Posts About "Ben Lovejoy"
Ben Lovejoy's Completed NHL Career
August 30th, 2019 Championship teams depend on superstar players to perform like superstars. The Pittsburgh Penguins know this full well with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin anchoring the franchise for 14 and 13 completed seasons, respectively. However, two players can’t win a Cup by themselves. Less heralded players must play contributing roles and...
Devils 2019 Trade Deadline Review
February 26th, 2019 The NHL trade deadline has come and gone, and the New Jersey Devils have added to their stockpile of assets. Early Monday morning, they traded goalie Keith Kinkaid to the Columbus Blue Jackets for a 2022 fifth-round pick. That was followed by a deal that sent Marcus Johansson to the Boston Bruins for a 2019 second-round pick...
Devils Taking a Flyer on Connor Carrick
February 23rd, 2019 Early Saturday morning, the New Jersey Devils traded defenseman Ben Lovejoy to the Dallas Stars for a 2019 third-round pick and defenseman Connor Carrick. Lovejoy, 35 years old, has seven points in 51 games and is averaging close to 18 minutes a night. Carrick has four points in 14 games and has struggled to stay in the lineup on a...
Devils Need a Fire Sale for the Future
January 12th, 2019 Things have become much clearer for the New Jersey Devils over the last few weeks. They sit in second to last place in the Metropolitan Division, and as of Friday evening, they have a 1.8% chance of qualifying for the postseason. It's not how anyone envisioned the season would go, especially after last season's surprise...
Devils Key Piece on Defense?
January 25th, 2018 When the New Jersey Devils signed Ben Lovejoy in the summer of 2016, he had big shoes to fill. The team had just traded Adam Larsson for Taylor Hall, leaving a void on their blue line. Lovejoy was expected to eat some of the minutes they lost in Larsson. Needless to say, he had a tough time producing in his first season and found...
Hockey's All-Time All-Ivy League Team
November 16th, 2017 There are six Ivy League schools with Division 1 hockey programs - Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Together, three of those schools have a combined four NCAA tournament championships with Cornell having won twice. Unlike other Division 1 programs, Ivy Leagues do not allow athletic scholarships. Instead,...
Butcher Boosts Devils Blue Line
October 4th, 2017 It’s not often a team wins a lottery to pick first overall in the NHL Draft and then wins another lottery when they sign a Hobey Baker winner out of college, but that’s exactly what happened this summer for the New Jersey Devils with the additions of forward Nico Hischier and defenseman Will Butcher, respectively, to their...
Deep Thoughts with Ben Lovejoy
September 27th, 2017 Any hockey reporter who has had the opportunity to interview defenseman Ben Lovejoy through his nine-year career knows that he is a reporter’s dream. His replies to our questions are not only in-depth, descriptive and honest, but he’s also a loquacious wordsmith with a smooth delivery that just about causes you to pause as you...
Projecting the Devils Final Roster
September 26th, 2017 The New Jersey Devils played two preseason games on Monday night, one against the Ottawa Senators and one against the New York Islanders. They came away with an 8-1 win against the Sens and a 3-0 loss to the Isles. Fortunately, the roster that won mainly consisted of NHL starters while the roster that lost was basically an AHL team with...
Devils Game Two Observations
September 21st, 2017 The New Jersey Devils played their second preseason game on Wednesday night against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. The Devils left New York with a 4-3 loss in overtime but it was not all bad. The offense stepped up and scored three goals while the goaltending looked good despite allowing four goals. The real problem for...
Devils Defense Needs Reorganizing
May 21st, 2017 It's no secret that the New Jersey Devils are barren at defense. The main roster blue line has noticeable shortages and the prospect pool has dried up. An important part of John Hynes' fast, attacking, supportive strategy relies on defenders to drive play up ice to create chances. A low scoring team cannot go far unless its defense is...
4 Devils Vegas Fans Should Know
April 29th, 2017 A month ago I would have titled this article "4 Devils Vegas Fans Should Be Watching". But there are no more New Jersey games to watch, Vegas Golden Knights faithful. We've seen everything we're going to see ahead of which Devil will be relocating to Southern Nevada come June. Postseason hockey hasn't been on the New Jersey schedule...
Santini a Silver Lining in Lost Season for Devils
April 23rd, 2017 One of the most important pieces of the attempted rebuild of the New Jersey Devils is without question defenseman Steven Santini, who just turned 22-years-old on March 7. The Devils used their second round pick (42 overall) in the 2013 NHL Draft to select the Boston College blueliner and signed him last season to play in the regular...
