New Jersey Devils: Five Most Tradable Players
By Mike Luci
Miles Wood, Right/Left Wing
As of writing this, Miles Wood is currently the only New Jersey Devils forward whose contract extends beyond the 2020-2021 season. Like many Devils players this past season, Wood underachieved and failed to reach the high expectations set by his encouraging 2017-2018 performance, where he posted career-highs of 19 goals and 32 points.
Like I mentioned with Vatanen, I’m sure teams will be able to look past Wood’s abysmal season and value the combination of size, speed and physicality he brings. Being that Wood is locked up for three more years with a cap-friendly $2.75 million AAV, he’s an asset teams would have control of beyond next season and at a potentially fruitful bargain.
Although Wood had a disastrously slow start to the 2018-2019 season, he picked up his play (before getting derailed by injuries) toward the latter-half of the year when he had six goals and 13 points in 25 contests. In his first 38 games, Wood only tallied four goals and 11 points.
Wood even managed to maintain a Fenwick For above 50 percent and positive Relative Fenwick For percentage (both at even strength) for the second consecutive season, which is a telling statistic for someone that played on a team that underachieved as monumentally as the 2018-2019 New Jersey Devils.