NEWARK--On Monday, the Devils made it a series. But in game four on Wednesday, they'll try and shift momentum--or at least mute the conversation that this series is a mismatch. After going down 2-0 in the series, the Devils needed some kind of spark on home ice. Even...
NEWARK--Not since Game 5 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Final has the Prudential Center hosted postseason hockey. Monday's return will be a source of excitement for fans, who watched the Devils surpass all expectations in the regular season to end a five-year playoff...
NEWARK--There was a great sense of pride in the Devils' locker room Thursday night at the Prudential Center. It wasn't that the club ended its six-year playoff drought, or that it improved upon a 70-point showing in 16-17 to at least 27 points better this year. It was...
NEWARK--To be a good team in the National Hockey League, you sometimes have to win games where you could have played better. You also have to find ways to grind out goals. Tuesday night hosting the Hurricanes, the Devils found a way to do both--even if it took nearly...
NEWARK--In sticking with the annual sports sensation that is March Madness, the Devils, a proverbial "underdog," defeated the first-place Lightning for the third time this season. Saturday's 2-1 final just might have been a first-round playoff series preview featuring...
Leaving Las Vegas with two points has been a challenge for most teams this season. Entering Wednesday night, the Golden Knights were 24-7-2 at home. The Devils, playing their second game of a six-game road trip, needed points to stay afloat in a tight Eastern...
Alexander The Great's life was over by the time he was 32. Though abbreviated, he enjoyed a life that included triumph and a rise to power. Also 32, Alexander Ovechkin, who often shares the same alias, is at the point where his game could understandably decline. But...
NEWARK--On a night to immortalize number 26, the owner of seemingly every offensive record in Devils history, there seemed to be room for reflection. Not only on the career of Patrik Elias, the Czech-born winger, that played his entire career in New Jersey, but also...
Last week's four-game win streak gave the Devils some separation. Certainly not enough to feel comfortable, but enough for GM Ray Shero to upgrade the team ahead of the trade deadline and with sights set on the postseason. Following a 4-2 loss at home to the Wild, the...
The NHL trade deadline, set for Monday, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. E.T., is the last chance for teams to look outside the organization for help ahead of the postseason. Thus far, deals have trickled in from day-to-day, but most are of the rental variety. The Dion...
The Metro is tight. That's not news. It's been that way all season long and looks like it'll stay that way with roughly six weeks to go in the regular season. The Capitals presently own first in the division but are one slump away from being caught by a division foe....
NEWARK--To end the team's four-game losing streak, the Devils probably knew an effort from some of its key producers was needed. On Tuesday in Philadelphia, they got it. Despite never leading in regulation, they answered the Flyers 4-2 lead with a late second-period...
In the moments that followed a fourth-consecutive regulation loss, a 5-3 defeat at home to the Bruins on Sunday, New Jersey head coach John Hynes wasn't brief with the media, nor did he sound like a coach whose team had lost four in a row. He praised his team's play...
NEWARK--With the home stretch of the regular season fast approaching, the Devils and Flyers got a good taste of what most contests might look like. Thursday's matchup was a hard-fought, spirited affair that didn't hold any punches (figurative or literal). But with...
Devils Dusted...Again Tuesday night may have been the most dramatic in what has been a concerning stretch for the Devils. Maybe it was the controversial double-minor on Miles Wood and the ensuing clock issues that counted up his already too-long penalty. Or maybe it...
NEWARK--If the NHL is a league of streaks, then it should come as no surprise that the Devils, who enjoyed a five-game win streak last month, are seeing things from the other side. They've been downed in six-straight contests, their longest skid of the year. And while...
On what is one of the NHL's quieter months (two sets of mandated-bye weeks and a four-day All-Star break), January offers plenty in the realm of reflection. That's good if you're on the right side of the standings where some of the teams currently on pause find...
NEWARK, N.J.--In his seventh season with the organization, Adam Henrique's popularity only figured to go up. Six years after the biggest goal of his career, the overtime series-clinching goal in game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final over the rival Rangers, he was...
Adam Henrique, the 27-year-old forward who scored one of the franchise's biggest goals in the last decade, was traded to the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday. In exchange for the sometimes center, sometimes winger, New Jersey acquired defenseman, Sami Vatanen and a...
My Thanksgiving has been pretty much the same for the last 15--20 years. I get up and watch some of the parade with my family; raid the candy bowl and other snacks left out in the dining room; eat copious amounts of food at dinner; and finally, I watch mostly the same...
Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne, the Hockey Hall of Fame's newest inductees and its resident bro's, came together following a 1996 trade that sent Selanne, then 25, from Winnipeg to Anaheim. Already dubbed "Finnish Flash," he was just three years removed from a 76-goal...
NEWARK, N.J.--In more ways than one Saturday's 2-1 win over Florida was a game of redemption for those who needed it the most. Entering the night without a win in its last four tries and coming off an overtime loss to the Oilers on Thursday, the Devils were looking...
The perception seems to be that the Senators paid a pretty penny for Matt Duchene. In Sunday's rare three-team deal, Ottawa sent goaltender, Andrew Hammond, 2017 first rounder, Shane Bowers, and a pair of draft picks including a lottery-protected first to the...
"These Devils aren't the Devils of old." This according to Canucks head coach, Travis Green. He, like others has caught on to the 9-2-0 club that's off to their best start in franchise history. Speed combined with skill and an abundance of youth have molded the...
It's Halloween. The time of year where friends invite you to parties to show off their topical costumes; kids totally respect the integrity of a "please take two only" sign on the candy bowl; and everyone but me apparently has Olympic-level pumpkin-carving skills....
NEWARK, N.J.--If Brian Gibbons or Jimmy Hayes are surprised by their individual success early on, they've done a good job at hiding it. But it would be understandable. Especially as the duo have become integral parts of the lineup. Called "identity players" by head...
So what about that preseason parade to the box? You remember that, right? When the already unnecessarily long preseason was further extended by newfound emphasis on face-off violations and slashing minors. It resulted in lots of power plays and made many (present...
The 2016-17 Devils were anything but a good team. If Newark native Shaquille O'Neal had seen them play he may have even called them "Horriawful." And he wouldn't be wrong either. From a -61 goal differential to a 28-40-14 regular season record, the franchise's worst...
Not since 1993 has a Canadian-based team won the Stanley Cup, the NHL's most coveted prize. Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa all tried from 2004 to 2006, going down in order to the American sunbelt of Tampa, Carolina and Anaheim. Vancouver was in position to finally put...
This summer the Devils were quick to sign Brian Boyle to a multi-year contract. For them, it was the intangibles that made him so desirable. His ability to win faceoff's, his presence in the dressing room and willingness to muck it up in the corner was appealing for a...
