The New Jersey Devils are a team that is coming off a rebuild. During the rebuild, they signed a bunch of old stop gaps in free agency like Michael Ryder, Mike Cammalleri, and Jaromir Jagr. That used to be a thing they had to do in order to set the team up for the future. They needed to ice a team and those guys will be remembered fondly as they were there while the team tried to build a foundation for the future.
That is not the case anymore. That is why the connections online between the New Jersey Devils and free-agent defenseman Andrei Markov make no sense.