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I would love to hear how exactly the Devils benefit from having a larger fanbase in Europe. It's not like there's droves of Europeans coming to NJ to see the Devils play and I doubt tons of them buy our merchandise either. From what I see, it seems that most of the Europeans that are interested in the NHL and a particular team, is because they like to follow their countrymen who are playing. So yeah, we lose 2 games, but we also have the team dealing with two difficult time adjustments when they head there and head back that may affest their play in the games right after they come back, all for what I believe is questionable gains.

Lou would never allow this to happen and I agree with him. It's nothing but a gimmick and I could care less about the team playing overseas. What exactly is the point of it? I don't give a rat's ass about growing the fanbase of the Devils or the NHL in Europe and I'd be pretty disappointed to have our season opener taken away so that some Swedes can see some guys from their country play in the NHL.

I don't think so. He was a 7th round pick IIRC and there's not a whole lot of those that make it to the NHL and I haven't heard anything about him that tells me that he'll be the one in a million that does make it.

I think this will be the case. Corrente has had a few chances to show he's made progress and is ready for primetime in the NHL, but he's so far failed to do so. I think that unless he's shown the team something big during camp, it's time to move him out. He along with a couple others could easily be moved for a few draft picks, which would resolve the issue of having too many contracts on the books.

Well if the reason why Richards was shipped out was really due to him and Carter being party boys and causing issues in the locker room, I can't imagine that being in LA will all of a sudden make him become more mature. I see Richards as having a pretty lackluster year in LA, so that could hurt them this year.

I think Kovy can easily bounce back and net around 40 goals and 80pts on the year. Although, with Zajac out, either Parise or Kovy is going to play with a lesser centerman than they would have if Zajac was healthy, so I don't think we're going to see both of these guys have huge seasons. It seems as if DeBoer is going to play Elias with Parise, so Kovy is going to have to play without a proven centerman as he'll probably be playing with Josefson or maybe Zubrus depending on how things pan out. Josefson hasn't proven yet that he can be a top 6 player and be a set up man for a top notch sniper like Kovy and Zubrus, despite being a versatile player, has proven that he isn't a top 6 caliber player, so he won't do much to elevate Kovy's game. Kovy did play well on a line with Zajac and Palmieri last year and it's very possible he'll be playing with Palmieri again this year, so if Josefson can gel with the two of them, he could have a really good year and Kovy isn't a player that's desperately needed a top quality playmaker to allow him to put up point per game numbers in the past, so hopefully even if Josefson doesn't have a breakout season, Kovy can at least get back to the form he's shown in past seasons. As I see it, the top two lines should look something like this: Parise-Elias-Tedenby Kovy-Josefson-Palmieri You can probably insert Zubrus in there at center or right wing on either of those lines if things aren't working out and Bernier or Sykora could see time on the top two lines IF(this is a BIG IF) they make the team AND if the youngsters don't play well enough. I just can't imagine that Elias will be centering Kovy since Josefson has been really sound positionally and defensively and that will help mask some of Kovy's flaws defensively. The same goes for Tedenby, with Elias and Parise making up for any mistakes he might make. You just can't have both Kovy and Tedenby or both of the youngsters Josefson and Tedenby on the same lines as this would be too much of a liability on defense. Ok, this is the end of my novel.

I agree with everyone who says this start time is a bit ridiculous. Even though it is a federal holiday, many companies don't give their employees a day off and it's still a Monday, so starting it at 1pm is really early for a sporting event. All these things considered, it really is the perfect game to bring the family to if you have younger kids because as I said earlier, you can eat lunch at a restaurant around the arena, catch the game and make it home all before the time most people have dinner. It's a pretty good discount on the tickets as it allows a family of 4 to go for $100, which would include 4 $10 Food/Beverage cards, making an extra expenditure on food unnecessary. It's pretty hard to take out the entire family to go do ANYTHING for $100, much less see a sporting event. I mean, even going to the movies for a family of 4 costs $40-50 just for tickets, with popcorn/candy and soda, it's more like $75. If you take your family out for dinner afterward, you're gonna spend about another $50 there for 4 people, making your total cost for the night well over the $100 you'll spend on seeing the game on Columbus Day.

I agree with the intentional hits to the head having no place in the game, but I tend to agree with Marty in that I'm concerned about the league heading in a direction that will punish the players for ANY hit to the head. This is hockey and rule #1 is keep your head up and if they take out the risk of being hit in the head with a clean north-south hit, what will be the point of keeping your head up? Guys will be able to pay attention to the puck alone and start figure skating around without worrying about getting drilled. I like the hits and I think it's your own damn fault if you get drilled in the head if you weren't looking, it's part of the game. On Wisniewski's suspension, that hit did look as if he tried to go for the guy's head, but the other player was also making himself kinda small and hitting him without making contact with his head most likely would have been difficult.

Man, you guys are so negative, lol. I'm not sure if I'll bother to go to this either though. I'm not too big on the afternoon games, especially the really early ones like this one is at 1pm. It is a good deal with the $10 food card when you spend $25, not bad if you want to take the family to see the game, especially if you have younger kids since you can catch the game and be home in time for dinner instead of getting home at 11-12 at night.

Got an email about the 10/10 game, which is "Youth Hockey Day", tix for $20 or if you get the $25 tix, you get a free $10 food/beverage card. Game is at 1pm, but it's also Columbus Day, so I'm sure many of you will not have to work. Just thought I'd share. Here's the link https://oss.ticketmaster.com/html/group_corp_start.htmI?l=EN&team=devils&owner=310670&group=393&err=&event=&customerID= Special ticket code is: youth

I have comcast and I guess it's ok. My Dad's got directv and I find it far superior due to the fact that I don't have to search for the HD channels like I do with comcast since MSG is channel 30 something and the HD is 196, not sure what sense that makes. I like Directv having them as channel 2, then channel 2HD right after it, it's a lot easier. Not a huge deal, and I also hate that when I'm fastforwarding, there's no way to scale back the pace, you have to basically hit play then restart, Directv allows you to scale it back, which I found useful, again not a big deal, but it's indicative of how Directv is more user friendly than Comcast. Otherwise, channel selection is pretty much on par with Directv, but in the past couple years has this been true, Directv was way ahead of the HD game and had a lot of options before comcast did.

No surprise here. I got my money on Phailadelphia dropping in the standings this year quite a bit. I'm not so sure their younger guys will have as good a season as they did last year.

I think it's clear that the most deserving player is Elias. He was the only consistent player last season and he usually can be counted on for 65-75pts, he's solid defensively and imo, he's the most offensively creative player on this team, Kovy included. I'd say Patty for a few years and then Parise once he's locked down and gets a good playoff run under his belt.

This article was clearly manufactured by the way the questions were asked. Brodeur's not going anywhere. If he has a decent season this year and feels he has enough gas for one last go, Lou will sign him and Marty will play for a significant pay cut. If he has a bad season, he'll retire, there's no way he'll go anywhere. Montreal is the only other place I could imagine him wanting to go and they're not gonna sign him while they have a budding star goalie in Carey Price, what would be the point? And Marty won't do the backup thing, maybe a 1A, 1B thing, but definitely no backup deals. I foresee him getting back into form this year and while he may not have an outstanding season, it will be a good one and he will resign at very reasonable price for one last season and then he will retire a Devil's legend. P.S. For those that think Niedermayer doesn't deserve to have his number retired because he finished his career in Anaheim, would this also apply to Brodeur if he were to play somewhere else?

Both the documentary "Street Fight" and the TV show "Brick City" are real good. Brick City was a bit Booker happy the first season and the second season definitely gives you a more balanced look on him. Street Fight is a good representation of how the office was run in the Sharpe James era though, with just the way he treats the film maker and Booker throughout the election as proof of the type of guy he was and is.

I think it's an NHL reg that states he can't sign an extension until after the new year. Parise has been pretty consistent with saying how he wants to stay and Marty has alluded many times to the Devils being Parise's team now, so I don't know how big a factor having that kind of respect in the locker room is to him since he'd have to rebuild some of that if he left.

I agree. I know this is off topic, but while we're on a grim subject, I noticed your avatar, so have you seen the documentary "Senna" I saw a couple days ago, but everyone I talk to looks at me retarded when I mention F1. I just wanted to get at least one other persons perspective on it and I've had quite a difficult time finding anyone else who's seen it.

Well, maybe if we hadn't been fighting two useless wars, given tax cuts to the wealthy and poured ridiculous amounts of money into the defense budget, we wouldn't be as worried about SS or Medicare/Medicaid. Btw, not all of Europe is doing terrible right now, From what I've seen it's southern Europe that's been hurt the most, but some of Northern Europe, Germany, Sweden, Holland, isn't that bad off atm. I'm not looking for something for nothing with universal healthcare and free education, it's something that can be done and has been many times already. I'm not talking straight up tax paid for, true socialized medicine in the model of the UK, but maybe follow France, Japan or Germany's lead and require insurance companies to cover everyone with a basic plan and have the costs by a combo of employer and employee, but not have your benefits cut if you lose your job as the gov't would pick up the tab. This has been done and is PROVEN to be MORE cost effective than the way we do things. I believe the last stat I saw, the US spent something like 16-17% of our GDP on healthcare, while France spends only 11%, Germany 10% and Japan half of what we do at 8%. It's obvious they found a more efficient system to run healthcare with and I don't understand why we don't adopt one of their plans or a hybrid of their plans in the US. Just this week some guy died from a fvcking tooth infection because he couldn't afford dental care or antibiotics and that's just insanity, this should not happen in a first world country.

If the GOP wins back the presidency, I'm fleeing the country. The Republicans are insane and focus on cutting completely insignificant social programs while ignoring that the defense budget is a HUGE reason why we're in debt along with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Cut loose from the wars in the Middle East, Iraq will be able to deal by itself and it's pretty clear that the Afghans don't really care for our presence in their country and kicking in their doors in the middle of the night all the time. That's how we can save real money, not cutting NPR....

I agree that 90% of the GOP field is either crazy or just spouting out garbage that sits inline with the establishment Republicans ideals. Ron Paul is an anomaly of mammoth proportions. I love that he doesn't change his stance if it's not quite mainstream, i.e. his stance of drug prohibition and how people chuckled at him when he said that even drugs like heroin should be legalized, which I agree 100% with since the "War on Drugs" is unwinnable and a giant money pit. It however keeps a lot of people employed, such as the entire DEA, a big percentage of local and federal police units that would become unnecessary should the drug war not need to be fought anymore. However, I'm not too big on Ron Paul when it comes to a lot of other issues since I don't agree that gov't role in society and life should be as minimal as possible. The GOP believes that we need to cut back on social programs such as SS and Medicare/Medicaid, which is insane, although many people don't think so because they don't seem to realize being on SS or Medicaid is being enrolled in a gov't program.... Why would we want to peel away at some of the best legislation ever passed in this country under one of the greatest presidents of all time in FDR? Why is this country dealing with healthcare costs that far exceed every other developed nation? Why does this first world country have to deal with such a third world problem? It's nuts. "Obamacare" is nothing but a bandaid, it's a step in the right direction, but we need true universal healthcare, which does not mean "socialized medicine" as the right might like you to think. Universal healthcare still allows room for private companies to run independent of the gov't and there's still money to be made. Why do Japanese people see a doctor 3X as much as Americans do and have an older population than we do and live longer than we do, yet spend less on healthcare? Obama's wavering on these issues, such not implementing true universal healthcare, pussying out of every negotiation with Republicans and allowing them to have their way in hopes they'll return the favor later? I hope that Obama, assuming he wins the next election, will finally act like a real Democrat and not the half assed one he's been acting like since he got elected. If all residents of the E.U. have free or nearly free healthcare and get to go to college for extremely little to no money, I want that too and I sure as sh!t do not see a reason why I can't have these things.

There's nothing you can do about the d boys being out all day everyday. Newark is the heroin mecca of the Eastern Seaboard and there's far too much money to be made for them to just leave. I mean seriously, just take a look next time you're on the side of broad street that is opposite the Pru Center, it's absolutely covered with empty heroin stamp baggies. You can remove them from an area, but they will always persist, it's just something you have to deal with being a city with the largest seaport on the East Coast. The only reason this is news is because it's scaring white people away from the businesses. You don't hear anybody mention this sh!t going on a few blocks away on Elizabeth/Clinton Ave because there's no white people there.

I don't know what I'm going to do without Doc calling the games. He's called just about every game I can remember watching on TV, minus Gary Thorne on ESPN, but his voice is the voice of the Devils for me and anybody else is just not going to sound right to me. I'm honestly quite distraught about this.

I think there needs to be more time and research put into this before anyone makes any drastic changes to the game. The real question is whether these guys had depression for quite some time or if it was caused by the degeneration of the brain from multiple blows to the head and I've not seen any CONCLUSIVE evidence of this. I personally do not think fighting should ever be removed from the game of hockey, it's part of the sport and to remove it would be to fundamentally change the game. I think a more paramount issue is guys who are on the ice to fight and to fight alone i.e. Andrew Peters, who I swear never had the puck on his stick for more than 5 seconds during his entire stint with the team. These guys are built to fight and nothing more, but a guy like Rupp, Clarkson or a Salvador who can actually play hockey proficiently, I don't see anything wrong with them fighting on occasion since they're not just purpose built bruisers, they're hockey players that can also fight.

When Zajac comes back, he'll play with Parise no matter what. He played ok with Kovy last year, but nothing like he has played with Zach, plus Elias plays well no matter who his linemates are and having both him and Kovy on one line will open up space for both of them. I also don't see Henrique getting time in at center right off the bat, so I think he'll start at the wing like he'd been playing down in Albany. So I think the lines will look more like this: Parise-Elias-Tedenby Kovalchuk-Josefson-Palmieri Henrique-Zubrus-Clarkson Boulton-Steckel-Zharkov *Pelley&Jansson as scratches Josefson and Zubrus might get switched up depending on their play and to put Josefson and Henrique together like they had been in Albany where they played well as their top line. Volchenkov-Greene Tallinder-Fayne Salvador-Taormina/Larsson/Urbom(Possible, but unlikely)

I'd imagine the lines are: Volchenkov-Greene Tallinder-Fayne Salvador, Taormina, Larsson, Urbom, Corrente or whoever earns it will get the 5 and 6 spots.