{"id":501296,"date":"2026-03-13T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/501296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:27:14","slug":"ditd-open-post-3-13-26-a-trying-season-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/501296\/","title":{"rendered":"DitD &#038; Open Post &#8211; 3\/13\/26: A Trying Season Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are your links for today:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Devils Kevin Bahl and Yegor Sharangovich scored for the Flames Thursday as Calgary took a 5-4 win. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/devils\/news\/topic\/game-day\/njd-vs-cgy\/03-12-2026\/2025021032\/game-story-2025021032\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devils NHL<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a trying season for the New Jersey Devils. Much of it is general manager Tom Fitzgerald\u2019s fault for not assembling a strong enough roster. Sheldon Keefe deserves some blame as well, though it does appear he\u2019s changed how the team plays since the Olympic break. That\u2019s left the Devils in a position where their final 18 games don\u2019t have significant meaning since they\u2019re highly unlikely to make the playoffs. Still, there are a few things I\u2019d like to see to build momentum heading into the offseason and the 2026-27 campaign.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/devilsontherush.substack.com\/p\/things-want-see-devils-post-trade-deadline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devils on the Rush<\/a> ($)]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Radko Gudas gets ejected:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Nick Schmaltz gets an eight-year deal:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYes, it required a double-take. After Nick Schmaltz removed himself from the already thin July 1 free-agent market with his contract extension with the Utah Mammoth on Wednesday, I glanced at the remaining pending UFA class. As of Thursday morning, your leading point-getter among pending UFA players was \u2026 drumroll \u2026 Darren Raddysh!\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7112544\/2026\/03\/12\/nhl-contract-extensions-free-agency-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic<\/a> ($)]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIn a surprising reversal, the NHL has decided the Ottawa Senators will no longer forfeit a first-round draft pick for their role in the canceled 2022 trade between Vegas and Anaheim involving winger Evgenii Dadonov. Rather than giving up their first-round pick in June\u2019s NHL draft, the Senators will select last (32nd overall) in the round and pay a $1 million fine in Canadian dollars, the league announced Thursday. That money will go to the NHL Foundation Canada, a league-sponsored charitable organization.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48184624\/nhl-make-senators-forfeit-1st-round-pick-nixed-22-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A look around the league at the draft capital situation following the trade deadline: [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/which-teams-hold-the-most-draft-picks-after-2026-nhl-trade-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cO\u2019Reilly, Benn, Reaves and Bogosian bring the NHL\u2019s visor-less population to 0.46 percent of current skaters. That number stood at 32 percent of players during the 2011-12 season and 27 percent in February 2013, according to numbers provided by the NHL Players\u2019 Association at the time.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7108800\/2026\/03\/12\/nhl-players-visor-holdouts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic<\/a> ($)]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Feel free to discuss these and any other hockey-related stories in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are your links for today: Former Devils Kevin Bahl and Yegor Sharangovich scored for the Flames Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,26250,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-501296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-devils-in-the-details","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-jersey-devils","13":"tag-newjersey","14":"tag-newjerseydevils","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116222102651580500","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}