I can't see New Jersey having any interest in all in that move.

I wouldn’t be so quick to trade for a Dman. Savard is doing a good job. Barron is going to get stronger, Kovacevic is surprisingly efficient and his plus minus would back that. Plus you have 25 goal dman in Mailloux. Montreal is set on both left and right side.

We would be able to get a 4th from someone for Hoff @ 50%, no need to add Carters cap hit for free.

A top 4 dman for a bottom 6 forward?

If I'm Caufield, I'd sign a bridge to cash in 2 years later after I put 40-50 goals

If I'm the Devils I have zero interest in doing that

Devils counter with Miles Wood's UFA rights for Josh Anderson and Lane Hutson.

Edmundson a no. He’s a leftie and not wanted even with retained money. Buffalo not needing retained and near done

Right a bottom 6 winger, that is why the Oilers reportedly offered a 1st + Bourgault for him right? Fans on this site are whacked, they don't like the rumors that are floating around the hockey world so they try to downplay them by saying the player sucks or is a bottom 6 player or whatever. The fans that do this really have no idea what they are talking about, they are just spewing whatever crap they can to make themselves feel better cause they don't like the idea.

Josh Anderson at $2.75m gets the 4th.

An AHLer and a 3rd only get Marino if Ron Hextall takes over for Fitzy.

Finally someone intelligent enough to adress thé gap at RD!
Mailloux is absolutely not ready defe.sively to play NHL.
Savard should be at best a no 4.
I like it

I'm sure that you don't believe in Santa Claus or The Tooth Fairy, so what makes you accept THIS nonsense?

Never mind what you or I or anyone else think about Josh Anderson's value . . . pick yourself up out of your Montreal chair and try looking at this "report" from Edmonton's point of view.

From at least the midpoint of last season right through to today, the Oilers have consistently been a cap-strapped team whose enormous offensive abilities have been matched by their obvious defensive shortcomings. Moreover, their GM has consistently stressed the need he perceives to upgrade their defense (hence the Ekholm acquisition). So the idea that Edmonton would have made an offer for Josh Anderson is only slightly less silly than the thought that they would have asked about Christian Dvorak.

Now if you want to believe that Ken Holland made this offer for David Savard, or Michael Matheson, and Kent Hughes rejected it, go right ahead -- that at least makes some sort of sense and has a germ of rational foundation to it. And if you want to believe that some team needing offense, or "grit," made a similar offer, be my guest. But unless you were actually in the room when Ken Holland made this purported offer, you have absolutely no intelligent basis for believing that it was made. (It reminds me of the famous MacKenzie-Weegar-for-Andreas-Johnsson offer Florida allegedly made a couple of years ago which Kyle Dubas reportedly turned down -- a "report" that nobody has ever confirmed, probably because it puts both sides in such a bad light simultaneously!)

Ask yourself this -- to whose benefit does this story attach? Certainly not Edmonton's, because they would look foolish for having made it. Certainly not Montreal's, because they would look foolish having rejected it. So what reliable source would have let it slip? Would YOU do that to YOUR boss?

A massive cap dump now gets you a top four right shot defenseman ? Wow I learned something new today

Very doubtful Buffalo would trade for Edmundson. 1 year of term left, injury prone, and he has been pretty bad for the past 2 years. There would be better options for a 3LD in UFA, or from a cap strapped team looking to dump a player.

Josh Anderson would be a bottom 6 winger on the Devils. He's not better than Bratt, Meier, Palat, or Mercer

Tampa literally traded a 1st + in a bottom 6 forward in Tanner Jeannot

Add cole caufield or both your firsts and the devils consider

Any proof to that statement?

Name which of these players Anderson plays above:
Dawson Mercer, Timo Meier, Jesper Bratt, Ondrej Palat.
Those are the no brainers.
Going down:
Yegor Sharangovich, Tomas Tatar.
In the future:
Alexander Holtz, Arseni Gritsyuk

Yeah you're right he's more of a healthy scratch

Of the Devils' current roster wingers, only Miles Wood is a worse asset. Bastian is better flat out (arguably Boqvist too), Boqvist and Lazar can play C, and all three plus Foote add up to less cap hit than Anderson.

Boqvist>bastian
Boqvist>anderson

Way better play driver and way better defensively