{"id":436265,"date":"2024-03-08T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=436265"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:58:12","slug":"jake-allen-traded-to-new-jersey-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/03\/08\/jake-allen-traded-to-new-jersey-devils\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Allen Traded To New Jersey Devils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canadiens\/\" target=\"_self\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> moved veteran netminder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/allenja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Allen<\/a> today. He is off to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/03\/08\/new-jersey-devils-trade-winger-at-the-deadline\/\" target=\"_self\">New Jersey Devils<\/a> in return for a conditional third-round pick. Montreal also retains half of Allen&#8217;s salary for this year and next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jake Allen is heading to New Jersey, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FriedgeHNIC<\/a>. \ud83d\udd01<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLTradeDeadline?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLTradeDeadline<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bet365ca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@bet365ca<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rt5RWcDkCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/rt5RWcDkCJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1766174993899978853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/allenja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jake Allen<\/a> Joins the Devils<\/h2>\n<p>The team has carried three goaltenders for the bulk of the season, not wanting to risk losing any of them. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/montesa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Montembeault<\/a> getting a new three-year deal in December and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/primeca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cayden Primeau<\/a> being their own draft pick, that left Allen on the outside. He was likely the more appealing in any case, being a veteran with 29 Stanley Cup playoff games experience.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Allen was traded to Montreal in 2020 for two seventh-round draft picks. He then signed for two years as a free agent, mostly in tandem with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/priceca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-01-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carey Price<\/a> or Montembeault. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/canadiens-sign-goalie-jake-allen-to-2-year-7-7m-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extension<\/a> followed this past offseason, but the Canadiens have decided to go with younger hands. They&#8217;ve worked around his seven-team no-trade list to get this deal done.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has played in 21 games this season, with a .892 save percentage and 3.65 goals against average. He has one more season at $3.85 million remaining on his deal, making him likely to stay another year with the devils<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>With Montreal out of the playoff run, they recaptured what they could in trading their veteran. For Jake Allen, he&#8217;s going to a team that wants the security of a goaltender who has filled a backup role for the past few years. With his current contract, the odds are good that he&#8217;ll stay at his new location for another year. But for now, he&#8217;s a fall-back plan for their expected playoff run.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey now has a veteran goalie on the roster. This can give <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dawsni01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nico Daws<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/schmiak01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Akira Schmid<\/a> a chance to fix themselves down in Utica of AHL.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: David Kirouac-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens moved veteran netminder Jake Allen today. He is off to the New Jersey Devils in return for a conditional third-round pick. Montreal also retains half of Allen&#8217;s salary for this year and next year. Jake Allen is heading to New Jersey, per @FriedgeHNIC. \ud83d\udd01#NHLTradeDeadline | @bet365ca pic.twitter.com\/rt5RWcDkCJ &mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) March 8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3171,"featured_media":436412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4547,7,13,4548],"tags":[250],"class_list":["post-436265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-canadiens","category-devils","category-nhl","tag-jake-allen"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}