As the title states, history is repeating itself for the New Jersey Devils and not in a good way. There were some noticeable concerns that fans and writers alike had last season, and the Devils organization themselves probably did too. Unfortunately, when a team loses more often than not, the glare of those errors is much brighter than when it can be masked by winning ways. Last season’s playoff chase and berth helped to gloss over some errors that still haunt the Devils to this day.
The Devils defense continues to be a problem; CJ wrote yesterday about the volume of Vatanen and I wrote last year (yes, year) about how Steven Santini shouldn’t be the odd D out.