Is Lou Lamorstatusquo done making moves?

I don’t think Lou’s done, and I don’t think he’ll wait for training camp. Right now it’s a seller’s market, as teams still have cap space open, and floor teams still need a lot of salary to reach the salary floor. By training camp, a lot of that will have dried up. I think he’ll make a move in the next few days.

Looking at your roster, where are the two rookie Adams? I think Henrique and Larsson will make the team. For sure Henrique will, he wont be blocked by Zharkov or Pelley.

Also, I doubt Parise gets a $6.6M cap hit this year. An arbitrator is going to give Parise a 32% increase in salary coming off an injury?

And why is Clarkson playing LW?

i think Matthew Taormina should be a regular in our lineup, in the beginning of the year he stood out to me even though he was a rookie and the rest of the team was slumping. So we need to get rid of Salvador, fraser, and corrente

making moves. why does he need to make moves at this point other than to try to fit Larsson into the lineup? Even if Lou does nothing now and just leaves the roster the way it is, you know someone on defense is going to get hurt and will probably be placed on IR so Larsson can come up to the line up then.

If this is a sellers’ market then who is going to want some of the bad contracts here when they can get bigger contract for a higher quality player some place else? Some of the teams that have yet to reach the floor can take a contract off of a team that is looking to sign a RFA from another team. IE Stamkos to Philly. The talent in Philly with the amount of big contracts are bountiful there so any team looking to reach the floor is not going to be looking to the Devils to fill cap space. They will look for better talent else where. Lets be honest, Brian Rolston isn’t attracting teams that need to reach the floor.

Being a GM doesn’t mean looking at the present season its about looking to the future. If you look at next season the Devils will have 28 million in cap space. So lets say that Parise signs a one year deal for 6.6 million this year, Lou can offer him even more money (if this season’s performance warrants it) and sign him long term and we can be looking at the Parise-Kovalchuk for the next few years. So the changes aren’t now they are next season.

So in summary Lou doesn’t need to make moves. He just needs to sign Parise for a good amount this year to a one year through arbitration and then face lift the team next year when some of the bad contracts expire and the Devils can then focus more on the youth movement and sign maybe a big name defenseman next year. Then when Parise’s contract expires you sign him long term for more money and let him captain this ship.

I see Lou trading some of the prospect Dmen for a couple of quality prospects at forward that aren’t NHL-ready yet. The glut of Dmen has been well-documented on this site, but I think the farm team has a real dearth of scoring forwards that needs to be addressed. Henrique is the only real prospect among Albany’s forwards that has an NHL future. McIntyre was traded for Noreau and Vasyunov is headed to the KHL. Mills, Sestito, and Wiseman don’t look like they’re coming back as they’re all UFAs.

So all that’s left is Henrique and a bunch of likely career AHLers like Steve Zalewski, Matt Anderson, Stephen Gionta, Nathan Perkovich and PL3 and some prospects who have a ways to go to make the big show in Mike Hoeffel, Mike Sislo, Kory Nagy, and JS Berube. I don’t think they even have enough forwards signed to fill out the roster, much less quality players to keep the team competitive. Perhaps they’ll convert Corrente to wing, but Albany needs scoring badly.