Nico Hischier‘s Agent Speaks On Where Extension Talks Are At with the Devils
One of the bigger offseason priorities for New Jersey Devils general manager Sunny Mehta is to get captain Nico Hischier signed to an extension. While official contract talks cannot, in the eyes of the NHL Rulebook, begin until July 1st, 2026, the Devils and Hischier’s agent, Allain Roy, have begun informal talks about what an extension may or may not look like.
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Right now, everyone is on the same page, and an extension is more likely than not, but as Allain Roy told Keith Kavanaugh on the Puck Pedia Hockey Show, Hischier wants to win and wants to see how things play out, as things are still in the early stages of talks
TheDevilsNation.com Transcriptions
Keith Kavanaugh: “Nico Hischier, one of your top clients, is eligible for an extension starting on July 1st. It’s already been reported that you had some initial conversations with Sunny Mehta. Walk us through kind of that process when you have a client whose extension eligible. He’s a player at a premium position. He’s a two-way beast. He’s a guy that’s going to do really well on his next contract. He’s in his prime years right now.”
Allain Roy: “Sunny’s a new GM gentleman. Very, very nice guy, very smart, very sharp, especially numbers guy. We’ve had a couple of conversations. Right now, we’re still not kind of formulating any finite numbers yet.
Nico and I, and Nico just finished the World Championships, where they lost the gold in a heartbreaking overtime. So, I’ve kind of let him play there, because he, like, he really wanted to win gold for Switzerland. For him, he’s the captain, it’s his team, they picked him first.
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Of course, we’re having conversations about, ‘hey, what’s it going to look like if we stay.’ And you’re right to make the comment, especially for a top-tier player.
He’s at his highest point of his value, if you were going to trade him the year before his contract expires, because then you could probably do a sign and trade, and somebody knows they’ve got them, and all that good stuff, right? Don’t think it would be Sunny’s choice to wait until next summer.
So, yeah, the next, the next month’s going to be important. Figure out kind of where things are at. But hey, Nico is a particular player. He brings offense. He’s so good defensive. He’s good in the face-off circle. He’s kind of (Aleksander) Barkov 2.0 a little bit, right?”
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Again, these talks are in their infant stages. As Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic wrote, the expectation and most likely outcome is an extension despite teams like the Montreal Canadiens having interest in his services if he were to become available via trade.
However, all eyes will be on the extension length. Nico Hischier wants to win. He has seen very little playoff success. So Hischier will want to see what Mehta does before committing long-term. Despite people thinking this could be done right away, the sense is that it might take longer than originally thought.
