If Holtz has a good start this season, how about weaponising his future upside for a franchise goalie ?
Just a thought.

Devils decline due to DeSmith's criminal history

In total honesty. I do not think Schmid will only be playing once a week. I think its far more likely that he ends up splitting time with Vanacek 41,41 or 45,37 for Vanacek or something along those lines. I wouldn't even be that surprised to see Schmid get more games. I know you don't bank on unknowns but the amount of discussion where Vanacek gets 60+ games is kind of wild and I just don't see it happening

If Holtz has a good start this season, how about weaponising his future upside for a franchise goalie ?
Just a thought.

Was he one of the Hockey Canada guys like McLeod?

Domestic violence and resisting arrest

Value for Desmith might be there, but none of the trade makes sense for Mtl. Trading Petry, Dvorak, and even Armia might be more important tasks for Mtl than trading one of the goalies, especially Desmith. On all of those contracts, they'd like to retain(including Allen).

In the end, using a retention spot on Casey would only leave one for Petry or someone else(including a deal like Boninos last year). Tyce, although I liked him when I went to a Utica game is not the biggest add to the Habs, then to give up a pick also probably isn't in Hughes' ideas.



(Hughes has yet to give up picks except for same round swaps and for 1st round picked players. Doesn't really mean much, but that he's not keen on giving up draft capital)

Not spending him on a 30yr old goalie. It would have to be a Saros type situation.

I think people continue to overlook how much just dumping Blackwood and replacing his 20+ games with Schmid helps the Devils.

I don't know if NAS are ready to trade Saros and ride on Askarov's future. Might be their best move looking forward.
What would you trade to get Saros?

He's giving up a pick but getting a higher one. So its really a swap, although not a big one. And agree with you on the retained salary spots but I can't imagine he's going to be able to trade more than one of those other guys this year even with 50% retained. On something like this, maybe he could get rid of Petry or Savard at half off but I doubt both. Don't think anyone would touch Armia or Dvorak with multiple years left, even going through a second team at 75% off. If he can get something for Monahan or Desmith or Montelbault, he'd have all three retained slots to use next year and should be able to dump all three in a contract year with retention.