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If I had a nickel for every time I've heard playoff prognosticators discuss the importance of a team entering the playoffs on a hot streak, well, I probably wouldn't be staring down a microwave burrito for lunch right now. In any sport, people place ...

One glance from Manhattan across the Hudson River is all it takes to be reminded of how a slow start can trash lofty NHL expectations. Three games into their 2010-11 season the New Jersey Devils were still searching for their first win after inking t...

There may be no fan base more a ready to put last season behind them than that of the New Jersey Devils. What started as a season of optimism and wild expectations, quickly plummeted into a pit of salary-cap constraints, injuries, firings and abject ...

The opponent, the New Jersey Devils, almost doesn't matter. The Rangers need points any way they can get them. With Carolina's win last night it comes down to this: The Blueshirts need to finish the day with more points than the Canes. Picking up ...

Six points. After upping their most recent winning streak to three games, the New Jersey Devils are just six points away from the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. And they have a game in hand on the eighth place Buffalo Sabres. It'...

While most of the "hot team" talk has been devoted to the suddenly surging New Jersey Devils, the New York Islanders have made a similar push, winning five of their last six games en route to a 7-3-0 record in February. The Isles will look to continu...

Do you believe in unlikelihoods? After the disastrous start to the season by the New Jersey Devils, we've mentioned several times that the boys from Newark would need to mount an epic winning streak to put themselves back in the playoff picture. W...

Rangers head coach John Tortorella has seldom hesitated in speaking his mind, and last Friday he rebuked Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Guy Boucher for comments the Bolts' bench boss made after his team was clipped twice by the suddenly streaking New...

The NHL released the full rosters for the upcoming All-Star game in Raleigh, N.C. on Jan. 30, with the New York Rangers' Marc Staal and Henrik Lundqvist both included on the list. It's the first selection for Staal, the Rangers' first-round pick i...

If you feel a chill out near the Mets' home park, it's not the lingering presence of Luis Castillo's bat. According to speculation in SportsBusiness Journal yesterday and today in New York Magazine, Gary Bettman is considering Citi Field, along with ...

The New Jersey Devils finally made a significant move to address their point-starved, cap-crunched roster, placing veteran forward Brian Rolston on waivers Tuesday. And given the reaction of GM Lou Lamoriello, it was not a move he at all wanted to ma...

The New Jersey Devils just can't seem to stay off of losing streaks. Here's what to watch for tonight as they try to halt their most recent skid at two games. Wounded Knee Evgeni Malkin sat out the Penguins' Saturday slamming of the Columbus Blu...

Recap | Box score For the first time this season the New Jersey Devils dominated an opponent from start to finish, mopping the ice with the league-leading Washington Capitals 5-0 at Prudential Center on Monday night. The sprightly play of rooki...

There is such a thing as a must-win game in November. And for the foundering New Jersey Devils, tonight's contest against the Edmonton Oilers is exactly that. If the Devils can't upend the upstart Oilers, who lost their previous two games to the C...

Three months. That's how long the New Jersey Devils, a team struggling to put the puck in the net, will be without last season's top scorer, Zach Parise. Averaging just 1.5 goals per game, New Jersey already needed someone to step up their offense...

The New Jersey Devils will start the season with just 20 players on their NHL roster, but met the 3 p.m. Wednesday deadline to get underneath the salary cap without giving up any of their players to other teams. Both D Bryce Salvador and D Anssi S...