[Friedman] Damon Severson and NJ are working on a sign and trade to Columbus. 8x$6.25M

47 comments

1. Farewell Sevo!!

2. Damn, in our own division 🙁

3. Saw some god awful seasons here so it sucks he couldn’t be here for the good times. Get that bag and god speed sevo

4. Severson is gonna look very weird in blue.

5. I don’t like that he’s being traded in division, but I’m just happy he’s getting his deal. Columbus seems like they’re really trying to take a swing this year. They better honor him when we plays in Jersey again.

6. Going to miss him. Happy he’s getting the bag he deserves it.

7. Happy for him that’s a lot of money. Good luck.

8. Division trades make me feel a certain way…

9. Too much money for the term. Maybe 6.25 x 4 years if you’re valuing him at that much yearly. I’d put him around maybe 4.75- 5mil. He will be 36 when this contact expires. Woof.

10. Take care Sevo! He deserved better while here but I like this deal for him. Good term, good pay (that we weren’t paying)

11. Damn. I wanted him to stay but take the payday bro. And the term! What a cash in good for him.

    Seriously happy for his time here. He stuck around during dark times.

12. Glad he’s looking to get a payday but my god he’s going from years of a terrible team to future years of a terrible team. Woof

13. Good for him. Would’ve loved to keep him but the writing was on the wall once we got Nemec and Marino last summer

14. who on earth will I scapegoat now? Farewell Sevo

15. If it’s in division, that probably means the return will be slightly better. This is pretty creative actually, instead of trading the rights Columbus gets their coveted free agent (probably best of this UFA class) and an extra year.

    So the question is: what does an extra year and guarantee UFA at an acceptable price cost?

16. [Looks like the Devils are getting Calgary’s 3rd round pick (80th overall) in this draft in return.](https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1667164661341454336?cxt=HHwWgIC81aXb-qIuAAAA)

    Columbus got the pick in a 3-team deal with Seattle and Calgary where Seattle got Oliver Bjorkstrand (from Columbus) and Calgary got Calle Jarnkrok (from Seattle) along with some other draft picks swapping hands between the three teams.

17. Love Sevo but 8 years is wild

18. The market was set last year when the Blues received a 3rd rounder for Husso. Not a bad set of business.

19. pretty pog

20. Sevo giving New Jersey a parting gift in a 3rd rounder on his way out while securing the bag. Glad he gets his payday after years of holding down the blueline on some terrible Devils teams.

21. Fitz you mad man. Getting a pick for a free agent and getting severson a nice payday. I think we’d all agree we wouldn’t sign him to this. God speed Damon gonna miss him.

22. Very happy with a 3rd coming back. Fitz making good trades as always

23. Another W for Fitzy

24. Good for Severson still getting his payday. I definitely don’t blame him. This is his only shot for a big payday.

    It sucks for him to be on a bottom dweller team again. Hopefully things turnaround quick for CBJ (but not at the expense of NJD).

25. Good bit of work to get something back for an expiring asset

26. Wow that happened fast

27. 8×6.25 is wild for Sevo. Sad to see him go, but it’s the right move.

28. Would prefer if he wasnt in division. Damn. Gonna miss Sevo.

29. Fucking legend. Explain to me again how Tom Fitzgerald wasn’t a finalist for the Gregory Award?

30. The GM who replaces Jarmo is going to have a hell of a job on his hands in a year or two

31. We get a third round pick for a guy that was a UFA within the month.

    Can’t be salty that it’s in the division because Damon was probably getting that contract from Columbus regardless.

    It’s bittersweet in a way. Glad that he got paid big time and is set up financially for life but on the other hand, he endured through the worst decade of Devils hockey perhaps, and just when it seems like this team will be good for a while, he won’t be here for it.

32. Read the headline fast and thought we locked him up ourselves. This makes more sense.

33. Looking at Columbus on CapFriendly, that’s a crowded right side. Now they have Gubranson, Peeke, Boqvist, AND Severson. It looks like Boqvist had some injury problems? But the other two played over 70 games each last year.

34. Getting a 3rd for a guy who was gone is an absolute steal.

35. Severson has been the only constant in this team since I started following the NHL again. If I could afford a jersey, it would have been his. Gonna miss him.

36. Wow, what a payday. I imagine heavily frontloaded. Sevo was a divisive figure in his time with the Devils but it’s sad he was with our team through some truly terrible years and now doesn’t get to reap the full rewards of the rebuild.

37. Also food for thought, a certain someone in Tampa named Ross Colton was a Devils fan growing up they can’t keep perhaps.

    This 3rd round pick could be more than enough to get him.

38. Always gonna be rooting for Sevo. Wish him nothing but the best

39. Columbus really is trying to get better. It was a disaster of a season last year they can’t repeat. They looked not only bad but incompetent in the games the Devils played them.

    However, it won’t matter for shit if they get horrific goaltending again.

40. I would never sign that knowing Babcock would be my future coach. Surprised Columbus wants that term and price

41. Damon got PAID!!! Good for you homie thanks for being a loyal player during the dark times. I appreciate you dude!!

42. God, poor Sevo is gonna have to deal with Babcock. Gonna miss the bastard, he went hard for us.

43. C.R.E.A.M get the money, dolla dolla bill ya’ll. Thanks for being with us during the lean years sevo, hate to see you go, but I’m sure you’ll be crying about it in your brand new pool haha

44. Good for Damon. I genuinely like him but I don’t overrate him the way most of the fans on here seem to. He’s a good defenseman who has some great tools and will make a great play one game or do some dumb shit and wreck 3-4 games a year. He gets his top 4 minutes (at least for the next couple years) and gets big $$, we get a pick we wouldn’t have gotten (likely early 3rd round) and Columbus gets an inconsistent wildcard of a player who will show up aces some nights and turds some others and with a contract will hamper their cap for the next 8 years.

45. I’m sad to see him go, but that bottom 6 is already crowded and we have a lot of guys trying to push their way into a permanent role.

    I’m really glad he’s cashing in. He deserves it, and he’s a hell of a soldier.

    Go get ’em, Sevo. Be a leader for Columbus.

46. Devils were never going to be able to swing $6.25M AAV. Severson was loyal for years. Happy he gets paid.

    Weird he didn’t just wait a month and hit the open market. Maybe the devils were able to get him better deal than an agent would be able to get him? Convinced CBJ to pay now rather than have the unknown of what the market will bear later?

47. Dudes this is the best possible news. Sevo is not an albatross in and of himself but between that contract and the other contracts they’re cobbling together that is one divisional rival we can cross off the list for the next decade right now!