The New Jersey Devils announced their opening night roster for the 2024-25 NHL Season on Monday, October 7th. Teams had until 5 p.m. on Monday to be cap-compliant.
Seamus Casey Has Made The Devils Roster Decisions Even Harder
The Devils are 2-0-0 after starting the season in Prague, Czechia, as part of the NHL’s Global Series against the Buffalo Sabres. New Jersey will host their head coach’s former team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, on Thursday, October 10, at 7:00 p.m.
Here is the Roster per the Devils. There are no surprises.
Goaltenders (2)
No. 34 – Jake Allen
No. 25 – Jacob Markstrom
Defensemen (6)
No. 24 – Seamus Casey
No. 5 – Brenden Dillon
No. 7 – Dougie Hamilton
No. 8 – Johnathan Kovacevic
No. 17 – Simon Nemec
No. 71 – Jonas Siegenthaler
Note: Casey continues to impress on the ice. He recorded his first NHL in Game 2 of the Global Series. It will be interesting to see what the Devils do when Luke Hughes and Brett Pesce are ready to go.
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Forwards (13)
No. 14 – Nathan Bastian
No. 63 – Jesper Bratt
No. 47 – Paul Cotter
No. 56 – Erik Haula
No. 13 – Nico Hischier (C)
No. 86 – Jack Hughes (A)
No. 42 – Curtis Lazar
No. 23 – Kurtis MacDermid
No. 28 – Timo Meier
No. 91 – Dawson Mercer
No. 11 – Stefan Noesen
No. 18 – Ondrej Palat (A)
No. 90 – Tomas Tatar
Injured, Non-Roster
A couple of non-rostered injured players will not count against the salary cap.
Defensemen
No. 43 – Luke Hughes (Off-season shoulder injury).
No. 22 – Brett Pesce (Recovery from off-season ankle surgery).
No. 38 – Topias Vilen (Upper-body injury)
Hughes’s return date is still five to seven weeks away, sometime in November. Pesce’s timetable is more of an unknown. However, he is listed as day-to-day. The Devils say he is close to returning, but it depends on how his foot feels when skating.
Forwards
No. 12 – Adam Beckman (Lower-body injury)
No. 86 – Josh Filmon (Upper-body injury)
Injured Reserve
No. 82 – Santeri Hatakka (Upper-body injury, retroactive to 9/24/24)
On Sunday, the Devils Made the Following Transactions:
The following players have been waived to loan to Utica:
F Shane Bowers
D Nick DeSimone
F Nolan Foote
D Colton White
New Jersey has loaned the following players to Utica:
G Nico Daws
According to PuckPedia.com, the Devils have $441,859 in salary cap space to begin the season. They will have around $2 million around the NHL Trade Deadline.
This is the New Jersey Devils Opening Roster for the 2024-25 NHL Season.
