Wait! We Remember Now!

Literally the instant we hit “Publish” on this doozy of a post, Pookie remembered — kind of — what we wanted to write about: We were discussing how Edmonton and Calgary could both have seceded from the NHL without us noticing this year, and Pookie marveled at how she was only discovering right then that [...]

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Another Devils Season, Another Devils Coach

After an afternoon of contemplating the news out of Newark today, here’s our official stance on Sutter’s decision to step down as head coach of the Devils: Meh. A big, fat, hairy “meh”. Or, since it’s Sutter we’re talking about, a “meh” that looks like Edward Gorey’s Beastly Baby. In any event, the whole thing [...]

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Wherein We Come From Mitch & Murray With A Message For The Devils

We’ve been feeling for the last 48 hours somewhat disconnected from our peers in the Diablogosphere because, well, we’re not stunned and horrified by what happened to the Devils in Game 7 against Carolina. Sure, there’s no question it’s a terrible and humiliating loss, but it’s also completely in character for the Devils. If it [...]

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Early April In A Devils Season: A Play In One Act Based On Actual Events

The scene: stately IPB Manor. Schnookie and Boomer are sitting in the living room watching a smorgasbord of hockey games while Pookie is in the next room cutting fabric for a quilt. It’s quiet. Schnookie absently flips from blog to blog on her laptop while paying only nominal attention to the TV. She reads the [...]

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Devils @ Penguins, 4/1/09 — Postgame Reaction

As the saying goes, fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice, shame on us. We spent two and a half hours that we’ll never get back on Monday night watching the continuation of the Devils’ rapid descent from Cup favorite to enormous pile of puke. We’re not making the same mistake tonight. We [...]

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The Root Of All Of The Devils Problems, or: Build-A-Cake Workshop

There are a lot of questions surrounding the Devils these days, but none more pressing than “how is it that a team of professionals can be this confused about how to play hockey?” Gentle Reader, it won’t surprise you that we, being the intrepid reporters we are, have gotten to the bottom of this story [...]

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Trendspotting: The Best 2008-2009 New Jersey Devils Season Preview On The Interwebs

With training camp starting this week, it seems as good a time as any to take a look at how the team shapes up heading into this season. Instead of doing an all-around season preview, we’ve decided to take the hard-hitting magnifying glass of IPB’s investigative team to each individual player listed on the Devils [...]

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