It’s been an exciting offseason for the New Jersey Devils. After adding Jack Hughes, Nikita Gusev, Jesper Boqvist, and Wayne Simmonds to the NHL roster there’s much more roster flexibility than Devils fans or the organization are used to.
Flexibility and depth are great things to have on an NHL roster, but there can be such a thing as trying to do too much. That’s exactly how it looks about the potential of splitting up the Hall-Hischier-Palmieri line, at least to start the year.
First, let’s talk about how good these three have been over the past two years.