Teams in various sports have a tendency to burn themselves out in one playoff series and then have nothing left in the tank to continue on to the next level of the playoffs, let alone win championships. Apparently, the New Jersey Devils have confused winning the postseason Hudson River Rivalry over the New York Rangers is akin to winning the …
What a week this has been in the NHL. Yes, the playoffs are here, and all bets are off. Nobody cares what you did in the regular season – this is the Stanley Cup playoffs, and you better show up ready to play or get ready to go home. For the New Jersey Devils, things look, well, bleak. Forget about the 112 …
In what can be considered a gross understatement, the New Jersey Devils should receive a trophy as the turnaround team in the NHL this past season. With an improvement of 25 more wins and 49 more total points from 2021-22 to 2022-23, the Devils finished up this year comfortably in second place in the Metropolitan Division. They were one of the most …
In case you haven’t heard, the NHL regular season isn’t quite over just yet and with a massive matchup between the Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils being the marquee hockey game this weekend on television, maybe the folks at ESPN are a bit clairvoyant and just know who’s going to be in the Eastern Conference finals this spring. Of course, that might offend …
It’s hard to believe that the 2022-23 NHL regular season is in it’s waning days. Soon. Stanley Cup playoff fever will begin its crescendo and guess what – the New Jersey Devils are in the thick and thin of the playoff mix. How will the Devils finish up this year? With a 47-20-8 record and 102 points, the New Jersey …
Another Devils season has come and gone, and the team’s golfing. Once again, the Devils missed the playoffs by a large margin and have netted top five odds to win the lottery draft. While there was a lot of losing this season, there were tons of positives to take away. Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt, and Nico Hischier take a huge …
Experience Devils hockey. I would say this week summed up what Devils hockey has been like for the last decade, but that would be disrespectful to the last decade. The Devils began the week with one of the most embarrassing losses in team history as they got humiliated by the Boston Bruins, who in that game had eight goals before …
It’s only a matter of time till the Devils are eliminated from playoff contention this season. Tonight’s win against the Canadiens delayed the inevitable. If the Devils lost in regulation, they’d be the second team eliminated from the playoffs this year. By next week’s article, the Devils will most likely have been eliminated, and that’s okay because this team isn’t …
As of late, the New Jersey Devils have found themselves in a bit of a groove going 3-1 in their latest homestand. Thanks to Nico Daws, they’ve finally gotten something they’ve been missing all season, goaltending. However, over the last two games, the absence of Captain Nico Hischier has loomed large. If the Devils want to continue this run and …
There is no way to explain it, but the Devils have been a much better team this year without their young star Jack Hughes. In Jack’s most recent three-game absence from the lineup, they went 2-1 and scored 7 goals in two of those games. On Sunday’s game against the Penguins, Hughes returned, scored a goal and the Devils lost. …
