In this NHL Draft recap, Will Scouch breaks down the crop of prospects the New Jersey Devils added in 2024 NHL Draft.
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Silayev-Casey seems like a perfect fit together as the 2nd pair for future behind a Luke-Nemec top pair. They pretty perfectly cover for each others weaknesses. That’s a top 4 that can run over the league for a decade all through all their primes and you never have to worry
NJ Devils fans who understand how this team was constructed are aware that on draft day, we had a team of talented short track speed skaters who, with a few exceptions, lack physicality. Silayev represents something this team doesn't have but desperately needs. With Yegorov, you can never have enough goalies. Fitzgerald has to believe there is a starter in the pipeline, whether it's Yegorov, Daws, Poulter, Malek, Brennan…etc. Pikkarainen & Traff are 2 players where you can see Fitzgerald attempting to change the identity of the team into a hybrid Smash & Rush. Just look at his trades & FA adds this offseason. The rest of those picks are a crap shoot.
The devils ahl team did suck last year so maybe thats why we got the kelowa over ager dude. We never seem to sign enough ahl vets to help develop prospects that are down there.
I did some digging on the Max Graham pick and the best I can figure is that they picked him because he led the WHL in penalty minutes. Graham is a willing combatant who will jump in to protect teammates but also stirs it up with a bit of an agitator edge to him. I don't know that they needed to spend the pick on him, but Graham definitely brings some snarl with his game and that seems like something they're looking for more of.