With the start of a new hockey season upon us, we’ll let this simple Devils’ update be my start of the blogging season…
NJ Devils opened their training camp with 3 big forward positions to fill. The loss of Brian Gionta, John Madden, and Mike Rupp have created vacancies for some young players such as Nicholas Bergfors, Patrice Cormier and Rod Pelley.
In a surprise move the Devils have in camp heavyweight enforcer Andrew Peters (Buffalo). He was wearing #25 today in camp so I’ll guess will see this Donald Brashear antagonist is Devils’ red come October. He is not there to be sent to the AHL or for his gifted scoring touch.
Devils’ GM, Lou Lamoriello, has always been a fan of NHL heavyweights, and has now created an interesting situation since it looked like the loss of Mike Rupp (Free Agent to Pittsburgh) was going to be filled by the Devils’ own young tough-guy, Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond (PL3). Looks like there will be a fight for who is the Devils’ fighter.
For those of you who haven’t been following, the Devils’ backup goaltender this year will be Yann Danis (Islanders in 2008-2009)
And on a final note worth mentioning, Devils’ all-time leading scorer, Patrik Elias, is nursing an injured groin, which was operated on during the summer. New Devils’ head coach Jacques Lemaire had spoken about using Patrik at 2nd line center, but now it looks like he may not be ready for the team’s opener on October 3rd. If Elias’ injury turns out to be serious, look for another young player to make the squad and look for the Devils’ to struggle to score goals. More to come on this next blog!
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