According to general manager Lou Lamoriello, the New Jersey Devils are not in the midst of a rebuild.
Lamoriello told the media on Friday, per Tom Gulitti at the Fire and Ice Blog, "It's a transition, not a rebuild. Rebuild means you're starting right from the foundation." He may be right. The Devils have a top goaltender and a talented young defense corps upon which they can build.
This year's trade deadline may be an important next step in this period of "transition." New Jersey has a number of players with little long-term value to the team that it may seek to sell, such as Jaromir Jagr, Michael Ryder and Marek Zidlicky.
If the Devils do make moves, one would think that they would aim to pick up goal scorers. New Jersey has struggled to score goals since Zach Parise and Ilya Kovalchuk left, and the team has few internal options to make up those lost goals.
So, most of the players on this list are offensive-minded forwards, as that is what the Devils need the most. We ranked the potential trade targets on both how much value they could bring to the team and how much it would cost New Jersey to acquire them.
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Ranking the Players the New Jersey Devils Should Covet at the Trade Deadline
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