Ferris said he and Chayka are taking the same approach to the remainder of the regular season, and what the Coyotes hope will be a postseason run.
“John and I talked at length (Monday) night and it’s a fair assessment of the situation that they want to let him get in and let him get settled and see how it goes,” Ferris said. “Players have earned rights and they work hard to get to a certain point in their career and that’s probably one of the reasons (Devils GM) Ray (Shero) put him up for trade. He didn’t want to risk the possibility that he can’t sign him. He figured, ‘OK, well, my team’s going nowhere so I might as well do this trade. It would be a worse thing if the team didn’t make playoffs and they lost Hallsy in free agency.
“So now there’s a possibility for Arizona, and yes, it’s absolutely a possibility. It gives Arizona an opportunity that it probably would not have been afforded for him to consider in the future because you just don’t know where the mindset would be at the end of the year. Now you get a chance to have him in there, have him get an idea of what it’s like to be in Arizona, and I have the feeling with the way Hallsy approaches things that he will really like Arizona and the lifestyle there. He is going to see that, ‘This might be a place where I can play for a while."