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Give the New Jersey Devils this: Even in the face of the inevitable, there is no quit in them. Down 4-0 to the Boston Bruins by the 3:06 mark of the second period Wednesday night, the Devils kept chipping away, and early in the third they had mad...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- It shouldn't be any kind of a shock at this point in the proceedings. Still, it always seems just a little incongruous to see Ilya Kovalchuk on the ice in the waning moments of a game in which the New Jersey Devils are protectin...

But this is the Devils' recipe for success. Take away one of the elements, the big, the little or the unexpected, and their chances of winning go down. But when the recipe is followed, well, they're a formidable group, writes Scott Burnside.

NEW YORK -- It looks like New Jersey Devils stars Ilya Kovalchuk and Zach Parise will be reunited for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final against the New York Rangers on Wednesday night. The two have played on separate lines for most of the pos...

PHILADELPHIA -- An uphill battle against a potent Philadelphia Flyers team just got significantly steeper for the New Jersey Devils, who will be without Ilya Kovalchuk for Game 2 of their second-round series Tuesday night. Kovalchuk has what Devil...

Scott Burnside previews five guys looking to shake the playoff monkey from their backs for the 2012 NHL postseason.

As we rush into the second quarter of this no-longer-young NHL season, a number of burning questions present themselves. Well, five, to be exact: 1. What will happen to the big boys: Shea Weber, Ryan Suter and Zach Parise?No three players will...

1. Devils' struggles more than KovalchukNo one is saying much about the actual reason $100 million man Ilya Kovalchuk watched from the press box during Saturday's 6-1 throttling at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres, but the writing is on the wall early...

1. Devils' struggles more than KovalchukNo one is saying much about the actual reason $100 million man Ilya Kovalchuk watched from the press box during Saturday's 6-1 throttling at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres, but the writing is on the wall early...

NEWARK, N.J. -- Who stays, who goes? It has been the training camp mantra for as long as there's been ice on the pond and too many guys and not enough sticks. But this fall in New Jersey, it's more like who can afford to stay and who is too exp...

NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Devils rookie coach John MacLean is moving ahead with his line combinations regardless of who may be with the team in a week or two. "As far as us as coaches, we're ready for whatever combinations," MacLean said. "Right ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Devils rookie coach John MacLean is moving ahead with his line combinations regardless of who may be with the team in a week or two. "As far as us as coaches, we're ready for whatever combinations," MacLean said. "Right ...

NEWARK, N.J. -- Who stays, who goes? It has been the training camp mantra for as long as there's been ice on the pond and too many guys and not enough sticks. But this fall in New Jersey, it's more like who can afford to stay and who is too exp...

So is there anyone who isn't at least moderately happy at the end of this Ilya Kovalchuk marathon of extensions?Anyone?The New Jersey Devils (or, at the very least, their owner) are happy because Kovalchuk is a Devil essentially for life with th...

So is there anyone who isn't at least moderately happy at the end of this Ilya Kovalchuk marathon of extensions?Anyone?The New Jersey Devils (or, at the very least, their owner) are happy because Kovalchuk is a Devil essentially for life with th...

Whew. For a minute there, we thought this whole Ilya Kovalchuk thing was going to be over.Now, with the NHL and NHL Players' Association agreeing to extend Wednesday's deadline for accepting or rejecting the new 15-year, $100-million pact o...