June 30: New Jersey has changed its mind and will indeed grant Glass his $2.5MM qualifying offer, per PuckPedia.
June 21: Cody Glass proved to be a useful addition for the Devils down the stretch. However, it appears that won’t be enough to keep him in the fold as Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reports that New Jersey is not expected to tender a qualifying offer at the end of the month which would make him an unrestricted free agent in July.
The 26-year-old was the sixth overall pick back in 2017 but has not yet lived up to his draft billing and has bounced around the league a bit, seeing action with four different teams over his first six NHL seasons.
It looked like Glass was turning a corner with Nashville when he put up 35 points in 72 games in the 2022-23 season, earning himself a two-year, $5MM contract along the way. But after his production slipped to just 13 points in 41 games the following year, the Preds shipped him with a pair of draft picks to Pittsburgh to open up some cap flexibility after their summer spending spree in free agency.
With the Penguins, Glass produced at a largely similar rate, tallying four goals and 11 assists in 51 games. But with the Devils looking for some insurance down the middle heading into the playoffs, they moved prospects Chase Stillman and Max Graham along with a 2027 third-round pick for Glass and forward Jonathan Gruden.
The change of scenery seemed to get Glass going offensively as he picked up two goals and five assists in 14 games following the swap while seeing an uptick in playing time to 14:31 per game. However, he was held off the scoresheet in their first-round playoff exit at the hands of Carolina.
To retain his RFA rights, the Devils would need to tender Glass a $2.5MM qualifying offer that would also carry salary arbitration rights. While his career numbers of 35 goals and 58 assists in 252 games aren’t lofty by any stretch, there’s a chance that an arbitration would award a higher amount than that. It appears that’s a risk New Jersey isn’t willing to take at this time. While the two sides could discuss a cheaper deal than that beforehand (his agent told The Hockey News’ Kristy Flannery earlier this week there had been preliminary talks between the sides), it doesn’t look like that’s in the cards, meaning that Glass appears to be set to hit the open market less than two weeks from now.
La kings he on the list
Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see they haven’t got cap space to pay 4th liners 2.5m.
After he’s nontendered he’ll be making significantly less than that, I predict… $1.25m probably from a desperate Canucks or Philadelphia
In NJD didn’t pay him 1.25 I’d be surprised. He’s decent in a limited role.
Given the Devils will most likely add Quinn Hughes at some point Free Agency when he gets there or a trade? Could potentially a 3 team swap of Quinn Hughes to New Jersey, Dougie Hamilton to Buffalo, and Bowen Byram to Vancouver, plus necessary roster players, prospects, or picks to facilitate a deal work out? Hughes wanting to play with his brothers, Byram rumored to want to go to Vancouver, and Hamilton being the better defenseman on New Jersey not named Luke Hughes could make an interesting Splash for the off-season
It’s a nice idea but no.
Van would need to get NJD 1st, Nemec, maybe another prospect.
Byram for Hamilton is probably close to fair but Van needs more here than anyone would pay. If he really wants to come to NJ, they get him free soon so why pay.
A lot more draft capital/assets than suggested but interesting framework for sure.
Glass shows why it’s best the Pens moved on from Sully.
He never gave Glass (or anyone like him) a real chance. NJ did and he showed them something.
He never trusted any young players that he didn’t coach in WBS (except Jake, but Jake had to score two goals in his first game and never look back to earn that) and that’s all we’ll have…young guys, guys like Glass and our 3 HOF’ers.
Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Uncle Tom thinks he’s a 3rd line regular. Either that or he found a taker for Palat and we no longer have a cap crunch..
I remember when the socalled experts were calling Glass a future core player after he was drafted by Vegas.