First Blog post

Hello everybody this is my first blog post. I am a passionate Devils fan with some great ideas for the team and I would like to get some support for my ideas.

1) First we should attempt to trade Colin White and Brian Rolston. Both players are getting older and have been of very little help this season. I believe that we should attempt to trade for a 3rd, 4rth, or 5th round pick for these players. The cap room the Devils would gain would allow for the Devils to not only resign Ilya Kovalchuk and Paul Martin, but enough to resign players for the future, such as Zach Parise (who, by the way, is my favorite current Devil), Travis Zajac, David Clarkson, and other budding Devils stars.

2) The Boston Bruins have been rumored to be in interest of trading the number 2 pick overall in this years draft for Jarome Iginla. I believe the Devils have a player who is the equivalent of Iginla and can entice the Bruins to consider a trade: Patrik Elias. I personally have loved Elias for as long as I have watched him, but his production is going down and the team needs to get younger. I believe a trade involving Elias, Matt Corrente, next years first round pick, the picks we get for White and Rolston, and the second this year for the number two pick. The Devils will clear up cap space and add a superstar in either Taylor Hall or Tyler Seguin. This trade might be a bit of a future pick, but this trade could allow the Devils to gain a player that would be able to have an immediate impact and possibly as big as Elias has this year.

3) In a worst case scenario, we are not able to sign Ilya to a deal. There is still hope. Last year, Florida traded Jay Bouwmeester to Calgary for Jordan Leopold. Both of these players were unable to reach deals with their respective teams. In Anaheim, the Ducks are having trouble signing their young superstar Bobby Ryan. If we are unable to resign Ilya, I believe the Devils should trade his rights to Anaheim, who might be able to afford him (especially if Niedermayer and Selanne retire, for Bobby Ryan and the first round pick the Ducks received from Philadelphia for this year's draft. Bobby Ryan, a New Jersey native, might agree to a cheap contract of 3 or 4 million for his services because of his connection to New Jersey. If not, the Devils gain a first round pick for pretty much nothing.

These are my trade ideas.

For free agency, the Devils should look to resign Kovy and Martin, but if worse comes to worse Martin should be let go. His impact on the Devils is minimal he doesnt have the shot to be a great offensive defenseman. The Devils need to build around players like Greene and Salmela for defense.

The Devils need to add another offensive defenseman with a hard shot from the point. Perhaps the Devils can lure Scott Niedermayer back to Jersey (unlikely considering the Devils lack of cap space). Outside of that, I really don't see that much talent in this years free agents in terms of offensive defensmen.

Thanks for reading and please help support my ideas!