The Devils won’t stop dealing.
New Jersey acquired winger Tyler Toffoli from the Calgary Flames on Tuesday in exchange for center Yegor Sharangovich and a 2023 third-round pick in Wedneday’s NHL Draft, the team announced.
Toffoli is a 31-year-old veteran skater fresh off a career year with the Flames as he posted a personal-best 34 goals and 73 points, leading Calgary in both categories.
An 11-year veteran with seven playoff runs and a Stanley Cup championship with the Los Angeles Kings under his belt, Toffoli is a welcome addition to a Devils team that has aspirations for a title.
Toffoli, entering the last year of a four-year contract he initially signed with Montreal, is owed $4.25 million this coming season.
Sharangovich, 24, was set to hit restricted free agency after playing three years on the Devils.
He was selected in the fifth round of the 2018 draft, totaling 106 points over his tenure.
The deal for Toffoli is the latest in a slew of activity from the Devils, who traded franchise mainstay Damon Severson earlier this offseason and unloaded goalie Mackenzie Blackwood earlier Tuesday.
The Devils, who last year posted the team’s highest point total in franchise history and its most successful season since 2011-12, are gearing up for another playoff push.
New Jersey signed promising 24-year-old forward Jesper Bratt to an eight-year extension earlier in June and re-signed veteran left winger Erik Haula to a three-year deal last Friday.
Bratt is an emerging talent who has made a considerable impact for two consecutive years in New Jersey, totaling 73 points in both seasons and scoring eight power-play goals in 2022-23.
Haula is a versatile player who helped the Devils win in multiple ways, providing leadership and an aptitude on the penalty kill and in the faceoff circle.
Toffoli wanted out of Calgary as the Flames adjust to a new regime, general manager Craig Conroy told Sportsnet.
“He (originally) expressed maybe being here and something happening quickly, and when it didn’t… there are so many moving parts and he wanted a change,” Conroy said. “That’s not why we did anything.
“We’ve just got to make sure guys want to be here and that’s the direction we went.”