10 Most Impactful Trades In New Jersey Devils History
By Nick Villano
10. Bryce Salvador from Blues to Devils for Cam Janssen
Listen, Cam Janssen is a really fun player to root for, and he’s an awesome follow on Twitter, but he brings a very specific form of hockey on the ice, and it’s similar to that of Kurtis Gabriel. At that point, he played close to 100 games with the New Jersey Devils and had one goal to his credit. He wasn’t there to score goals, but the NHL would soon be a league that passed him by.
In return, the Devils received defenseman Bryce Salvador. He spent the next six and a half seasons in the red and black, taking them to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2012, and taking over as captain when Zach Parise left in free agency. He took on the role when the Devils were in a bad way. It was probably one of the darkest times in Devils history, but he was still an important figure for the Devils.
This is why he broke into the list while players like Palmieri and Mogilny did not. Salvador was very important for his tenure with the Devils. In fact, some fans probably don’t even realize how long he was with the franchise. He made such an impression, he was given a job with the MSG Network.
All this for Cam Janssen, who ended up returning to the Devils a few years later. This was a great trade by Lou Lamoriello at the trade deadline in 2008.