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Devils’ season comes to a head as Luke’s mistakes and the fans’ booing become the flashpoint for a franchise in crisis

When I made my last post in the preseason about stepping away, I wasn’t sure if I was retiring or just going on a semi-scaled back version of posting. Long story short, I just wasn’t having fun writing about this … Continue reading

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Devils season begins with a cloud of increasing expectations and injuries

I admit I wasn’t following the Devils enough in the preseason to know much of anything other than the seemingly neverending Luke Hughes contract speculation, which finally ended a few days ago when the young defenseman signed a much-anticipated seven-year … Continue reading

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Devils make incremental progress in FA week, still work to be done

As far as expected outcomes, I suppose this free agency weekend was the best-case scenario for the Devils, all things considered. I wasn’t expecting any big moves given the Devils don’t seem to be in any hurry to clear up … Continue reading

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Devils’ offseason begins with GM admitting changes are needed and coach calling their season average

If you want to have a single takeaway from the 40-minute joint presser with GM Tom Fitzgerald and coach Sheldon Keefe, it’s that both are on the same page that this year while it wasn’t a disaster – also wasn’t … Continue reading

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Devils’ season ends once again in Raleigh, fittingly in excruciating fashion

Never has such an inevitable result been more annoying, other than I suppose the 2008 playoffs where we lost in five games to a Ranger team we couldn’t even beat in open play during eight games of the regular season … Continue reading

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Devils revert back to form early in Game 4, run out of gas late in a 5-2 loss

Fifty-two seconds…that’s all it took for all the good vibes of Game 3 and the fans’ energy in the pregame to evaporate. Fifty-two lousy seconds for Carolina to dominate us on the first shift, for Dougie Hamilton to make a … Continue reading

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Devils’ dramatic 3-2 OT win over Carolina provides a reprieve and ray of hope

As someone who’s been down on this team for months and really the better part of two years, I have to agree with the coach here…last night was nothing short of a heroic display of grit and determination at home. … Continue reading

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Devils’ attack again flatlines in another Raleigh shutdown

Another playoff game in Raleigh, another defeat…the script has been old for the last fifteen years but it never changes. Now we’re 1-13 in our last fourteen playoff games at that house of horrors, with every chance we don’t get … Continue reading

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Devils live down to worst-case expectations in Game 1 loss at Raleigh

If I didn’t know better I’d swear this was 2023…or 2006, or 2002. Whatever year you want to name where the Devils go down to Carolina to start a series and promptly look intimidated and not ready to play playoff … Continue reading

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Devils begin postseason this weekend with a cloud of uncertainty

In my recap of Devils-Canes playoff history I pretty well glossed over the most recent of the series, and the only one where a majority of the players were involved with – the second-round matchup two years ago. With good … Continue reading

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