It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, Unless You’ve Been Naughty

Now that it’s after Thanksgiving, that means it’s full-time Christmas Season! WOOOO! It also means the quarter mark of the NHL season has passed, so Santa has a substantial enough body of work to assess when he makes his list of which Devils have been naughty and which have been nice. Sure, he’s still got [...]

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BOWLING!!! (Made You Look)

Last night the IPB PandoPhone’s red light blinked cheerily. It seems we had a new message! A message from an IPB reader and harbinger of Pando goodness, one Cammy from New Jersey. Eagle-eyed Cammy discovered a special event had gone down recently in Boston that we must hear about. A special event involving Pando. A [...]

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Project Bicycle Spoke: Brian Gionta

This is the 23rd in our summer series in which we are drawing hockey cards at random from a box and then writing about them. Ten Trades We’d Make Involving Brian Gionta 1. Brian Gionta to the NHL League Offices for the Devils to play closer to our house, with more affordable ticket prices and [...]

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Burning A Hole In Their Pockets: The True Per Diem Story Of The New Jersey Devils

We were driven today to the outer edges of sheer boredom, and did something that only the most desperate of hockey fans should ever do — we read the CBA. Some people read the CBA and come out of it with a clearer understanding of the financial picture of the NHL. Others walk away shaking [...]

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New Jersey’s Next Top Devil

Tonight marks one of the most anticipated events of the hockey season here at stately IPB Manor. Gentle Reader, you’re probably scratching your head and thinking, “Whatever is it that could be a significant event in the NHL at this time of year? Surely the -ookies wouldn’t get excited for Forsberg’s triumphant return or Ovie’s [...]

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IPB Suggests Some Crazy Good Trades

Several years ago, when the Sabres were in the midst of a goaltending controversy, we stumbled across a trade suggested by a fan on the interwebs. This well-reasoned, highly-plausible proposal was as follows: The Sabres would trade Ryan Miller and Martin Biron to the Devils for Martin Brodeur and Colin White. The fan explained that [...]

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Devils vs. Lightning Game 1

Devils 5 Lightning 3 Let’s revisit, for a moment, our “ifs” from our prediction post: If Patrik Elias’s heart can grow three sizes, back to where it was last year when he came back from the Hep, if Gionta can find his hidden store of scoring sticks rather than the slumping sticks he’s been using [...]

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