The Only Goal for the Devils Should Be to Tread Water and Survive
Losing Nico Hischier and Jack Hughes obviously isn’t ideal, but injuries happen. The Devils have to move on the best they can without them for now.
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Losing Nico Hischier and Jack Hughes obviously isn’t ideal, but injuries happen. The Devils have to move on the best they can without them for now.
I don’t like to think of myself as a superstitious person, I’m a little stitious, and for that reason this edition of the Handy Dandy Playoff Notebook comes on gameday again, as opposed to the day...
Photo by Bill Wippert/NHLI via Getty Images For the past seven or so years, the New Jersey Devils have been — with the brief exception of the Taylor-Hall-MVP-season-fueled run to the playoffs in 2017-18 — an NHL also-ran. Rarely relevant in the league standings and often downright terrible, the Devils have had a rough go of things since the team effectively collapsed under the weight of years of future-mortgaging and poor drafting in 2014-15. A major culprit of the demise of one of the league’s model hockey operations over the prior two-plus decades was the disintegration of organizatio...