POLL MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT IN NEW JERSEY DEVILS HISTORY

[yave1964]

the Devils started as an organization as the Kansas City Scouts and after two years of woeful Hockey and lack of interest they moved to Colorado as the Rockies where after poor play and poor attendance forced them back East, they took up residence in Jersey as the Devils in 82-83. Here is the list of the greatest moments in NJD history for your viewing and dining pleasure.

 

1994-95: DEVILS WIN THE CUP UNDER JACQUES LEMAIRE!

 

This is a hard one for me to list, as a Wings fan, but the left Wing lock as employed by Lemaire shut down scoring in the NHL and with a combination of a short season allowing the club to make the playoffs and led by team leading scorer Stephane Richer with 23 goals in 45 games, Marty Brodeur bursting on the scene as a superstar goalie, and Claude Freaking Gol' Dern it Lemieux scoring 13 goals in the postseason, more than the next two playoff scorers combined, the Devils swept the Wings in four straight to win their first cup.

 

1999-00 DEVILS WIN THE CUP AGAIN!!

 

Lou Lamoriello shocked the hockey world with 8 games to go in the season by firing head coach Robbie Ftorek and hiring another former Hab to run the show for the postseason in Larry Robinson. Led by Patrik Elias, (35 goals) Scott Gomez (19-51-70) and a balanced attack of Sykora, Arnott, and Holik and the top defense in the game led by Niedermayer, Stevens and Rafalski and of course the studly Marty Brodeur who won 43 games and played in an amazing 72 games. They swept the Panthers in 4 before surviving the Leafs in 6 and then an epic series that went 7 games against the Flyers by coming back from being down 3-2 in the series before taking out the defending champs the Stars in six games to capture their second cup.

 

 2002-03: THIRD CUP IN NINE YEARS AS DEVILS DEFEAT THE DUCKS

 

One of the truly underrated coaches of all time Pat Burns manned the helm all year and Marty Brodeur played 73 games carrying the team on his back all year, the club went 46-20-10-6 in spite of poor offense, Elias had 57 points, Langenbrunner and Nieuwendyk came aboard playing solid two way hockey, Niedermayer, stevens, Rafalski and Colin White carried the blue line. The Devils bested the Bruins in 5, then Tampa in 5 as well, before surviving a 7 game scare by the Senators and moving on to the finals where they defeated the Ducks 7. Langenbrunner had 211 goals and Jeff Friessen added 10 in the postseason.

 

1987-88: HAVE ANOTHER DONUT

 

 The Devils had missed the playoffs for the first five years of their existence before Schoenfeld led them to an improbable deep playoff run, led by Kirk Muller (94 points) and Pat Verbeek (46 goals) taking a rag tag bunch Sean Burke came up and went 10-1 in the regular season, They needed to win on the last day of the season to make the postseason just to make the playoffs and John Maclean became the toast of Jersey with an overtime winner to get them into the postseason.

  They upset the Isles, then upset the Capitals, The team made it all the way to the conference finals, but lost to the Boston Bruins in seven games. In that series, head coach Jim Schoenfeld verbally abused referee Don Koharski, screaming obscenties and hollering, "Have another doughnut, you fat pig!" The incident resulted in a suspension for Schoenfeld, which the franchise appealed to the New Jersey Superior Court. This unprecedented appeal to authority outside the NHL gave the Devils a preliminary stay of the coach's suspension. In protest, referee Dave Newell and the assigned linesmen boycotted the next game. After more than an hour's delay, amateur officials were tracked down in the stands and worked the game wearing yellow practice sweaters. To resolve the incident, the NHL suspended Schoenfeld for the next game. Schoenfeld later admitted he regretted his comments. A surprise team that fell just short but left a solid memory

 

MARTIN BRODEUR ALL TIME LEADER IN GOALIE WINS

 

On March 17th 2009 Brodeur passed Patrick Roy for the all time leader in wins. The classy goalie has won 3 cups and played in two additional finals. He sits at 688 career wins, 137 ahead of the next closest goalie, in fact the next closest active goalie is Roberto Luongo who is barely over half of his total, over 300 gwins behind. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, goalie of all time.

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[Yorick]

I'm from Lithuania. So yeah - Dainius Zubrus. 

[MadDevil]

Gotta go with the Devils first Cup, although it happened before I was even a Devils fan. They weren't expected to win against the Wings, much less sweep them. Not to mention Stevens just destroying Kozlov, then his saying "you're next" to the Wings bench.

In fact, I think Stevens becoming a Devil might just be one of the most important events in Devils history.

[yave1964]

Gotta go with the Devils first Cup, although it happened before I was even a Devils fan. They weren't expected to win against the Wings, much less sweep them. Not to mention Stevens just destroying Kozlov, then his saying "you're next" to the Wings bench.

In fact, I think Stevens becoming a Devil might just be one of the most important events in Devils history.

I went with Marty setting an all time record for wins by a goalie, without him none of the three cups would have been possible. I hated him for a long time back in 1995 for what he did to my Wings, don't ever, ever mention Claude Freaking Lemieux without expecting a Pavlovian response of loud cursing and screaming followed by falling to the floor and beating the carpet with my fists. But I forgave Brodeur, frankly 1995 was Jacques Lemaire with his damn trap, his left wing lock system that caught the NHL unaware.

[hf101]

Congrats to one of the best goalies ever, but Unfortunately this hit by Stevens is my most memorable moment of the Devils.