by Neal McHale | Nov 30, 2021 | Homepage, New Jersey Devils, NHL
Hard to recall a No. 1 overall pick with a stranger set of circumstances within their first three seasons. There was a global pandemic to shut down the rookie campaign and take a deep chunk out of the sophomore season, too. Then, there’s the third season, which...
by Neal McHale | Nov 25, 2021 | Homepage, New Jersey Devils, NHL
As we hit American Thanksgiving, the Devils have played 17 games, a 3-2 shootout loss at home to the Wild on Wednesday being the latest, another outing in which the Devils rallied from two behind to tie the game in the third, this time only clawing out a single point....
by Neal McHale | Oct 26, 2021 | New Jersey Devils
Four games, three wins–once in regulation, two in OT and a not-so-good 60-minute effort against the class of their division, and the Devils, three weeks into the season, remain a rather undefined hockey club. For starters, they’ve played just four games...
by Neal McHale | Oct 17, 2021 | Homepage, New Jersey Devils, NHL
Come Monday, the Devils will have played a single game one week into the NHL season. And while the 4-3 OT win capped off by the kind of nifty Jack Hughes maneuver fans inside a packed house at the Rock have been waiting for, it remains a small star in the universe...
by Neal McHale | Jul 23, 2021 | Homepage, New Jersey Devils, NHL
The unofficial start to the offseason has arrived. I suppose the actual start began moments after Tampa captured their second-straight Cup in a five-game Stanley Cup Final. There were some moves that came just prior to what was, comparably speaking anyway, a quiet...