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Game #5 – Avalanche 5, Devils 3

There’s a certain bit of irony that in 2018-19 the Avs hung the first loss on the Devils for the season after last year’s great start was kicked into high gear against the Avs in the 2017-18 home opener.  Turns … Continue reading

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Game #3 – Devils 3, Sharks 2

A crisp fall afternoon, Sunday at 1 PM is always a great day for…Devils hockey?!  Don’t get me wrong, under normal circumstances I’d have been there this afternoon – especially after missing Thursday’s game and with the team off to … Continue reading

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Devils season preview

With the 2018-19 NHL season less than twenty-four hours away, it’s finally time to get back into hockey mode, especially for those of us who had their baseball season end months ago (albeit I did win a big fantasy league … Continue reading

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Brodeur returns to New Jersey

In what can mainly be described as a PR coup, the Devils brought franchise legend Martin Brodeur ‘home’, in an entirely new role of course.  After his tenure in St. Louis as an assistant GM, he’s returning to the organization … Continue reading

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Summer of calm for Hudson rivals, Rangers and Devils

It’s now been over a week since all the fireworks 🎇 were fired on the first day of free agency. Following John Tavares’ impactful decision to go home like Dorothy to Kansas Toronto, leaving a gaping hole for the Islanders … Continue reading

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Your 2017-18 Devils: A team to be proud of

For the Devils, today’s 3-1 loss to the Lightning in Tampa represents both an end and a beginning.  Of course, the end being that today represents the last game the Devils will play until they open the 2018-19 season next … Continue reading

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Devils season on the brink after costly 3-1 loss

Still a day and a half after the Devils’ critical loss in Game 4, I’m angry. Not angry at the team per se but angry at this joke of a league, and angry at this faux tough guy Lightning team … Continue reading

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Devils strike back against Tampa in wild win

In a Game 3 that had violent swings of momentum – and at the end a little violence on the ice – the Devils once again showed the mettle that powered their drive to the postseason, rallying from two deficits … Continue reading

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Once again, too little too late

https://twitter.com/NJDevils/status/985283299567439876 It’s hard to know how to start this piece after the Devils’ 5-3 playoff loss in Tampa put them in a big two-game hole against the top-seeded Lightning.  If you want to look at a glass half-full, you could … Continue reading

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Devils learn a valuable lesson in Game One

https://twitter.com/njdevils/status/984595237879402496?s=21 It was their first game in quite a while. For the first time since 2012, the New Jersey Devils officially returned to the NHL Playoffs on Thursday night in Tampa Bay. With a cool slogan of #NowWeRise and a … Continue reading

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