With limited cap space to fit Luke Hughes onto the roster, the Devils will need to figure out a way to extend him without sacrificing the rest of the competitive core.
As free agency showed the league, a rising cap does not just mean more money to play with to sign new players. It also meant that (almost) everyone else had enough cap space to re-sign their UFAs.
With the first couple of days of free agency behind us, and some new faces joining the New Jersey Devils, today we make some summer predictions at how the team could line up come opening night and some rationale behind it all.