Confirmed Trade: [NJD/DAL] Colin Miller for 2025 5th round pick
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I think they are ultimately going to go in a different direction
serp
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He's not a John Marino. At best Miller is an incredibly mistake prone third pairing offensive defenseman.
He wasnt great, but as a 3rd pairing guy he’s solid for the price. There’s a reason he’s been a bit of a journeyman his entire career though. Could do way, way worse. Its a win/win with Dallas re-signing Hanley for a milliom less (who’s a better “defensive” D)
This is where I'm at. He's going to be on the third pair at 1.8 million. Meanwhile Erik Johnson just got over 3 for a year.
I don't need him to be great. Seems like a decent move to be what the devils need him to be
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I think this is a pretty good move by the Devils . We needed :
1. Veteran / experienced guy - check
2. RHD - check
3. Only signed for 1-2 years. Stop gap until Nemec is ready - check
4. Low cap hit - check
I’d say that is a good move . Hard to find someone that is all of what we were looking for . If course I’d prefer a Goudas / Soucy type D , but they went for double or more $$$ .
1. Veteran / experienced guy - check
2. RHD - check
3. Only signed for 1-2 years. Stop gap until Nemec is ready - check
4. Low cap hit - check
I’d say that is a good move . Hard to find someone that is all of what we were looking for . If course I’d prefer a Goudas / Soucy type D , but they went for double or more $$$ .
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He's a regular season guy who can take a shift. In the playoffs with the intensity turned up he's unplayable and can't complete a pass... like any pass at all.
All his stats can be disregarded because he was carted around by Heiskanen for half the year.
He will occaisionally put his head down and shoot as hard as he possibly can and the puck will bounce off 3 things and somehow go in so that's a positive.
Very nice work by Nill to get any asset at all and move on.
All his stats can be disregarded because he was carted around by Heiskanen for half the year.
He will occaisionally put his head down and shoot as hard as he possibly can and the puck will bounce off 3 things and somehow go in so that's a positive.
Very nice work by Nill to get any asset at all and move on.
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We had our bitter talks in the Timo trade thread, but first thing we agree on.
Good chance, Nemec is playing 3RD by then. Miller just has to get us to that bridge.
13th post on a Devils trade thread, my lord you're obsessed
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and guess what? Thats all we need him to be. We have Hamilton and Marino on the first 2 pairs on the right.
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Yeah, that's the concern. This gives some protection, so we don't have to force both Hughes and Nemec to the NHL if they don't look 100% ready. We've now got 8 defensemen:
LHD: Siegenthaler, Smith, Bahl, Hughes
RHD: Hamilton, Marino, Miller, Nemec
Maybe Hughes and Nemec will be in top-6 roles all season. Maybe not. But now we don't have no choice but to push them into those roles.
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They literally paid a 5th and have the cap space. Who cares how he was in the playoffs last year? It works out or it doesn't. It's not like he's stapled to their 1st pair.
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I just happy the Stars got rid of him and without having to add anything .
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He’s fine. Dallas’ defensive depth sucked and he along with others were asked to play above their station. If you have 4 dependable defensemen ahead of him on the roster you’ll be fine.
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Look we Stars fans really hated him and are glad he's gone but looking at what defenseman are getting paid on the market it seems like as UFA we would've gotten 3-4M per season for some reason
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Miller was worse. Much worse. Miller deserved his scratches in the playoffs. He was that bad.
And Suter handed the series over with a front net break out pass. Suter was horrible and cost them more games than any other single person.
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Colin Miller was healthy scratched in favor on Jani Hakanpää who could barely move ( and even healthy he is already slow ) with a f***ed up back and knee and it was well deserved
Hopefully Colin Miller will be healthy scratched in favor of Simon Nemec. At least he should be an upgrade over Brenden smith
