Great news! The Devils stopped their 10-game losing streak last night with a 3-0 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. Ryan Carter opened up the scoring in the second period when his shot found a way through Ilya Bryzgalov’s five hole, marking the first Devils goal since their 5-4 loss to the Boston Bruins on April 10. Bad news: there now are ... Read More »
What defines “playing well?” Is it playing shut-down defense? Creating strong offensive pushes? Outhitting, outskating, outshooting? I’d say that it’s a combination of all of those things, not necessarily all at once, but none of those facets have helped the Devils win in the past three weeks. New Jersey is 0-5-4 in its last nine games, the second worst stretch ... Read More »
It’s crunch time for the Devils, and it arrived unexpectedly on the heels of a tremendous season last year that saw the Devils reach the Stanley Cup Final. This season has been a roller coaster year: at one point, they Devils are winning a back-to-back home-and-home over the formidable Pittsburgh Penguins, and the next week, they’re giving up 12 goals ... Read More »
38 year old forward Steve Sullivan was traded from the Phoenix Coyotes to the New Jersey Devils today. Here’s Sullivan’s year in a nutshell. He scored a hat trick in the third game of the season. He scored a goal the day after, and then went into hibernation mode, recording just two assists (after 7 straight games without a point). ... Read More »
The Devils are 2-6 in shootouts this season, including a pithy 0-5 record on the road, but head coach Pete DeBoer insists that the team doesn’t – and doesn’t need to – practice this part of their game. They didn’t practice last year, he has said, when they finished with a league-leading 12-4. May I remind you that that was ... Read More »
Today we’re going to take a look at the only goaltender on our list of current Living Legends. He’s right up there with the greatest goaltenders of all time and he owns a majority of the goaltending records. Even at the age of 40 he’s still at the top of his game. Let’s take a look at the skills of ... Read More »
Of course I’m writing about Martin Brodeur this week. Not only did Brodeur make his first appearance after missing 12 games, but he was credited with scoring the Devils first goal of their 4-1 rout of the Carolina Hurricanes. That makes Brodeur the first goalie to score three goals in his career; not that offensive prowess dictates a goalie’s historical ... Read More »
Slowly but surely, the mix-and-match lines that head coach Pete DeBoer is throwing out onto the ice seem to be finding a way to make things work better, even if it’s not making for effective regulation hockey. Two of New Jersey’s last three games have gone to a shootout – including last night’s 2-1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers – ... Read More »
The Devils broke their six-game losing streak on Thursday with a 3-2 shootout win over the Buffalo Sabres, as Patrik Elias scored a goal late in the third period to send the game to overtime then tallied the winning goal in the shootout. After having the best shootout record in the NHL last season, Elias, David Clarkson, and Ilya Kovalchuk ... Read More »
In a time when the Devils defense collectively is not getting the job done, one man sticks out in my mind: Adam Larsson. Anyone who has watched a Devils game with me in the past year knows that I have given him a hard time, to put it mildly. Looking at Larsson’s 2011-12 regular season stats, he led all defensemen ... Read More »
The Devils head to our nation’s capital to face the Washington Capitals tonight for the first of two consecutive road match-ups, and they’re doing it with yet another lineup change. Ryan Carter did not travel with the team to Washington after suffering an upper body injury in Monday’s 2-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators; he left that game in the ... Read More »
While watching the Devils play at the Pittsburgh Penguins Sunday night, the NBC announcers made a point that the New Jersey plays a certain brand of hockey and there aren’t that many other organizations out there that you could say the same about (the only other one mentioned was the Detroit Red Wings). When you watch the Devils play, you ... Read More »
When I was in elementary school, I became a temporary Vancouver Canucks fan, obviously prompted by the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals. At recess, I was beating some boys at punchball and talking about how I didn’t know what a Canuck was, but I wanted them to win. A classmate asked me how could I possibly root for a team that ... Read More »
We’re pretty early in the season, but what we’re seeing from Marty is something that we’ve rarely, if ever, seen before. At 40 years and 8 months of age, Martin Brodeur is 3-0-1 with a 1.69 GAA and a .932 SV%. Really? Really Marty? Both of those numbers would be career highs by wide margins. Yes I know it’s early. ... Read More »
Author’s note: We want to apologize to the readers. Originally, the article was written before the news about Kovalchuck returning to training camp had been released, and we neglected to update the story. Our bad. Please don’t hate us. Additions: Krys Barch (2 years, $1.5M), Bobby Butler (1 year, $1M) Losses: Zach Parise (Wild), Alexi Ponikarovsky (Jets), Eric Boulton (Islanders), ... Read More »
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