The season has just barely begun and the New Jersey Devils are already starting to make the beginning half of last season a distant memory. It has been beaten to death, the disappointment and gruesome play that plagued the Devils early in the 2010-2011 season so there is no sense in rehashing painful recollections of a season past sans playoff competition.
However, it is important to note that the Devils have taken great strides towards becoming everything that last year’s squad was not. Though a relatively small sample of play to judge upon, it seems that defense, as has been the tradition in the Garden State, is the key to winning for the Devils once again as the 2011-2012 season rolls on.
It was a Saturday evening in Atlanta on December 18, 2010. The reeling Devils were trying desperately to turn around a season that was quickly approaching hopeless. The visiting Devils and every one of their fans could feel this could be the beginning of a turn around against a Thrasher's squad quickly falling from its early season precipice.
And just like that, the final horn sounded and the Devils sauntered off the ice wallowing in what can only be d ...
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