The Devils needed skill, and they managed to find it outside of the draft.
General manger Ray Shero traded the team’s third-round pick (No. 77 overall) in Saturday’s NHL Entry Draft to the Penguins for restricted free agent forward Beau Bennett. The 24-year-old winger played one postseason game with the Penguins as they went on their run to the Stanley Cup victory this past postseason, and he holds arbitration rights on his upcoming negotiation.
The draft pick Shero traded originally was acquired from Detroit in the Marek Zidlicky trade, which the Red Wings used to select Connor Hall in this year’s draft.