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MetLife Stadium will host two hockey games in February 2024, one featuring the New Jersey Devils. | Photo by John Moore/ A decade after a game in Yankee Stadium, the New Jersey Devils will host the Philadelphia Flyers on February 17, 2024 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey. This post reacts tonight’s announcement of the outdoor game. Prior to the start of the Stanley Cup Finals, National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly held a media session. Plenty of news items were dropped, such as the confirmation that the...

Photo by Rich Graessle/NHLI via With all of the pending free agents on the Devils, some might slip under the radar somewhat. As a fourth liner, Nathan Bastian could be one. Come see what he’s done and what bringing him back would look like. The New Jersey Devils have a ton of cap space this offseason; however, the main reason for that is the fact that a ton of skaters were playing on expiring deals this year. This is especially true amongst the forward group. Among the 14 forwards listed on the active roster on Cap Friendly, a full 9 are either restricted free...

Oh Bruno, how we hate to see you go. | Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports Whether we like it or not, change is a part of every offseason. And it’s begun to happen around the Devils. The offseason happened a little faster than any Devils fan wanted it to. One second you’re celebrating the demise of our Hated Rivals and then next, you’re packing your golf clubs and wakeboards for a long summer. As Ferris Bueller once so famously said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once and a while, you might miss it.” The offseason carousel of change has...

Lenni Hameenaho represented his nation in the 2023 WJCs | Photo by Dale Preston/ Lenni Hämeenaho of Porin Ässät made the first team in his draft eligible year, he was the only 2023 draft-eligible player on Finland’s WJC roster, and he produced in Liiga. So how could he be available for the Devils in the late second round? Read this to learn why. For whatever reason, Finnish hockey players have yet to find sustained success on the New Jersey Devils. Finland is one of Europe’s top hockey nations and yet the best Devil among them was Sami Vatanen, whom the Devils...

Kyle Dubas | Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports New Jersey Devils & Related Hockey Links for 6/2/23 Here are your links for today: Devils Links What are the Devils losing as Andrew Brunette departs? Todd Cordell: “Brunette has a rosy reputation as an offensive guru and power play specialist. Perhaps a little too rosy. I’m not going to sit here and tell you he did a horrendous job. I do think it was a little underwhelming, however. At the very least, worse than most would have you believing.” [Infernal Access ($)] It seems very unlikely that Mackenzie Blackwood will...

Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports A Devils draft choice all the way back in 2013, Miles Wood earned his ice with the team and has been a lineup regular since 2016-17. He had a productive 2022-23, but is it worth it to re-sign him? One of the toughest decisions that the New Jersey Devils may have to make with their free agents this offseason involves Miles Wood. Wood, the longest tenured Devils forward at this juncture, is set to become an unrestricted free agent who could command a decent contract on the open market. With money needing to be spent to re-sign some of the...

What will the Devils do with Jesper Bratt? | James Guillory-USA TODAY Sports Once again, Jesper Bratt is due a new contract. Will the Devils and Bratt finally agree to a long-term deal? The RFA and UFA player profiles continue on here at All About The Jersey. Last week, I wrote about Timo Meier and mentioned that he was arguably the most important Devils player to hit RFA status this offseason. While I believe that to be true, Jesper Bratt is the one other RFA for the Devils who might have something to say about that. Bratt had another quality season in 2022-23, proving...

Associate coach Andrew Brunette of the New Jersey Devils works the bench against the New York Islanders at the Prudential Center on December 09, 2022 in Newark, New Jersey. | Photo by Bruce Bennett/ New Jersey Devils & Related Hockey Links for 5/31/23 Here are your links for today: Devils Links Looks like Andrew Brunette is headed to Nashville: **Breaking News** I’m told, the ⁦@PredsNHL⁩ are making a change behind the bench, and one time Predator Andrew Brunette will be their new HC in Music City. ⁦@espn⁩ ⁦@NHL⁩ ⁦@NHLNetwork⁩ ⁦@TSNHockey⁩...

Andrew Brunette will be behind the bench in Nashville next season. | Photo by Joel Auerbach/ Kevin Weekes broke the news today that the Nashville Predators hired Andrew Brunette to be their head coach. This post is a reaction to the news, points out how much better the power play was under Brunette compared to Recchi, and names Sarge as a potential option to fill the now open position. Today, Kevin Weekes of ESPN went out, stood in front of a fountain in West New York, and announced some breaking news. Andrew Brunette has been hired by the Nashville Predators to be...

Danny Nelson will be likely be celebrating on draft day. | Photo by Jari Pestelacci/Eurasia Sport Images/ Danny Nelson is a defenseman turned forward with a strong east west game and forechecking ability and a knack for scoring goals. Could he be the player selected by the Devils in the 2nd round? Who is Danny Nelson? Danny Nelson was born on August 3, 2005 in Maple grove, Minnesota. A 6’3 forward/defenseman in the USNTDP, Nelson has committed to play at the University of Notre Dame next season where he will join his brother Henry Nelson, an undrafted 20-year-old...

Photo by Andrew Mordzynski/Icon Sportswire via Tomas Tatar had a very good rebound season for the Devils, bouncing back in scoring and on-ice impacts, though he also had another underwhelming postseason. Is there a deal that makes sense to keep the veteran winger in New Jersey? The Devils will have a number of tough decisions to make this summer with pending UFAs as they seek to bridge the gap between the present and future at a number of positions. This will be particularly true with their pending free agent defensemen, but at the forward position, one of the trickier...

Timo Meier #96 of the New Jersey Devils walks to the locker room after the end of the second period during a game against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game Four of the Second Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Prudential Center on May 09, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. | Photo by Michael Mooney/NHLI via New Jersey Devils & Related Hockey Links for 5/29/23 Here are your links for today: Devils Links “On paper, there aren’t many holes on this Devils roster. Their core is set up front with Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt, and Nico Hischier. Their blue line may look...

Jaden Lipinski looks on to the 2023 NHL Draft | Photo by Dennis Pajot/ Jaden Lipinski is from Scottsdale, Arizona; got a contract from the Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League; and worked his way up in 2022-23 to potentially hear his name in the 2023 NHL Draft. Learn more about him with this post. While Arizona’s NHL team appears to be in dire straits, the growth of hockey in Arizona has continued onward. Sure, a stud prospect like Auston Matthews can come from anywhere. But more and more developing players have come from that state. Some have hit big like...

Photo by Andrew Mordzynski/Icon Sportswire via Today in our ongoing free agent coverage here at AATJ, let’s take a look at Kevin Bahl, who is set to become a restricted free agent. Should he be brought back, what is his value, and where does he fit in? The New Jersey Devils have numerous players this year who are set to become restricted free agents. Only one restricted free agent from the active roster, however, is a defenseman, and that is Kevin Bahl. With Damon Severson and Ryan Graves also set to become unrestricted free agents, Tom Fitzgerald has some work to...

Humble. Hard Working. Offense. Defense. Travis Zajac did it all in his time as a New Jersey Devil. But he never won a Cup. | Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports So many great New Jersey Devils players came and went without lifting Lord Stanley’s Cup in the Garden State. But who was the best ever? The New Jersey Devils franchise has three Stanley Cup victories to its credit. We know them all. They might as well be tattooed on our foreheads, but for those of you maybe born after 2003, they are 1995, 2000 and 2003. So we know the greats who played for those teams. Many of...