"Devils limited to 15 skaters today because of cap issues. Welcome to the Kovalchuk era!!"-10/11/10 EJHradek_ESPN
"Whatever his reason, John MacLean has put himself square on the spot by benching his best scorer and then losing 6-1 and an irrelevant goal."-10/23/10 StanFischler
"In my defense on NJ tonight, I didn't expect Kovalchuk to be a "healthy scratch" or the franchise to have a meltdown. WOW!"-10/23/10 EJHradek_ESPN
"Scary stat of week: Devils have given up 19 more goals than they have scored this season. Not since 88-89 has NJ been out-scored in a season"-10/31/10 kausatoday (Kevin Allen)
"Zach Parise will under go exploratory arthroscopic knee surgery. No timetable has been set for his return."-11/1/10 NHLDevils
"Jason Arnott: "We're digging ourselves a hole. A huge hole... If we don't turn this around it'll be real hard to (make playoffs)."" 11/2/10 Ledger_NJDevils (Rich Chere)
"Brodeur worry missing playoffs? "Oh, definitely. It's one thing to slide, but we're putting ourselves behind 8 ball. Formula for disaster.""-11/2/10 Ledger_NJDevils (Rich Chere)
Stats (13 games in) *G-A-P (+/-)*:
Danius Zubrus 1-6-7 (-5)
Ilya Kovalchuk 3-3-6 (-5)
Jason Arnott 3-3-6 (-9)
Zac Parise 3-3-6 (-1)
Matt Taormina 3-2-5 (-2)
Patrik Elias 2-3-5 (-10)
Jamie Langenbrunner 1-4-5 (-8)
Travis Zajac 1-3-4 (0)
Andy Greene 1-3-4 (-11)
Matthew Corrente 0-3-3 (-1)
Henrik Tallinder 1-1-2 (-5)
David Clarkson 1-1-2 (-8)
Rod Pelly 0-1-1 (-1)
Martin Brodeur 3-8-1 2.79 GAA .902% 2 SO
Johnan Herberg 0-1 7.50 GAA .750%
I thought this was supossed to be a new era? I thought the signing of Kovalchuk was supossed to make this team upstoppable scoring machine? Where's the defense that the Devils were founded on? Is this a rebuild season and no one told the fans?
Now as the month of November starts, the Devils are in the basement. This is the worse hockey I've seen this team play since I became a fan in 1994. Every night when there's a game, I just hope they are going to stop the bleeding. Then suddenly they are losing 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 and it's another loss in the standings.
This might just be the worse month since the 80s for this franchise. So who's the blame? John MacLean? I can't blame him, he's in a fucked up situation right now. Marty Brodeur? He's doing all he can to keep the Devils in games every night. Lou? Well part of the blame can be put on him, but he's doing what he has to do to keep this franchise together.
How bout the $100 million man Kovi? He hasn't done anything in the last four games when they needed him. How about the franchise leading scorer Elias? He has does nothing all season. The young defense? They are kids playing against the NHL elite, you can't blame the other teams for taking advantage of that.
I am speechless for how bad this team looks right now, is it time to hit the panic button?
As of right now, YES. Because if they don't write the ship, The Rock will be dark in April and May.
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