We have actually deployed him as a shutdown defender even though in his career he's been always used as an OFD looking at underlying stats. With that said, his offensive stats have only taken a 3-5% dip even though he went from a 50% offensive zone start, to 31%. His offensive metrics are all around 48-50% still. Personally I'd be looking for a potential top 4 RHD or a late 1st in terms of value. He's been decent for us and its not like we need to move him. Just my personal preference as he's one of the only players we have with with positive value over the age of 26. We also have way too many LHD and could use the cap space. I know you guys have Smith and Butcher on the left side so it may be too pricey, but he does play the right side. Probably has played the right side more than the left in his career, so if you dont have an abundance of LHD, you could swap him back and forth on either side depending on injuries/depth. Canucks have 5-6 LHD so it'd be nice to recoup some assets, free up cap space, and sign a cheap RHD like Hamonic or Schenn to play with Hughes and just live with Myers in our top 4 given our cap issues. That way we have 4-5 LHD (Hughes/Tryamkin/Juolevi/Rathbone and Edler if brought back) and Rathbone can just over marinate in the AHL while we give Tryamkin a chance at the NHL.
Right where else are you going to get a top 4 D signed to a market value contract (pre-covid) maybe overpaid by 500k-1M max in a covid market (brodie got 5M, Krug got 6.5M) for a 4th? just because Columbus gave one that spends more time on IR than playing to you guys for a 5th doesn't mean others come that cheap too. Would you trade Severson for a 4th?
Murray only missed time due to Covid. He hasnt been injured at all this season.
Prior to the trade Murray had missed more games than played in his career. How does what he’s done post trade affect what I said as to why Columbus traded him?
No. We will give you the Islanders 1st for Brock Boeser. You get the late 1st that you want and you keep Schmidt. Win-win.
Instead of derailing this thread, I’m actually just going to ignore you as you’ve made it clear you’re evaluation on players if way off base and you’ve shown you aren’t willing to explain or discuss how you came to your evaluations. That just ends any chance at any conversation that could be had.
My evaluations are way off base?
With a big contract as well, i don’t want him with that contract at all even for free. If they retained 50% I’d talk about giving them a 3rd or maybe even 2nd at most. I haven’t followed him at all lately and don’t really know how he’s been doing.
This is a stupid thing to say. Severson is younger, cheaper and better than him. Schmidt’s contract is not market value and there’s no chance of getting a first for him with that contract. It’s not a good contract thats likely to get worse as he probably declines going into his 30s. If you retained 50% or atleast a decent chunk you could talk to the right team about it. We aren’t that team it really wouldn’t make sense for us with where we are and what Fitz is trying to do.
As an FYI. Fitz has been clear that he is not willing to acquire a 30 something with longer deal that could turn bad when the Devils are hopefully contending in a couple of years. He was discussing wings last offseason but I would think the same would apply to an older D. Would Schmidt make the Devils better next year - yes. Would I have any interest in acquiring him - no. He should go to a team that is looking to contend in 21-22 IMO.
Murray with 1 year left is a lot different situation than Schmidt with 4. Cap space is an assert despite what some Devils HFB posters think.
Schmidt is overpaid, aging and frankly not good enough to warrant any sort of return when a cap strapped team is trying to ship him out. If you think he is returning anything of value your either delusional or overly optimistic that some team gets absolutely fleeced.
Is Benning even looking to trade Schmidt? Is he really the type to guy to just have Hughes and kids lock down that side? (I feel like he wouldn’t but I’m not sure about that, particularly since the cap space is getting so tight.)
