Devils likely can’t afford Nylander long term at around 10M

Devils decline quite easily.

Yes they can I just made a post about it

This trade is terrible for the Devils. Mercer alone is worth more than Nylander due to his age and contract situation

Giving away a 2nd, 1st, and effective player so they can give up a stud 21 year old, another 1st, 2nd, and 3rd for 1 year of surplus value from nylander

Plz for the love of god give it up.

As long as we have room for Josh Anderson I don't mind

No you didn't. You made a ridiculous MMC Palat trade to Arizona.

Will only cost Hughes, Nemec, Holtz and Lindy’s good eye.

Well this was an obvious troll acgm.

Hahahahahahaha. Even if the picks were coming to NJ, instead of going to Toronto, the Devils would say no to this foolishness.

Then the gm is dumb and should be fired

We don't have the cap room for Nylander long term. I don't care what you can do to squeeze him into a 20-man roster, we do not have the space for him, Bratt, and Meier. We just don't. It would mean being unable to pay anyone even the bare minimum, and it would also mean needing to sell off even more assets to make cap space. The improvement from Mercer to Nylander -- if there even is one, given Mercer's rate of development, age, and positional flexibility -- is just not worth the short term benefits of having Nylander in the lineup. We can't do it, no matter what fantastical nonsense you want to believe. Even if you're sending us the 1st round pick that we could then use to pawn Palat off on someone it still doesn't make sense for our long-term cap structure. No GM is going to take the next five years of NJ's future and cripple it by selling off valuable assets (and we do not have as many of those as we used to, certainly not to spare) and pushing us into utter cap hell. Any GM who did should absolutely be fired.