New Jersey Devils interim head coach Travis Green began Monday night’s postgame press conference explaining that although this season was a disappointing one, the future remains bring.
The New Jersey Devils announced on Tuesday morning that goaltender Akira Schmid has been recalled from the American Hockey League. The Devils found themselves in need of a goaltender, likely as a result of an injury to goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen on Sunday against the Nashville Predators.
A look at the 2024 offseason market for goaltenders.
Before puck drop on Sunday night, New Jersey Devils interim head coach Travis Green described Curtis Lazar’s health status as, “Not great.” Green continued by explaining that Lazar has an upper-body injury that could keep him out of the remaining four games of the regular season.
ELMONT — Interim head coach Travis Green did not like the New Jersey Devils’ effort on Saturday night against the Ottawa Senators at all. The Devils flipped the script on Sunday afternoon on Long Island, however, dominating the New York Islanders at UBS Arena.
Jack Hughes collected a goal and an assist in his 300th regular-season game, Kaapo Kahkonen made 37 saves to snap a personal 11-game losing streak and the New Jersey Devils scored three times in the second period of a 4-0 victory over the New York Islanders on Sunday in Elmont, N.Y.
The New Jersey Devils’ goaltending situation has been a catastrophe, with their .892 save percentage (SV%) ranking second-worst in the league. In the final hours leading up to the trade deadline, they dealt a struggling Vitek Vanecek to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for pending unrestricted free agent (UFA), Kaapo Kahkonen.
Mackenzie Blackwood didn’t want to see Kaapo Kahkonen leave. “I loved Kaapo as a partner and a teammate, a good friend of mine,” Blackwood told San Jose Hockey Now in Philadelphia.
It’s no secret that the New Jersey Devils have been nothing but a disappointment this season. This simply looks like a completely different team than the one we watched last year. During the 2022-23 season, the Devils arguably played with more swagger than any other team in the NHL.
The 2024 Trade Deadline has now come and gone. The biggest trade was likely the unexpected Tomas Hertl trade to the Vegas Golden Knights. One trade that wasn’t as talked about, but was surprising, was the New Jersey Devils’ goaltender swap.
On March 8, the San Jose Sharks dealt goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen to the New Jersey Devils in a one-for-one goalie swap to acquire Vitek Vanecek. It’s no secret that New Jersey has been struggling with goaltending all season long, so they went out and got another one on top of Jake Allen.
The New Jersey Devils acquired goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Vitek Vanecek and our 2025 7th-round Draft Pick. The deal took place on Friday and rolled in as part of a last-second trade call after the NHL Trade deadline came to a close.
A goalie-for-goalie transaction happened near the NHL Trade Deadline. The New Jersey Devils have acquired netminder Kaapo Kähkönen from the San Jose Sharks.
The New Jersey Devils and the San Jose Sharks have made a swap of goalies. San Jose and New Jersey have made the Kaapo Kahkonen and Vitek Vanecek trade happen.
The San Jose Sharks and New Jersey Devils have completed a goalie swap.
The San Jose Sharks visit the Minnesota Wild at Xcel Energy Center. Ex-Wild Mikael Granlund and Nico Sturm and Anthony Duclair scored, but the Sharks lost a hard-fought 4-3 game.
Going into his first Trade Deadline as a pending UFA, Kaapo Kahkonen already had a taste of what this time of year can bring. Shortly after the Minnesota Wild acquired Marc-Andre Fleury at the 2022 Deadline, they sent him to the San Jose Sharks while he was a pending RFA.
The San Jose Sharks showed good fortitude on Saturday night (Feb. 24) against the Nashville Predators, but ultimately fell short in a 4-2 loss. They stayed competitive the whole way and had some strong sequences, but got outplayed for too much of the contest and took their third straight defeat.
The San Jose Sharks visit the Winnipeg Jets in their first game in two weeks. The Sharks got shut out 1-0 by the Jets, wasting a 39-save Kaapo Kahkonen masterpiece.
Kaapo Kahkonen made 43 saves and stopped both attempts in the shootout to help the visiting San Jose Sharks earn a 4-3 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night.
Kaapo Kahkonen knows all too well about dealing with the Trade Deadline. After all, it was a deadline day trade from the Minnesota Wild which brought him to the San Jose Sharks in the first place in 2022.
In an article from Sheng Peng of San Jose Hockey Now, he passes along a note from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, who claims that the Sharks are receiving trade interest in Kaapo Kahkonen.
The San Jose Sharks have a few days before any decisions for the opening night roster need to be finalized. Based on what we’ve seen so far though, it seems obvious that Kaapo Kahkonen deserves to be the starting goaltender on Oct.
The goaltending carousel nearly spun off its axis this offseason as NHL teams jockeyed to improve in the crease.
The San Jose Sharks re-signed goalie Kaapo Kahkonen to a two-year contract on Monday. The details of the deal were not released, but multiple media outlets reported the contract to have an average annual value of $2.75 million.
Kahkonen, 25, posted a 14–14–4 record and a .912 save percentage in 36 games split between the Sharks and the Minnesota Wild in 2021–22.
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