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The New Jersey Devils acquired proper wing Timo Meier from the San Jose Sharks on Sunday, giving the workforce a lift forward of the March 3 commerce deadline.
Listed below are the total particulars of the deal:
San Jose Sharks @SanJoseSharks
6:00pm – now we have formally made a commerce pic.twitter.com/m3DbRYmHeE
Frank Seravalli of the Day by day Faceoff reported particulars on the conditional first-round decide San Jose obtained within the commerce:
Frank Seravalli @frank_seravalli
Situation on 2024 1st Spherical Decide: #njdevils should attain East Conf Closing in 2023 or 2024, and Meier performs in 50% of video games in 2023, then it would turn into High 10 lottery protected 2024 1st spherical decide.
If these issues don’t occur, it turns into a 2024 2nd Spherical Decide. https://t.co/itAXbuu4TC
Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic initially reported the commerce.
LeBrun additionally reported {that a} contract extension between Meier and the Devils was not included within the deal, however the group nonetheless felt comfy in shifting ahead with the commerce.
Meier, 26, has been the topic of trade rumors for a number of weeks within the lead-up to the NHL commerce deadline on March 3. He’ll now transfer to New Jersey and convey one other dynamic to an already potent Devils offense.
An All-Star for the primary time in 2022, Meier is once more within the midst of one other strong marketing campaign in his seventh yr within the league. Meier is tied for 14th within the NHL with 31 objectives, the highest scorer for the Sharks this season.
Meiers’ 31 objectives is already second-best on New Jersey’s roster, trailing solely Jack Hughes’ 36. He additionally has 52 factors this yr, ranked simply outdoors the highest 50.
San Jose chosen Meier with the ninth general decide within the 2015 draft. He made his debut with the workforce through the 2016-17 season.
He performed the vast majority of his junior profession with the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Main Hockey League, scoring 160 factors over three years with the membership.
The Devils at present sit in second within the Metropolitan Division with 83 factors, simply three factors behind the main Carolina Hurricanes. They’ve the third-most factors in all the Japanese Convention and can hope that Meier is the piece that places them excessive.
