[Kevin Weekes] **Breaking News** 🚨 The @NJDevils are trading G Vanecek to @SanJoseSharks for G Kahkonen #HockeyX
**Breaking News** 🚨
The @NJDevils are trading G Vanecek to @SanJoseSharks for G Kahkonen #HockeyX pic.twitter.com/ks6AdlBwHZ— Kevin Weekes (@KevinWeekes) March 8, 2024
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Someone tell me how to feel
Wasn’t the cut off 3 pm?
Blackwood/Vanacek is a deadly goalie tandem.
Interesting. Kahkonen is a UFA after this year so essentially we’re dumping Vanecek’s 3.4M for next year to potentially go after something bigger in the offseason
Must be a favor from SJ for giving them that sweet deal for MBW
We’re going to speedrun every shitty goalie in the league until we find one who’s mildly unshitty.
Much better deal than the Jake Allen one
I genuinely have no idea how to feel anymore
Hopefully he finds a new hibachi joint in San Jose
Gets rid of VV’s contract, so 👍 move.
Kahkonen is a UFA after this year.
Huge W
So it’s gonna be Daws and Akira until Kahkonen joins and then Daws/Akira and Kahkonen until Allen has his visa sorted out which leads to Allen and Kahkonen to finish the year.
This is a smart move, you dump a huge contract and get a minor minor minor upgrade in net. More of this and less of the Allen move in the future.
Thank you for last year Vitek, but this is a really smart move. Don’t have to potentially buy out VV in the offseason now. Even if Kahkonen stinks, that’s not the point of the trade.
Cap dump move
lol stupid Rangers fans wanted them to pick this guy over Jack Hughes.
AND WE GOT HIM ANYWAY!
Wonder if this is going towards a bigger trade. I was a little interested in Kahkonen when the season started, but now I’m not so sure. He may just have bad numbers due to a shitty Sharks team, but it makes me a little nauseous if the game plan is to run him as backup with Allen to start
This is actually a really good move. It’s more about freeing up the money this offseason then anything else. Gets out of the bad goalie contract a year early. Plus Allen is only 50% next year so should be able to get the big starter in the offseason.
[Goalie for goalie swap – New Jersey Devils trade Vitek Vanacek and a 7th rounder to San Jose Sharks for Kappo Kahkonen. No retention involved. Somehow got the Sharks to eat 3.4M for a 7th rounder](https://x.com/JeffMarek/status/1766212197590368305?s=20)
So we’ll probably go with Kaapo and Allen for the rest of the season. Kaapo will walk and Allen will back up whoever we get as #1 in the summer. Allen is a cheaper backup than Vitek.
These trades aren’t sexy but very smart. Fitz saving $1.5m on his backup for next season.
Any Vitek trade is a W.
If there was no “goalie of the future” to be had at this deadline, paying a third and Vitek for next year’s backup and 3 million more in cap space feels like a pretty pretty good consolation prize heading into a summer where there should be some good goalies up for grabs
KAHK AND BAHL!
Gonna miss Vitek, such a likable player. I’m sad it didn’t work out and had to end this way. I’ll miss the Vitek chants after big saves, that always got me so pumped up to hear those.
Okay so this is an audition for Kahkonen to be the primary that people have been saying he deserves and allows Allen to be our backup for next year allowing Schmid/Daws to cook in the AHL next year while we go get a big goalie in the offseason.
I’m okay with this now.
But holy shit this has been whiplash today.
If we let him walk in the summer and revisit the goalie market then for a true starter, then great trade. Especially since it gets us out from under Vitek’s contract. If this is meant to be the guy… less great…
San Jose, a Devils goalie elephant graveyard
This means the Allen move allows schmid and daws to go back to the ahl
Sad honks. Bummer VV couldn’t regain his footing. A really fun year last year followed by a train wreck.
Farewell Hibachi King
Wish VV had worked out better. Enjoy The Bay 🫡