Oh, the memories.

Remember back in the beginning of the season, before half the team missed a million games due to injury? Remember how good Zajac was in his rookie year? Or how great Greene was in both his first regular season and playoff games? What about the debute of David Clarkson? And who could forget Marty breaking the wins record, in the arena of the team who's ex-goalie set it? And there's Parise, who lead the team in goals in the regular season and through the first round of the playoffs, and was second in scoring in the regular season, and third in the playoffs. Parise's stellar sophmore season is what earned him the spot as my second Devil of the week. Actually, it was the fact that I somehow skipped this week when I was setting up who I would do when (I get bored in detention) and just figured I'd use the player for next week. Either way, it's Parise's week this week.
*Side note: a friend of mine wanted to start a blog, and wanted me to help with it, so I just invited him to write here. He'll start writing soon. Possibly.*

Height: 5' 11"
Wight: 190
Position: Center/Left Wing
Birthday: July 27, 1984
Shoots: Left
From: Fairbault, Minnesota

2006/07 Season:
Team: Devils
Games played: 82
Goals: 31
Assists: 31
PIMs: 30
PPG: 9
SHG: 0
GWG: 7
+/-: -3

2006/07 Playoffs:
Team: Devils
Games played: 11
Goals: 7
Assists: 3
PIMs: 8
PPG: 2
SHG: 0
GWG: 1
+/-: +4

This kid is just plain awesome. He's gonna be like, the Scott Stevens or Marty Brodeur of offense. Ok, Maybe not that good, but hopefully, he'll keep getting better.

Poor Sabres.

Ryan Miller: 31/32 Saves
ray emery: 15/15 saves (not bolded for a good reason)

Do you see anything wrong with this? As in round 2, emery has about 15-20 saves, and comes out looking like a hockey God, while the other goalie, who has about twice as many saves looks like crap. I really don't think that's fair at all. Maybe the Sabres can play like they did in the regular season and win the next four. As fun as it would be to see the sens lose in the finals (I hold grudges. I'll probably still hate them in 5 seasons, even if we win every game against them until then), I think the Sabres deserve the Cup more. Scratch that. Miller deserves the cup. As with the Devils, it's the goalie (Marty) and a few forwards who really deserve it. With the sens, it's their defense that's really doing all the work. If they weren't there clearing the puck everytime it got within 10 feet of emery and he wasn't able to cover it, I doubt they would have been able to take even one game from the Devils, let alone the Sabres or Penguis. Basically, it sucks, and it's just not fair. Yeah, it looks better to be eliminated my the team that wins the cup than to have them eliminated, but come on. The senators deserved maybe two or three games that they won, four max.

Zajac, and moment number 4.

It should really be "Moment Number 4 and Zajac," but do I care? No, I don't. Here we go.

Moment number Scott Stevens is the pre-season game on September 17, where that Devils beat the Bruins, 5-0, in Lowell (Tsongas Arena). Scott Gomez and Barry Tallackson scored in the first, Zach Parise in the second, and Jamie Lagenbrunner and Mike Rupp in the third. Parise's goal was the only even strength goal of the game, and the Devils were 4/11 on the power play. Scott Clemmensen and frank Doyle split the game, with Clemmensen getting 30:12 of game (and shutout) time, and Dolye getting the rest.


Aanndd, since he just celebrated his 22nd birthday yesterday, the rookie of the week is *drum roll*..TRAVIS ZAJAC!! Yeah, I know, that was pretty lame.


Height: 6' 2"
Wight: 200
Position: Center
Birthday: May 13, 1985
Shoots: Right
From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

2006/07 Season:
Team: Devils
Games played: 80
Goals: 17
Assists: 25
PIMs: 16
PPG: 6
SHG: 0
GWG: 2
+/-: +1

2006/07 Playoffs:
Team: Devils
Games played: 11
Goals: 1
Assists: 4
PIMs: 4
PPG: 0
SHG: 0
GWG: 0
+/-: +4

If he improves as much as Parise did from his rookie season, I'll be one happy camper.