Posts About "Ben Lovejoy"
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...
