It’s been a mostly boring offseason for the New Jersey Devils. While other teams were making trades and signing big-name free agents, the Devils sat back and decided to hold on to their cap space. General Manager Ray Shero has said in the past that cap space may be the biggest asset a team can have.
We’ve seen teams use that asset to bail out other teams. The Arizona Coyotes currently have Dave Bolland and Marian Hossa‘s contracts on the books, despite their inability to take the ice. In the past, they’ve technically employed Chris Pronger and Pavel Datsyuk, despite the fact they never took a faceoff in the desert.