A bit behind on some of the latest New Jersey Devils news,so I'll get started with this post without any Pirate news for today.That is unless you think the signing of Jason Grilli from AAA is worth a post and in that case-sorry to disappoint.
The Devils have hired a new coach,added a player to the roster and Devils fans lost our announcer of the last twenty one seasons since our last Devils update.
The new bench boss of the Devils will be former Florida head coach Peter DeBoer.
The 43 year old DeBoer had spent the last three season in Miami with the Panthers before being fired at the end of last season.
DeBoer spent his previous coaching career in junior hockey with Kitchener and coached two current Devils there in David Clarkson and Mark Fraser.
I am kind of in the middle on the move being as I dont really remember much about DeBoer on the occasions that the Devils played Florida,so I am open minded on the hire.
I'll see how it goes as I cannot blame DeBoer for the Panthers being a bad team as they were before and likely after his tenure...
The Devils now will begin to hire a new announcer for their televsion broadcasts as Mike "Doc" Emrick will be moving on as the voice of the NHL on NBC and Versus.
This was not a Devils or MSG network decision as they had offered Emrick a contract extension to keep the best in the business with the Devils,but Emrick's age (65) and wish to reduce his travel schedule (Emrick lives in michigan) made Emrick decide to scale back the workload a bit,which one can easily understand.
Devils fans are going to miss having Emrick mostly to themselves,but he still can be heard and Emrick will always be a part of Devils history and the Devils family.
Thanks to Battlin' Bob for being the first person to tell me of this,although I got this letter in my inbox shortly after finding out from the Battler.
I will be doing a future post on Emrick down the road when time permits...
Now the question is= who replaces Emrick in an seemingly impossible task?
Unless a candidate comes in from out of town,it looks like the two most likely candidates are either Devils radio voice Matt Laughlin or TV pre-game host and Emrick fill in Steve Cangelosi.
Of those two,I would easily prefer Laughlin as Steve Cangelosi is not very good (in my opinion).
Actually with his screaming of "SCORE" which sounds more like "SCAR!",he actually is pretty annoying,although not Greg Brown level bad.
For that matter,I would not mind to see Cangelosi gone altogether to do Red Bull soccer or whatever it is he does otherwise with Laughlin/mystery candidate on the play by play and Christine Simpson as the host of the pre and post game shows .
The Devils signed Eric Boulton of Winnipeg to a head scratching two year deal worth 1.3 million over the two years.
This is one that I do not quite get coming so shortly after signing Cam Janssen,do the Devils really need two enforcers?
And even if so,is Boulton worth this contract?
I just do not see it.
Boulton scored six goals last season,three of them in one game against the Devils,perhaps the team did not see any other Boulton games????
The Devils also quietly folded their ECHL team,the Trenton Devils recently.
No real reason given,although I would guess money loss as Trenton was the only ECHL team owned by an NHL franchise...
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