New Jersey Devils trade deadline review

The Devils made a handful of moves that, in a vacuum, made sense. As a whole? Not as much.

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The New Jersey Devils were active leading up to the trade deadline but went with a quantity-over-quality approach, spraying the board with a bevvy of transactions.

Let’s go through the new faces and my overall thoughts on how Tom Fitzgerald handled things.

On Cody Glass

Glass is a competent NHL center, which the Devils were in desperate need of. Erik Haula started Friday as the team’s 2nd leading point producer among healthy centers. He has 11 points this season and hasn’t recorded one (1) since November 25th.

While Glass isn’t someone who will light up the scoresheet, he is more productive – and a much better play-driver – than all of the depth centers the Devils were trotting out behind Nico Hischier each night.

Glass has some tools, he generates chances efficiently, and he’s shooting 3.6% below his career average, so there is reason to believe there could be a little more meat on the bone offensively.

Is he going to move the needle for the Devils? Not really. But he’s a depth upgrade in the here and now and he’s a restricted free agent this summer, meaning he’s under team control. No problems here.

On Daniel Sprong