Last season’s opening night roster had many New Jersey Devils fans scratching their heads with a few of the choices made. A couple of spots were open at least to start the season due to Travis Zajac and Brian Boyle starting the season inactive, and when the dust settled, many expected names such as John Quenneville and Joseph Blandisi to be filling roster spaces.
Except that they didn’t; both wound up starting the season in the AHL (and Blandisi was later sent to Anaheim in the Sami Vatanen trade) with Jesper Bratt, Blake Coleman, Brian Gibbons and (technically) Michael McLeod making the team out of camp.