The New Jersey Devils and San Jose Sharks traded players.
Timo Meier will wear the Devils bunt in the future. AOP / USA TODAY Sports
Sharks goal stick Timo Meierthe attacker Timur Ibragimovdefenders Scott Harrington and Santeri Hatakka and the goalkeeper Zachary Emond move to the Devils.
In addition, the Devils will receive a fifth-round draft pick for the summer of 2024 from San Jose.
The Swedish attackers are heading in the other direction Fabian Zetterlund and Andreas Johnson and Russian packages Nikita Okhotyuk and By Shakir Muhmadulli.
The California club also received a conditional first-round pick for next summer, a conditional second-round pick for summer 2024, and a seventh-round pick for summer 2024.
The most significant player in the deal is star forward Meier, 26, whose contract expires this season. The Swiss has scored 31+21=52 in 57 games this season. Meier is therefore on pace for the season with 44 goals and 73 points.
San Jose will keep half of Meier’s $6 million cap hit salary.
The deal was done
There were other trades in the NHL over the weekend.
Boston and Colorado started shopping when the goalkeeper Keith Kinkaid moved to Kallivuori in exchange for center to Shane Bowers.
Rangers acquired of William Lockwood and a 7th round pick from Vancouver. You traveled in the other direction Vitaly Kravtsov.
Yevgeny Dadonov moved from Montreal to Dallas with Montreal keeping half of the man’s $5 million cap hit salary. Denis Gurianov went the other way.
Colorado acquired the familiar hero pack from last season Jack Johnson’s from Chicago. Sent in return Andreas Englund.
Vegas emboldened more firepower from St. Louis when it beckoned Ivan Barbashev to the city. Zach Dean made room and moved to music shirts.
Go to retirement
The weekend in Nashville was also colorful. The club made no less than three deals.
First it sent By Nino Niederreiter To the freezing temperatures of Winnipeg. The second round of bookings for summer 2024 came in Palauposti.
Then it offered By Tanner Jeannot to Tampa Bay. The country club received this as a thank you Cal Foote and as many as five reserve rounds (3rd round 2023, 4th round 2023, 5th round 2023, 2nd round 2024, conditional 1st round 2025).
Finally Isaac Ratcliffe traveled from Philadelphia organization to Nashville. It is not yet known how the Flyers benefited from this transfer.
At the end of a tough weekend, GM David Poile said he will retire after the current season. The club’s ex coach sits on the man’s ball Barry Trotz.
Poile, 73, has been the Preds’ manager since their inception. Nashville started in the NHL in the 1998 season.