When it comes to contract talks with forward Taylor Hall, it’s still status quo for the Devils and GM Ray Shero.

Shero recently talked to Hall’s agent, Darren Ferris, again, but the two sides haven’t formally sat down together.

Hall has said he wants to take his time to evaluate the situation, and Shero hasn’t worried about that since Hall said so at the end of the season in April. Hall still has a year left on his contract before he’s eligible to become an unrestricted free agent next summer, though the Devils are currently able to sign him to an extension of up to eight years.

“This is something that we’ve agreed to kind of go through the draft, go through free agency. We have development camp next week,” Shero said. “And really what I think both of us need is some more information, and it’s no different as they say that it was with Taylor with a year to go. Somewhere later in the summer ... we’re going to sit down and and kind of see where we are.”

Part of Hall’s process involved seeing what the Devils did in trades, free agency and the NHL draft, and there’s still the possibility Shero adds more pieces to the puzzle in the coming weeks and months.

So when will that sit-down meeting happen?

“I don’t have the crystal ball as to when or how or what the story will be, but I think you’ll know it when we get to it, and then we’ll go from there,” Shero said. “And nothing’s really changed. I mean, it’s in terms of with Taylor, and, again, my job is to, build the best team I can for the short and long term. And also when it comes to dealing with players and relationships, let’s sit down with them and explain to them as to what we’re doing. And, you know, I want them to be aware of it.”

Shero’s stance on contract talks with Hall hasn’t budged in the past three months, and the two sides have had consistent communication, primarily through Shero and Ferris.

“We’ve been on the same page on that,” Shero said. “Because this isn’t something to be rushed, and even it this was a year ago (after) the 2017-18 season, and we make the playoffs and he wins MVP. If he had a year left at that point, nothing that would have been (different). It’s the same thing, sitting down in the summertime and then just kind of seeing where we are. And that’s it. So nothing’s really changed in that it’s just, I think it’s an important part of what we’re doing.”

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