Timing is everything when it comes to professional sports. It’s time for the New Jersey Devils to retire No. 18, which belonged to Sergei Brylin, and lift it to the Prudential Center’s rafters before 2018 comes to an end.
That’s right, Sergei Brylin.
It would be fitting to retire Brylin’s No. 18 in 2018, which would be the sixth number the Devils have retired. Here’s why.
Sergei Brylin was an ideal and prototypical Lou Lamoriello product. He was quiet, appeared serious at all times, was a great two-way player and ultimately succeeded in New Jersey by joining an elite class of Devils skaters.