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New Jersey Devils: 5 Terrible Trade Proposals For 2nd Overall Pick
The New Jersey Devils moved up within the NHL Draft Lottery and are actually choosing second general. In the course of the IIHF World Championships, Juraj Slafkovsky was one of many extra dominant younger gamers on the ice. Throughout his exit interview, Devils GM Tom Fitzgerald talked about that he was prepared to commerce his first-round draft choose for the proper participant, however that was again when it was the fifth or sixth general choose.
All of this stuff matter within the ensuing article. That’s as a result of there have been some CRAZY affords for the second-overall choose. No, these aren’t the form of loopy affords that can really transfer the necessity for Fitzgerald. These are the kinds of offers that make us shake our heads and giggle on the opposing fanbase.
They’re nonetheless value speaking about, if not for pure enjoyable. We went on CapFriendly’s Armchair GM to see a few of the trades being proposed. We solely checked out offers being proposed by different fanbases. Let’s simply say we had been stunned on the “stars” followers had been “prepared” to surrender right here.
Josh Anderson #17 of the Montreal Canadiens. (Picture by Wealthy Graessle/Getty Photos)
Montreal Canadiens commerce proposal
Devils Get
Josh Anderson
Mattias Norlinder
27th-overall pick
Canadiens Get
2nd-overall pick
We’ve seen way too many iterations of this trade proposal. Josh Anderson is not worth the second-overall pick. No lie, we’ve seen AT LEAST a dozen different examples where Montreal Canadiens fans proposed a deal for the second-overall pick that surrounded Josh Anderson. Why in the heck would the Devils even consider it? We ran a poll on this, and it’s going about as well as you could imagine.
Anderson is sitting on a contract that pays him $5.5 million for the next five seasons. That contract is atrocious right now for a player who had just 32 points this past season. He did score 19 goals on an obviously tanking Canadiens team, but he had eight of those points in November. He was consistently inconsistent the entire season.
Anderson is a fine player overall. He’s not someone you don’t want on your team, we guess. However, to even consider him the centerpiece of a trade that moves you up 25 picks to allow you to pick second overall and takes the Devils out of the top guys in a draft with very little depth is preposterous.