Devils team discussion (news, notes and speculation) - camp edition
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He actually does - Cup winner, captain, was here for like a decade. Nobody else has all those criteria who isn’t already in the rafters. It ended badly but his career on the whole merits it.
I’m just noticing they have a preseason game scheduled the day before the opener in Europe? What is even the point of scheduling that?
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Maybe it's... Zacha.
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Pandolfo absolutely does not deserve to be in a ring of honor lol
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One of the most overrated Devils of all time IMO.
He wasn’t even a career Devil, which is all good and fine. I was happy to see him go.
He was toast before Lou even gave him that final deal.
He’s probably a nice guy, and he served a purpose at one point, but got a lot more mileage here than he should have.
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If anything maybe it being during the Bruins game was done by design, as it’s gonna be someone close to him and Langs. But maybe not.
I can think of at least 10 people (not all of them players) who would be put in the Devils ring of honor before Pandolfo.
If you put him in then you gotta put in guys like MacLean, Holik, Gomez, Gionta, Madden, Langs and maybe even Colin White or Claude Lemieux.
As well as non-playing personalities like Doc, Chico (as commentator) Lou, Jacques Caron, all 3 cup head coaches, etc.
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The MacLean error, as well as the messy Langs breakup have both been long enough that it’s all forgotten in comparison to their careers here.
MacLean was once a contender for first Devils jersey retirement. Even Lou said so on his way out as a player.
He was an original Devil, the highest scoring Devil at the time and won the cup with us. The other guys were either not career Devils (Stevens) or were still way too young (Marty, Nieds, Patty) to even talk about a potential future number retirement. And I don't think anyone ever really thought Dano was a serious number retirement back in 1997.
I think what changed Maclean being a retired number was that we won 2 more cups after he left, and had 3 hall of fame locks in Stevens, Marty and Nieds, as well as a borderline HOF guy in Elias, who would eventually surpass MacLean in points. All 4 of them either retired as a Devil or played the majority of their career here.
And then Langs was wearing his old number even before he had played his last game in the NHL. I've probably said his coaching stint here ruined things, but I don't think they played much of a part at all. The other things had much more to do with it. MacLean could have never coached here, and I bet his number still wouldn't be up there.
MacLean was once a contender for first Devils jersey retirement. Even Lou said so on his way out as a player.
He was an original Devil, the highest scoring Devil at the time and won the cup with us. The other guys were either not career Devils (Stevens) or were still way too young (Marty, Nieds, Patty) to even talk about a potential future number retirement. And I don't think anyone ever really thought Dano was a serious number retirement back in 1997.
I think what changed Maclean being a retired number was that we won 2 more cups after he left, and had 3 hall of fame locks in Stevens, Marty and Nieds, as well as a borderline HOF guy in Elias, who would eventually surpass MacLean in points. All 4 of them either retired as a Devil or played the majority of their career here.
And then Langs was wearing his old number even before he had played his last game in the NHL. I've probably said his coaching stint here ruined things, but I don't think they played much of a part at all. The other things had much more to do with it. MacLean could have never coached here, and I bet his number still wouldn't be up there.
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Nah I agree, I was just thinking if there was something more with the Bruins being the game. Ring of honor games usually have that connection is all, maybe it is Langs since he worked in Boston's front office recently as a scout I believe
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Being doc or Chico would be a lame out since they already had nights honoring them. My guess like someone said would he lemaire makes sense it would be a coach
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I wouldn't mind if it was chico, doc, and Lemaire just so they can be celebrated before they get to old and....
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