Confirmed with Link: Devils re-sign Steve Bernier (1 year, $600k)

[LaikatheSpaceDog]

https://twitter.com/TGfireandice/status/484058476684267521

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[Bleedred]

I think I have diarrhea.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Just miserable

 

[MoonDragn]

at least it is only 600k, easy to bury in the minors if he sucks again.

 

[sddev]

Ridiculous. He brings nothing to the table.

 

[Bleedred]

Just miserable

Ray Emery may very well be better at his position than Bernier is DD.

Why did we re sign this ****box jalopy and not Carter?

 

[LaikatheSpaceDog]

I always thought Carter was the best of the three.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

the contract is literally a who cares, but he is not needed

 

[Wingman77]

He had a rough year, but yea who cares it's $600K for a guy that we saw has potential to be a good 4th liner and has fit well here in the past

What else would those upset have done? Bring in a guy for an extra $800K-$1m that wouldn't do much more than Bernier?

 

[NJDevs26]

I don't really get why Bernier was the one of the three to come back. If anything he should have been the most likely to go.

 

[MountainGoat]

why.... whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Carter should be back

 

[LaikatheSpaceDog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZGMM-I1fU

1:10 mark, Bernier gets hit with a choke slam.

 

[MountainGoat]

the contract is literally a who cares, but he is not needed

these "who cares" contracts are starting to build up...

 

[Devils Dominion]

I always thought Carter was the best of the three.

And he's the only one who won't be back.

Lou is senile.

 

[Wingman77]

these "who cares" contracts are starting to build up...

There is absolutely no risk in 2 contracts we signed guys to today - there is only upside, if they don't work out oh well we have other options to try

And he's the only one who won't be back.

Lou is senile.

Because we know how the negotiation situation went and is going with Carter

Right. Thanks.

Edit: Exactly my point;
Tom Gulitti ‏@TGfireandice
Indications are Carter is coming back too. I just haven't gotten that confirmed yet.

 

[Emperoreddy]

@Ledger_NJDevils: Lamoriello on Steve Bernier's 1-year, $600,000 deal: "He did not have a good year. We brought him back to resurrect his career."

 

[Devils Dominion]

@Ledger_NJDevils: Lamoriello on Steve Bernier's 1-year, $600,000 deal: "He did not have a good year. We brought him back to resurrect his career."

Are we the Good Will or a NHL team?

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

this should be Mattaeu's spot

 

[JK3]

@Ledger_NJDevils: Lamoriello on Steve Bernier's 1-year, $600,000 deal: "He did not have a good year. We brought him back to resurrect his career."

Oh **** off, resurrect your career as bag boy at A&P. Can't believe Lou resigned this garbage.

 

[NJDevs26]

We resurrected his career once already, that's the irony of that quote. He was washed up in the AHL when we signed him.

 

[Wingman77]

Steve Bernier is a cheap option on a team currently with a surplus of forwards, many of which struggled offensively last year and Bernier is a guy that had success here and much like the rest of his teammates, again had a tough year offensively last year

It's an option not a 10 year deal

 

[Bleedred]

Oh **** off, resurrect your career as bag boy at A&P. Can't believe Lou resigned this garbage.

I LOL'd at the bag boy at A&P part.

There is an off chance that he's buried in the minors, but I don't think so with his two buddies being back.

 

[Wingman77]

We resurrected his career once already, that's the irony of that quote. He was washed up in the AHL when we signed him.

This could not be further from the truth

He hadn't played in the AHL in 6 years prior to us bringing in him for a camp tryout, which was before he was even called up to the NHL for the first time

We offered him a camp tryout after he had just come off a season playing for Pete in Florida

We did not offer him a roster spot out of camp after giving forwards like Henrique, Josefson, and Tedenby opportunites to play in the lineup but we offered Bernier an AHL contract

He wound up breaking his hand and missing time with Albany, he came back rehabbed it and we called him up when he was good to go, something Lou said he would have liked to do months prior had he not broken his hand

 

[NJDevs26]

Right, he didn't get an NHL contract. He got a tryout contract and started in the AHL while we were playing luminaries like Cam and Eric Boulton (or whoever our early-season goon was). If he could have gotten an NHL contract he would have gotten one that offseason. The point stands, he was washed up with nowhere else to go when we brought him in.

 

[Wingman77]

Right, he didn't get an NHL contract. He got a tryout contract and started in the AHL while we were playing luminaries like Cam and Eric Boulton (or whoever our early-season goon was). If he could have gotten an NHL contract he would have gotten one that offseason. The point stands, he was washed up with nowhere else to go when we brought him in.

How was he going to go anywhere with a busted hand?

He would have been in the AHL for a week at most had he not broken his hand

Josefson went down with the injury, Tedenby struggled, Palmieri struggled, Mills became useless - that is why Boulton and Janssen were in the lineup consistently along with guys here and there like Zharkov, Pelley, Zalewski, Sestito because we had no other options at the time otherwise Bernier again would have been up far, far sooner