The New Jersey Devils introduced that the staff has acquired Nashville’s fourth-round choose within the 2025 NHL Draft and defenseman Jeremy Hanzel in alternate for ahead Erik Haula.
#NEWS: We have acquired Nashville’s personal fourth-round choose within the 2025 NHL Draft and defenseman Jeremy Hanzel in alternate for ahead Erik Haula.
— New Jersey Devils (@NJDevils) June 18, 2025
Haula was initially acquired on July 13, 2022, from the Boston Bruins in alternate for Pavel Zacha. He scored 41 objectives and 56 assists for 97 factors with 140 penalty minutes (PIMs) in 227 video games performed with the Devils over the previous three seasons. He added seven factors (4g-3a) and 17 PIMs in 17 Stanley Cup Playoff video games with New Jersey in 2023 and 2025. Haula had one yr left on a three-year contract with a median annual worth of $3.15 million.
The seventh-round choose (No. 182) of the Minnesota Wild within the 2009 NHL Draft has 337 factors (153 objectives, 184 assists) in 759 video games for the Wild, Vegas Golden Knights, Carolina Hurricanes, Florida Panthers, Predators, Bruins, and Devils. He has 37 factors (16 objectives, 21 assists) in 78 playoff video games and helped the Golden Knights advance to the 2018 Stanley Cup Closing of their inaugural season, a five-game loss to the Washington Capitals.
Hanzel, 22, spent final season with Nashville’s minor league associates, the Milwaukee Admirals (American Hockey League) and Gwinnett Gladiators (ECHL). He registered two penalty minutes in 4 video games with the Admirals and three objectives and 19 assists for 22 factors with 28 penalty minutes for the Gladiators. He appeared in 4 regular-season video games (0g-2a, 2 PIM) and one Calder Cup playoff sport (PIM) with the Admirals in 2023-24, following the completion of his junior profession.
Hanzel was acquired by Nashville from the Colorado Avalanche on March 7, 2024, with the Avalanche’s third-round choose within the 2025 NHL Draft in alternate for ahead Yakov Trenin and defenseman Graham Sward. Born in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and a local of Burnaby, he was initially drafted by Colorado within the sixth spherical, 187th total, of the 2023 NHL Draft.
