In the crazy season that just ended aka the lockout-shortened 48-game NHL 2013 season, every team dealt with major issues, be it crazy road trips, not enough practice time to correct specific flaws or injuries to key players. But of all the storylines in the 30-team league, one of the most interesting was how quickly ...
The 2013 NHL Trade Deadline has come and gone and the defending Eastern Conference champion New Jersey Devils basically stood pat, only acquiring former-Devil Steve Sullivan from the Phoenix Coyotes for a 7th round draft pick in 2014. Currently the Devils are clinging to a playoff spot as the regular season enters it’s final 24 ...
As the NHL trade deadline approaches (April 3) GM’s around the league are looking to bolster their teams as well as adding pieces that they hope are the missing ones in their franchise’s championship puzzle. In New Jersey it’s no different as Lou Lamoriello had already added Alexei Ponikarovsky (from Winnipeg), Andrei Loktionov (from Los ...
During a recent game in New Jersey defenseman Anton Volchenkov skated to the Devils bench during a penalty kill after the puck was cleared, hunched over in pain after one of the NHL’s rising stars — Winnipeg Jets winger Evander Kane blasted a shot that he absorbed on the right side of his back. Afterwards, ...
The New Jersey Devils are in a slump, there’s no two ways about it and in this shortened 2013 NHL season if your squad slumps for too long they could find themselves out of a playoff spot. For the Devils, their hot start to the season (9-2-3) has kept them afloat and in the East’s ...
Steve Spott was born on May 18, 1968 in Toronto, Ontario. He played for Colgate University from 1986 until 1990 where he had 148 points in 121 games. He then played for the Richmond Renegades of the ECHL for 27 games in the 1990-91 campaign where he had 28 points. For the rest of the ...
Through the first quarter of the 2013 season, there have been a number of factors that have played into the successful start the New Jersey Devils have had. The play of David Clarkson through those first 12 games has certainly grabbed the attention of many This is David Clarkson’s 7th season with the New Jersey ...
While Martin Brodeur continues to play at an elite level at the age of 40, Johan Hedberg has also stood the test of time.
Last season ended about as badly as one could end for Steve Bernier; not only did his team, the New Jersey Devils, lose in the Stanley Cup Finals but he was kicked out of the final game for a boarding major against Los Angeles Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi. The ensuing five-minute major penalty resulted in ...
Jacob Josefson has had a bumpy start to his NHL career with the New Jersey Devils — he has shown flashes of brilliance, but has also fallen victim to the injury ninja. Not just any injuries though, ones that last months rather than days or weeks. Now in his third season as a pro (2009 ...
