out the 4th line. Heck the devils can go be sellers at the deadline if they wanted and move Wood, graves, severson, and tatar as rentals to extend their window even further. Graves and Severson themselves would have PLENTY of value and the devils can move them while still being able to run either John Marino or Simon Nemec as a 3rd pairing RHD for the next half decade

I really dont care who gets Meier, I am just telling you what it will take to make a competitive offer.

If you wanted someone less expensive but also good, Horvat just slipped through your fingers