Devils Win! Devils Win! At Home!: Post-Game Reaction

Wow! The Devils just did the craziest thing — they won a game at home! Sure, it was against a fellow bottom-feeder, but beggars can’t be choosers. And baby steps. And all that stuff. It was a win! We have a few thoughts about tonight’s momentous event: – In the waning minutes of the third [...]

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Hey Look! Open Letters On A Mail Holiday! What Will We Think Of Next?

Dear NHL, Contrary to what you might think, Columbus Day is not a holiday that is widely observed by employers in the US. Perhaps some of the games scheduled today that featured two American teams could have been saved for any of the “no games scheduled” days later this season? Just a thought, The Ookies [...]

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Devils/Pens Post-Game Reaction

You know, when this season started, if you’d told us that our favorite series with any opponent in the league would be the one with the Pens, we would never have believed you. But as it’s shaken out, if we could have had 82 Devils/Pens games like the ones they’ve played so far this year, [...]

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Devils vs. Kings Postgame Reaction

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARF. We’re drunk. Also, we just finished watching the Devils/Kings game tonight. And because we always do our best writing when we’re drunk, let’s put pen to paper to assess the aftermath of this latest colossal suck-fest from our beloved team. First of all, the entire team, from those weird little rookies all the way [...]

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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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Well, That Sucked: A Devils/Kings Postgame Report

We are beginning to hope the Devils don’t get home ice in the playoffs. The end. P.S. Sutter needs to give a copy of the new rules — the new rules Shanny pushed during the lock-out when he was calling the Coffee Klatch That Saved Hockey — to Shanahan and Holik. They consistently take hooking [...]

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Devils vs. Lightning, 11/5/08 — Postgame Report

Things we liked about tonight’s game: 1. The defense looked, for the most part, pretty solid. As we write this in the moments immediately after finishing the game up, we can’t think of any specific examples of when the Devils played a defensive shift that made our eyeballs puke barbed-wire fireballs. In other words, we [...]

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