The New Jersey Devils 2016-17 season is still in its infancy (Game #4 is tonight), but there’s already one thing bothering me; maybe it’s just me, but when you have a young player in your lineup, you want them to properly develop. In order for that to happen, the player needs to be seeing the ice, either in the minors, or in the NHL. For Steven Santini so far in 2016-17 that has not been the case.
A healthy scratch for the first trio of games, Santini is still waiting for his chance to crack New Jersey’s lineup, and at the way some of our defensemen have played (one in particular) I can’t really understand why that is.