Let’s award the New Jersey
Devils an early offseason thumbs up for the
Ryan Graves acquisition Thursday night.
The Devils entered the final stretch before the expansion draft with two rather notable assets: Ample salary cap room and the ability to add depending on the fit without overly complicating their protection issues.
It put them in a decent spot to scrounge around and see if a team was ready to do business with them instead of going the side-deal route with Seattle.
Enter the Colorado Avalanche. The Avs were wrestling internally with whether to protect
