Ce n’est un secret pour personne que pendant la majeure partie de la saison 23-24, les Devils ont été victimes d’intimidation sur la glace. En réponse à une performance embarrassante contre les Rangers, les Devils sont sortis et ont acquis Kurtis MacDermid. Ceux qui connaissent le jeu de MacDermid savent que son jeu est strictement une question de physique. J’ai aimé le commerce à l’époque et j’ai accueilli favorablement un retour de MacDermid en supposant que son AAV se situerait autour de 850 à 900 000 pendant 1 à 2 ans. Lorsqu’il a signé un 3×1,15 m, ma position sur MacDermid a changé non seulement en ce qui concerne le numéro pour lequel il a signé, mais aussi la probabilité qu’il occupe une place sur la liste pendant la majorité des 3 prochaines années.
À l’heure actuelle, les Diables ont plusieurs blessures clés (Pesce, Hughes et Hatakka). Lorsque ces 3 joueurs reviendront de blessure, des décisions concernant leur effectif devront être prises. Outre MacDermid, Nolan Foote et Santeri Hatakka ne sont pas exemptés de dérogation. La différence entre MacDermid et les 2 autres joueurs est que Foote et Hatakka ont 23 ans et sont considérés comme des joueurs avec un avenir potentiel à Jersey. Les Devils risqueraient-ils de perdre Foote ou Hatakka juste pour garder MacDermid sur la liste, d’autant plus que MacDermid jouera strictement contre des équipes comme les Rangers, les Flyers, les Panthers, etc. ? Il est peu probable que quiconque obtienne 3 ans à 1,15 million pour les services de MacDermid. OMI, ce serait une erreur d’exposer Foote ou Hatakka à des dérogations alors que MacDermid serait probablement autorisé.
Avec une liste en parfaite santé, mon équipe serait
Meier-Hughes-Bratt
Tatar-Hischier-Mercer
Palais-Haula-Nosen
Cotter-Lazar-Bastian
Dillon-Hamilton
Hughes-Pesce
Siegenthaler-Nemec
Markström
Allen
Extras : Foote, Hatakka, Kovacevic
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Since they won’t waive a useless fighter, they should waive Bastian. Foote is better. It won’t happen but it should. Hatakka would probably clear waivers also. Especially in the middle of the season.
John Fischer’s head just exploded.
first – you glossed over this in your post, but McD fits a need on this team that Foote and Hatskka don’t. He is an intimidating brute that we want to go head to head with Rempe. He also apparently is a great locker room guy who is constantly giving our skill guys pointers on how to stand up for themselves and play tougher.
second – It is much better for Foote and Hatakka’s development to play in Utica and keep getting games under their belt.
I do see the argument for keeping Foote as an extra, he is probably the next man up if there’s an injury with our forward group (unless we sign LaBanc) – but i don’t think we need to be so precious about him. He’s an injury-prone bottom 6 forward who has had trouble making the jump from AHL to NHL. Literally every team in the league has at least a handful of these prospects already in their system, i don’t think anyone is going to jump at the chance to pluck him off the waiver wire. Same with Hatakka.
No we shouldn’t get rid of MacDaddy.
Next question
I think Bastian is more likely to go if anyone. He has one year left on his deal and we wouldn’t have needed to sign MacDermid if he played that enforcer role that we thought he might.
Foote doesn’t currently fill a role in the roster other than a fill-in for injury. While I like him he hasn’t done enough for me to be concerned about losing him. Hata is a current work in progress so he gets the benefit of the doubt until he proves one way or the other.
McD fills a role, does it well and can be used as needed by the coaching staff. My only concern is that he’s not used every game and the ones where he isn’t on the ice is where you wish he was for a dirty play or two. I miss Mason Geertsen quite frankly because he was a better skater and I felt could be coached to get his game where it needed to be… But I’m not in the NHL as a scout/player development coach or otherwise.
We should also bring back cam and geersten right
Foote hasnt done anything to prove he has earned a roster spot. MacDermid serves basically one purpose and he isnt much money. If they are going to make a deep run you need someone like him.
Praise the gods we have MacDermid. Our guys were getting pushed around almost nightly. When we won Stanley Cups we had major beef in the lineup, and the difference was striking.