Success is sports is a funny thing. It’s basically a math equation. You start with a team’s expectation, you subtract the results, and there is a certain answer threshold that makes a team or player a success or failure. For example, the New Jersey Devils season was a success last year while the Tampa Bay Lightning’s was not. Yet, the Lightning beat the Devils in the first round.
Were not talking about that today. We’re actually talking about the Devils darling Nico Hischier.
This all started with a conversation on a message board. There, Devils fans discussed whether fans would take a Patrik Elias career out of Hischier.