NEW YORK –Lately, life is much better for Scott Gomez, after his trade to the Montreal Canadiens, than it has been for the New York Rangers, the team which traded him north of the border.  The transition has been as smooth as could be expected, given that hockey is covered as fervently throughout Canada as [...]

Each player has ratings for the following scouting services: NHL’s Central Scouting (CS), The Hockey News (THN), McKeen’s (McK), International Scouting Service (ISS), Red Line Report (RLR), and Bob McKenzie of TSN.ca (TSN). CS breaks down their ratings by North American skaters, European skaters, North American goaltenders and European goaltenders. ISS, RLR, and TSN all [...]

NEWARK, NJ – No one had ever seen anything like it.
Long after the final buzzer ended, there was a zombie-like haze amongst the players and the coaches.
How could everything change in one minute and twenty seconds? How could home-ice advantage and a raucous crowd just melt away in 80 ticks of a clock?  How did [...]

NEWARK, NJ – Friday night, Tim Gleason told Mike Mottau, “Anything you can do, I can do better,” by scoring his first goal of the season as an overtime game-winner.
Mottau’s second goal of the season started the playoff scoring for the Devils on Wednesday, but Gleason’s tally pushed the series back to Carolina for Game [...]

NEWARK, NJ – Eerily reminiscent of a game not so long ago, when the Hurricanes scored two late goals to beat the Devils at home, New Jersey took a one goal lead into the third period against Carolina Saturday afternoon.
With the score 2-1, it was apparent that the Devils needed to play 60 complete minutes [...]

NEWARK, NJ – A professional hockey game lasts 60 minutes, but for the New Jersey Devils, it seemed the match against the Toronto Maple Leafs was over after only 20 minutes had been completed.
Toronto scored three goals in the first period off of Devils miscues to start them on a 4-1 victory in Newark.
“Three straight [...]

NEWARK, NJ – Cutting down the net seemed very appropriate.
Martin Brodeur took home the net he guarded during the third period of his 552nd win, the win that pushed him past Patrick Roy to first on the all-time victories list.
The Devils beat the Chicago Blackhawks Tuesday night, 3-2, in a special night for New Jersey’s [...]

NEWARK, NJ – The New Jersey Devils earned two very important points against the Montreal Canadiens Friday night at the Prudential Center.
With a 4-1 victory, the Devs have moved into a temporary tie for fifth place in the Eastern Conference with the Philadelphia Flyers, before the Flyers beat Anaheim later in the evening.
The win also [...]