The question of what must the Devils do to get some attention might finally have an answer.
Four months into this NHL season, the Devils, a franchise that has played all of five playoff games since the 2011-12 season, are charting a course to make it back to the promised land. A yearly staple of springtime hockey in the 1990s and 2000s, the Devils might finally have the successors to Patrik Elias, Zach Parise and Andy Greene.
“We’ve been playing meaningless hockey after the All-Star break the last couple years,” Hughes, the Devils’ lone representative at the All-Star Game, said Thursday. “The fact that we’re in the race now, we’re in a dogfight. We’re really pumped to be in that situation and we’re excited for it.” Nico HischierHughes — who has the privilege of being a No. 1 overall pick in a family that also includes a No. 7 overall pick and a No. 4 overall pick — has takenthis season.
If not for Edmonton’s Connor McDavid, Hughes might just be getting some buzz for the Hart Trophy. At 21 years old, he is one of the NHL’s most electric stars, centering an imminently watchable top line for the Devils that puts you in a blender with its speed and skill. 2015 departure to Toronto, this season has been a salve.Vitek Vanecek shoots the puck away from the onrushing Mika Zibanejad of the New York Rangers during the first period at the Prudential Center.
Indeed, the biggest culprit for the Devils’ struggles last season was their issues in net. Seven different goaltenders started games and six had save percentages below .900.That alone, though, doesn’t account for the out-of-nowhere rise of a team whose fans were so disgruntled that during the first week of the season, they chanted for coach Lindy Ruff to be fired.
During a 13-game winning streak that put the league on notice and spanned late October through Thanksgiving week, the same fans likely had another message for Ruff:
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