Devils obtain Tsyplakov for Palat

  While watching the New Jersey Devils 4-3 loss against the Winnipeg Jets (I haven't seen many games and written about what I have watched), the Devils announced a trade that will help the team under the salary cap next season.

New Jersey sent veteran winger Ondrej Palat, with 2026 third, and 2027 seventh-round picks, to the New York Islanders for right winger Maxim Tsyplakov.

Maxim Tsyplakov is twenty-seven years old and is in his second season in the NHL after playing several years in Russia's KHL.

Tsyplakov scored ten goals with twenty-five assists for the Islanders last season, but has scored just one goal with one assist in twenty-seven games this season.

Ondrej Palat was in his fourth season with the Devils after the team signed him as a free agent from Tampa Bay in 2022.

Palat scored four goals and six assists in fifty-one games for New Jersey this season, and with the trade, the Devils will save six million dollars on next season's salary cap.

The savings on the cap are why the Devils had to add the draft picks to make the deal, as Tsyplakov will be under contract for next season at a more palatable 2.25 million.