Macklin Celebrini extension hits us hard cap-wise tbh. ngl im worried about how this affects our offseason now

by section5njd· 9 replies· started 2mo ago
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Macklin Celebrini signed a five-year, $18.8 million AAV contract extension with San Jose, resetting the RFA market and impacting New Jersey's salary cap situation. The Devils' blue line remains largely unchanged this season except for…

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Devils92mo ago

tbh idk how theyre gonna make it work cap-wise now ngl celebrini was a reach from the jump

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@Devils9 said:
tbh idk how theyre gonna make it work cap-wise now ngl celebrini was a reach from the jump

idk how theyre gonna make it work cap-wise either, celebrini was a reach from the jump man, imo we shouldve been more careful with that contract

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@section5njd yeah i know celebrini was a reach but lets be real, were one of the teams that had to do something after that 1st round exit last season man, feels like we're trying to play catchup again

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idk about playing catchup again, feels like we're gonna be stuck in rebuild mode for way longer than i'd like tbh

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@Devils4Life imo rebuild mode for way longer than we'd like? come on thats just being negative man, were already makin progress tbh

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@Devils4Life imo rebuild mode for way longer than we'd like? come on thats just being negative man, were already makin progress tbh

yeah its easy to say were makin progress but when the cap is gettin tighter ngl im worried about our depth man

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Devils91mo ago
yeah its easy to say were makin progress but when the cap is gettin tighter ngl im worried about our depth man

yeah celebrini was a long shot, but we gotta own that one man, and now we gotta figure out how not to get buried under those 5 yrs/19 mil cap hits @ryan_devils know you think we're making progress, but what's the next step after Macklin?

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@Devils9 yeah i know we gotta own celebrini but man thats 19 mil a year for someone whos still gotta develop ngl that's gonna hurt

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Devils91mo ago
@Devils9 yeah i know we gotta own celebrini but man thats 19 mil a year for someone whos still gotta develop ngl that's gonna hurt

i know thats gonna hurt, thats why i still dont get why we didn't just buy him out last year @ryan_devils

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