The New Jersey Devils had a massively disappointing 2023-2024 season, and a large part of that was due to the regression of captain Nico Hischier, who is now working on his game by playing in the IIHF World Championships with Switzerland, and he had a scary moment on Monday against Team Czechia when he drove to the net and lost his footing.
According to the former New Jersey Devils forward, Russian superstar Ilya Kovalchuk is contemplating retirement. Kovalchuk, 41, explained in a video interview that he believes he’s skated in his last game.
The prospect profile series continues with Sam Dickinson, a low risk, high reward defenseman, who is almost NHL-ready, but will he be there when the Devils select?
On Monday, for the second time in his decorated playing career, former New Jersey Devils forward Nikita Gusev won the KHL Golden Stick Award, granted to the league’s most valuable player.
Injuries mounted for the New Jersey Devils in the 2023-24 season. It’s one of the reasons why the Devils had such a setback last season after collecting 112 points in 2022-23.
The World Championship tournament in Czechia has been underway for the past few days and the games are coming in fast. Day one was busy for the Devils, and over the past few days, all but Nico Daws have now made an appearance for their country.
When General Manager Tom Fitzgerald said he wanted to take his time finding a head coach for the New Jersey Devils, he clearly meant what he said. The Devils GM has interviewed a long list of coaching candidates, and according to a new report, there’s a new leading candidate.
The New Jersey Devils are still looking for a head coach. During his end-of-year presser, team President and General Manager Tom Fitzgerald stated what he wants in a head coach to guide this team back to a Stanley Cup.
Day one of the IIHF Men’s World Championship was underway in Czechia, with six Devils in action. The yearly tournament, which takes place in the Czech cities of Prague and Ostrava, will see eight different Devils participate.
When the New Jersey Devils became locked in at 10th overall in the 2024 NHL Draft at Tuesday’s lottery, it raised more questions than answers. The Devils are one of the youngest teams in the NHL and are on the brink of turning into a perennial playoff team.
I only last about two or three weeks before bringing up goaltending again. Apologies. I spent most of last offseason discussing goaltending. I repeatedly said that the New Jersey Devils needed to upgrade the position because of how poorly Vitek Vanecek stumbled down the stretch and into the playoffs in 2022-2023.
The lottery balls didn’t fall the way of the New Jersey Devils like they had in 2017, 2019, and 2022. However, the silver lining to a disappointing and disheartening 2023-24 season sees the Devils selecting 10th in June’s NHL Draft.
The NHL announced that New Jersey Devils rookie defenseman Luke Hughes was named a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy, awarded “to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition.” Hughes joins the Chicago Blackhawks’ Connor Bedard and the Minnesota Wild’s Brock Faber on the list of finalists.
Could the Devils make a play for Sheldon Keefe?
Welcome to another edition of NHL Rumours! The Stanley Cup Playoffs are underway, as it is in the second round. However, the offseason does not stop and teams that are not in the mix are turning towards next season.
It’s almost time for the annual IIHF World Championships, where the best hockey nations in the world will compete in a 16-day-long tournament in hopes of reaching gold.
Alexander Holtz, a New Jersey Devils’ former seventh overall draft selection (2020), has mostly struggled to find his footing in the league. For the first time in his career, he was finally able to latch onto a full-time NHL role – one of only five Devils to skate in all 82 games in 2023-24.
New Jersey Devils President and General Manager Tom Fitzgerald and Devils’ Assistant General Manager and Utica Comets General Manager Dan MacKinnon announced that the club has re-signed unrestricted free-agent forward Nathan Légaré to a one-year, two-way contract.
Some early-offseason work for Tom Fitzgerald has been completed. On Tuesday, the New Jersey Devils re-signed forward Max Willman to a one-year, two-way contract with an AAV of $775,000.
The New Jersey Devils were fully expecting to still be playing hockey in May of 2024 after an excellent 2022-23 campaign that saw the team finish third in regular-season standings and beat the favored New York Rangers in Round 1.
The New Jersey Devils need a new head coach. Talks have intensified over the weeks and days since the end of the regulation season with Craig Berube. Berube is working on the TNT Panel but has commented on the Devils play this season.
The Senators are expected to finalize Travis Green as their next head coach, TSN’s Darren Dreger reports. Green finished 2023-24 as the interim head coach for the Devils, who fired Lindy Ruff four days before the trade deadline in a last-ditch effort to make the playoffs.
The New Jersey Devils have announced that they have signed defenseman Seamus Casey to a three-year entry-level contract and goaltender Jakub Malek to a two-year entry-level deal; the Devils drafted both players as Casey was the Devils second-round pick in 2022, and Malek was selected in the fourth round by New Jersey the year prior.
New Jersey Devils President and General Manager Tom Fitzgerald announced that the club has agreed to terms with goaltender Jakub Malek on a two-year, entry-level contract beginning in the 2024-25 season.
Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations and general manager Kyle Dubas addressed speculation regarding head coach Mike Sullivan possibly leaving the organization to join the New Jersey Devils this offseason.
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