soulartist23

I think the Devils will be better at producing offense from the blue line. Defensively however...well, needless to say some will be learning on the job and they will be making mistakes once in a while. Growing pains. But hey, you can't play in the NHL and get good without a chance to get experience, right? As for our offense, I think we will definitely be better.

I'm excited about Reid Boucher. Merril goes without saying obviously.

Good on Ian. Saw that on yahoo, very awesome to see a 12 year old set a much better example than some of the adults out there, like that miserable, selfish d-bag in the other video. Seriously, what kind of man does that to a woman at a baseball game?

.... I'm not gonna start a flame war. But I will say this; I'd rather not have to sort through a bazillion things I deem garbage from other teams I don't care about. So a sincere thank you to the ones who post new threads about Devils news.

While the Devils and Wings have roughly the same amount of cap space left, I don't see us outbidding them if it's going to come down to money. We have to resign Parise and sign Larsson. We pretty much still need to shed salary just to have leg room cap wise without adding someone else. Wings on the other hand, all they really need to do is sign a player who can replace what Ralfalski brought to their team. Then again, stranger things have happened. I remember Elias was lobbying for Kaberle last year. Maybe he's interested in playing for NJ and there's a verbel agreement in place until Lou can make the moves he needs to add him. Who knows?

If he's not overpaid and we manage to shed salary, I wouldn't mind Kaberle. Our defense needs the things he can bring. And regardless if Larsson makes the team, it may not be a bad thing to have an experienced puck moving guy to take the pressure off him for a couple years.

This'll be an interesting couple weeks...

smh. Really? I actually thought the charges were dropped since there was nothing said about it for a while. This is f***ing retarded.

Honestly I wouldn't mind him. If he's given the chance he could turn out to be really good.

They all look awkward, for the most part, I guess because most of them are young and still growing. Larsson and Hamilton seem to be the only ones who didn't, in my opinion. Hamilton looked pretty comfortable and seemed like he was having fun with it. Larsson didn't seem awkward but he did look kinda bored. I like the stick raise photo of him from the Devils website better.

I know I've said I don't really care who the coach is so long as he gets the team to play solid hockey and sticks around for more than a year. I stand by that. However, if Zach is made captain and Eaves is hired as coach, I think it would be less likely that Eaves would lose the room. Not to mention... from what you guys have posted about Eaves' experience, it seems he'd be more ready to coach in the NHL then MacLean was. Also, truth be told it didn't help last season that we had Langenbrunner, a coach killer, on our team. I don't think the MacLean debacle should deter the organization from selecting a rookie coach who is actually READY for the position. I mean, look at Boucher.

I'm not gonna lie, I have to wonder who the Versus/TSN draft show would've compared Larsson to had someone ahead of us had drafted him. Or who would've drafted him had we not snagged him. I find it hard to believe Larsson was compared to Salo after we drafted him when other people/websites compared him to Lidstrom initially.

I'm glad Hamilton didn't get chosen by the Flyers. I didn't want to hate him. Also, I'm kinda surprised at Murphy not being chosen yet. I know he's small and all and one dimensional, but his skills sorta make up for his weaknesses.

:D We got Larsson. This is AWESOME!!

Hard to believe the day is finally here. Pretty stoked.

My order based on who's left to us when we pick; Larsson Landeskog Couturier Hamilton