Claimed off Waivers: [NJD] Devils claim D Nick DeSimone off waivers from the Flames

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[DJJones]

Didn't see that coming

 

[Vitto79]

Didn't see that coming

They’ve got alot of D hurt

 

[Zippy316]

Devils have been hit by an insane rash of injuries on defense.

Hamilton is out for the season (or close to it)
Siegenthaler broke his foot and is out for another few weeks.
Smith is out for a few weeks with a sprained knee.


That’s on top of losing Graves and Severson this past off-season. Currently trotting out a D core with three rookies, one sophomore, Marino, and Miller:

Bahl - Nemec
Hughes - Marino
Hatakka - Miller

The last two NHL contracts behind them are either career AHLers (Wotherspoon, Vukojevic) or developing rookie pro defenders (Misyul, Vilen). This makes some sense if only to have a warm body as an extra defender until we get healthy.

 

[Devils Trap]

We are down to Hatakka, Daniel Misyul playing minutes for us.

We needed a body lol

 

[WarriorofTime]

Good for DeSimone to get put on Waivers right as there was a team that just needed a body and probably would have claimed whomever the next D that knows what an NHL arena looks like to hit the wire was.

This guy cleared waivers 4 times previously.

 

[Chainshot]

Good for DeSimone to get put on Waivers right as there was a team that just needed a body and probably would have claimed whomever the next D that knows what an NHL arena looks like to hit the wire was.

Sometimes it happens that way. It also wouldn't surprise me if he's back with the Flames AHL club in a couple weeks when the Devils start to get bodies back.

 

[super6646]

He's better than Jordan f***ing Oesterle

 

[FLAMESFAN]

Sometimes it happens that way. It also wouldn't surprise me if he's back with the Flames AHL club in a couple weeks when the Devils start to get bodies back.

Would appreaciate that - wins for everyone!

 

[WarriorofTime]

Sometimes it happens that way. It also wouldn't surprise me if he's back with the Flames AHL club in a couple weeks when the Devils start to get bodies back.

$775K/$325K 2-way contract, so any additional NHL service time results in a not insubstantial amount more coin in his pocket.

 

[tmg]

Good for DeSimone to get put on Waivers right as there was a team that just needed a body and probably would have claimed whomever the next D that knows what an NHL arena looks like to hit the wire was.

* and had a buryable salary. The Devils wouldn’t have grabbed such a warm body if there was any relevant cap implication. They needed a warm body whose nhl cap hit drops to 0 if and when he gets sent to the minors.

 

[HBK27]

* and had a buryable salary. The Devils wouldn’t have grabbed such a warm body if there was any relevant cap implication. They needed a warm body whose nhl cap hit drops to 0 if and when he gets sent to the minors.

If he gets sent to the minors there's almost a 100% chance that at least Calgary puts in a claim.

No chance the Devils could bury him in their farm system this season.

 

[Bounces R Way]

He should make alright injury filler, better in the OZ than the DZ so maybe that can work better with the Devils than it did here.

I would rather have him than Oesterle in the lineup that's for sure.

 

[Mike Jones]

Surprised the Flames couldn't even get a pick for him - even if it was only a 7th.

 

[Nemec]

Surprised the Flames couldn't even get a pick for him - even if it was only a 7th.

Or even a bag of pucks

 

[Mike Jones]

Or even a bag of pucks

Trades are cheaper than waivers so yes, that would be better for both parties.

 

[DJJones]

If he gets sent to the minors there's almost a 100% chance that at least Calgary puts in a claim.

No chance the Devils could bury him in their farm system this season.

I mean, Calgary wants him on the Wranglers too. Kylington is coming back and Poirier will leap frog him too.

Plus we'll probably get a cap dump at the deadline.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Trades are cheaper than waivers so yes, that would be better for both parties.

Not exactly. If CGY trades him for future considerations and NJD puts him back on waivers, if nobody makes a claim to put him on the NHL, he goes to the Devils AHL affiliate. If CGY doesn’t trade him and the Devils put him back in waivers, then if CGY puts in a claim and nobody else makes a claim, he’d go automatically to CGY’s AHL affiliate.

So a trade for nothing is a greater “cutting the bait” than putting a player through waivers even if you knew somebody would claim him.

This could be relevant for the Hawks who recently picked up Jayson Megna and Zach Sanford off waivers and traded a conditional seventh for Rem Pitlick. As players get healthy, they may consider putting a guy or two from there back on waivers. Pittsburgh would have no special right to make a waiver claim for Pitlick just to send him back to Wilkes-Barre.

 

[AfroThunder396]

New Jersey's defense as of today:

Miller - 491 career GP (nagging injury)
Marino - 298 career GP
Bahl - 111 career GP
Hughes - 47 career GP
DeSimone - 27 career GP
Nemec - 24 career GP
Satakka - 10 career GP
Misyul - 0 career GP

Hamilton - injured
Siegenthaler - injured
Smith - injured

 

[Double Dion]

He's better than Jordan f***ing Oesterle

THIS. Why did we waive the better guy? I'm not saying it's the end of the world losing DeSimone, but wouldn't it have been better to lose Oesterle?

He have 5 top 4 NHL defensemen. Hanifin, Tanev, Andersson, Weegar and Kylington. We have a average 7 in Gilbert. Then our next best guy has been DeSimone. He's not an NHLer, but if you're moving Tanev and Hanifin shouldn't you be hanging onto DeSimone?

 

[Mike Jones]

Not exactly. If CGY trades him for future considerations and NJD puts him back on waivers, if nobody makes a claim to put him on the NHL, he goes to the Devils AHL affiliate. If CGY doesn’t trade him and the Devils put him back in waivers, then if CGY puts in a claim and nobody else makes a claim, he’d go automatically to CGY’s AHL affiliate.

So a trade for nothing is a greater “cutting the bait” than putting a player through waivers even if you knew somebody would claim him.

This could be relevant for the Hawks who recently picked up Jayson Megna and Zach Sanford off waivers and traded a conditional seventh for Rem Pitlick. As players get healthy, they may consider putting a guy or two from there back on waivers. Pittsburgh would have no special right to make a waiver claim for Pitlick just to send him back to Wilkes-Barre.

Good to know - thanks. I thought it was just a general principle that trades cost less than waivers.

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

Jeez, Flames shedding bodies

 

[herashak]

I think the last NHL ice he saw was vs. Matthews and that wasn’t pretty.

 

[uncleben]

For those interested, this cost New Jersey $15,000, paid to Calgary and not counted against the cap.



Season total: $761,250
21 claims

 

[Zirakzigil]

Guy who worked his butt off to make it into the NHL. Has a never give up attitude. Hes earned the chance to be at least NHL depth. Cant see the Flames happy they lost him.