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Here are your links for today: Devils Links Arseny Gritsyuk, Dougie Hamilton, Cody Glass, Dawson Mercer and Simon Nemec all scored as the Devils took a 5-1 win over the Panthers on Tuesday. [Devils NHL] Tom Fitzgerald is still running the show this deadline, for some reason: “On the surface, Hamilton’s 2025-26 season looks like […]
The New Jersey Devils may indeed be pulling out of the three-month slump that sank their season. Or the Devils’ very modest two-game winning streak might just be what it appears to be on its surface – a couple of wins over two teams that are somehow even worse off than the Devils. And make […]
The Matchup: New Jersey Devils (29-29-2) versus the Florida Panthers (30-27-3) The Time: 7:00 pm EST The Broadcast: TV — TNT, HBO Max; Radio — Devils Hockey Network The Game Preview: I had it here. The Rules: If you have been a reader here, you already know the rules. But for the rest, a reminder: please do […]
The Matchup: The New Jersey Devils (29-29-2) versus the Florida Panthers (30-27-3) The Time: 7:00 PM The Broadcast: TV — TNT, HBO Max; Radio — Devils Hockey Network Deadline Uncertainty With the NHL Trade Deadline quickly approaching, there has been an increase in rumors around the New Jersey Devils and the league at large. There […]
Utica scored ten goals in back-to-back wins over the weekend. This post covers them. Comets Win Utica opened up its winning ways on Friday with a 5-3 victory over the Belleville Senators. Five different comets found the twine: Jack Malone, Shane LaChance, Kyle Criscuolo, Xavier Parent, and Angus Crookshank. Goaltender Nico Daws earned his 10th […]
The NHL trade deadline is this Friday, March 6, at 3pm ET. With less than a week to go until such an important league-wide event, the New Jersey Devils have a decision to make. They are built to win now, but have very much not won now. As a result, they face the unenviable reality […]
Here are your links for today: Devils Links The losing streak is snapped: Goals from Timo Meier, Dougie Hamilton and Nico Hischier helped to push the Devils to a 3-1 win over the Blues on Saturday. [Devils NHL] Luke is back: Just a few hours after the Blues game, Jack appeared on Saturday Night Live: […]
For the purposes of this article, I am not going to touch the question: “should Tom Fitzgerald be making trades?” Regardless of what I think of him, he has the job. He should keep doing his job as long as he has it, and it’s entirely on ownership to decide whether or not he should […]
First Period In the first period, the Devils had a very disjointed effort. Despite not generating a ton of scoring chances (three high-danger), the team had several giveaways. Per Natural Stat Trick, Dawson Mercer (2), Connor Brown, Nick Bjugstad, Nico Hischier, Simon Nemec, and Timo Meier were all credited with giveaways on bad passes. Having […]
The Matchup: New Jersey Devils (28-29-2) @ St. Louis Blues (21-28-9) The Time: 5:00 pm EST The Broadcast: TV — MSG, Devils Hockey Radio The Game Preview: Matt had it here. The Rules: If you have been a reader here, you already know the rules. But for the rest, a reminder: please do not swear in the […]
Last Devils Game On Thursday night, the Devils played their 2nd game in 2 nights and did what they do best, losing 4-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins. I came to the realization that the Devils actually do excel at something. They lose so often and are so good at it, that you would not be […]
We already knew it before the Olympics, but these last two games right out of the break confirmed it: The New Jersey Devils’ season is over. There are a million different reasons on the micro level why this has become one of the most disappointing Devils seasons in my lifetime, but on the macro level, […]
Here are your links for today: Devils Links In a dispiriting season, a great moment the other night: With the Olympic break in the rearview mirror and the guys back in New Jersey, the Devils dropped a 2-1 decision to the Sabres on Wednesday. [Devils NHL] Then on Thursday night, a three-goal third period pushed […]
There was a point, about midway through Thursday’s 4-1 loss to Pittsburgh, where it kind of, sort of felt as if the Devils might manage to salvage a point, maybe even steal two from the Penguins. Paul Cotter had scored, an almost water-to-wine level miracle. Jacob Markstrom was playing as well as he has at […]
The Matchup: The New Jersey Devils (28-28-2) at the Pittsburgh Penguins (29-15-12) The Time: 7:00 pm EST The Broadcast: TV — MSG, Devils Hockey Radio The Game Preview: Matt had it here. The Rules: If you have been a reader here, you already know the rules. But for the rest, a reminder: please do not swear in […]
The NHL’s Olympic break has come and gone; seven New Jersey Devils players went out and represented their national team in the competition. While only Jack Hughes came home with a medal, five of the seven including him went out and looked at least as good as their best games this season in New Jersey. […]
Last Devils Game On Wednesday night, the Devils lost at home, 2-1 to the Buffalo Sabres. The 2 teams went scoreless in the first period before Tage Thompson scored his 31st goal of the season to give Buffalo the lead about halfway through the 2nd period. Peyton Krebs scored halfway through the 3rd period to […]
Boy, those two weeks just flew by, huh? Oh well, back to this. You remember this, right? Hockey that isn’t much fun to watch. Meaningless hockey. Hockey that leaves you angry and baffled instead of excited. If you’d somehow managed to forget, boy did the Devils have a reminder for you Wednesday night. The Devils […]
The Matchup: The New Jersey Devils (28-27-2) versus the Buffalo Sabres (32-19-6). The Time: 7:00 pm EST The Broadcast: TV — MSGSN, Devils Hockey Radio The Game Preview: Matt had it here. The Rules: If you have been a reader here, you already know the rules. But for the rest, a reminder: please do not swear in […]
Big time players make big time plays in the biggest spots, creating moments and memories that last a lifetime. It’s a tale as old as time in sports. It’s why in the NYC metropolitan area, athletes like Eli Manning and Derek Jeter are as revered as they are. When the lights are the brightest, the […]
Plenty of politics intertwined with the hockey world over the last few days certainly. Be adults in the comments section please. Here are your links for today: Devils Links “U.S. Olympic hockey player Jack Hughes called his team’s relationship with the U.S. women’s team as ‘tight,’ pushing back on the backlash over his team’s reaction […]
Last Devils Game Way back on February 5th, the Devils lost at home to the New York Islanders 3-1. The game was scoreless after the 1st period before the Devils and Islanders traded goals in the 2nd period. Nico Hischier (who is the captain of the team, in case Bryce Salvador never told you before) […]
The Olympic Games are a beautiful thing. There are only, to my knowledge, two arenas in which all countries can regularly come together and depart without coming to blows. The Olympics are one such arena (hockey fights and curling controversies excepted), and the United Nations is the other. Thankfully, I am not paid to write […]
The first Devils prospect to 20 goals this season is David Rozsival. Let’s talk about him. First to 20 Goals After a slow start, winger David Rozsival has been explosive in the past thirty or so games, totaling 20 goals and 11 assists in 44 contests this season. It’s been a serious rise up the […]
You’ve all seen it a million times by now: The New Jersey Devils’ own Jack Hughes scoring the golden goal in yesterday’s Gold Medal Game against Canada. Our superstar delivered the USA its first mens hockey gold medal since the Miracle On Ice team of 1980, one of hockey’s mythological teams, not just in the […]