On Thursday, the New Jersey Devils traded pending free agent Jaromir Jagr. The trade of Jagr, whose name has been a staple in the rumour mill for months now, is not a surprise. His destination is.
It’s not like Florida Panthers got Jagr for a song either. Tom Gulitti, who covers the Devils for The Record, reports that in exchange for Jagr’s services New Jersey will land a second-round pick and a conditional third-round selection—the Panthers had two third-round picks, and the Devils get the better one.
One reason this is surprising is that Florida isn’t presently in the playoffs. As of this writing, the club sits two points back of the Boston Bruins for the final wild-card slot in the East. It’s been debated whether the Panthers were really planning to be buyers at the deadline; this is a team with a pretty young core overall, and further, it is a team that has shown a willingness to move out its own free agents:
If we consider these two trades as one larger deal from the Panthers’ perspective, it’s the equivalent of moving down from the second round to th ...
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