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Devils season begins with a cloud of increasing expectations and injuries

Posted on October 7, 2025 by hasan4978

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

Posted on July 4, 2025 by hasan4978

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

Posted on May 8, 2025 by hasan4978

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

Posted on April 30, 2025 by hasan4978

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 begin postseason this weekend with a cloud of uncertainty

Posted on April 17, 2025 by hasan4978

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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Two steps forward, one step back for the Devils last week

Posted on March 17, 2025 by hasan4978

I really did mean to do a blog after last Thursday’s win against the Oilers, which ensured the Devils’ first three-game winning streak since December and was a nice bounceback from the rock bottom that was deadline day and a … Continue reading →

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Still-struggling Devils at a crisis point after Hughes injury in Vegas

Posted on March 3, 2025 by hasan4978

I’ve been wringing my hands for two months with this Devils team, not wanting to go completely off the deep end in part because of how awful the bottom of the East is – after all, the team is still … Continue reading →

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Devils stabilize going into the break, all while weathering mini-injury crisis

Posted on February 11, 2025 by hasan4978

Last time I wrote, the Devils had at least beaten the Bruins on Jacques Lemaire night, snapping a four game losing streak and hopefully ending the January blues this team went through. Whatever reason(s) you want to attribute the Devils’ … Continue reading →

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Devils’ Markstrom Expected Out Four to Six Weeks With MCL Sprain

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Derek

On Thursday, Jan. 23 during a 5-1 win over the Bruins, Devils’ starting netminder Jacob Markstrom left the game at 3:09 of the second period when Justin Brazeau lost his balance and fell into him to cause an injury. After … Continue reading →

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Devils finally have a return of good form on Lemaire night

Posted on January 23, 2025 by hasan4978

Last time I blogged I termed the Devils’ slump a mini-crisis, it certainly became a major one since then – no doubt about it. After a troubling 1-4-1 road trip, the Devils did return home and put up a good … Continue reading →

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