Under Lou Lamoriello, the New Jersey Devils were one of the most unique teams in all of sports. The way the teammates had to dress, the unwritten rules, the closed-door media approach. Simply, everything Lou stood for made him unique. With Lamoriello gone and Ray Shero now in charge, a new culture will take form. But the organization’s movement from older practices make for less uniformity among the team and results in the Devils looking like just another unsuccessful franchise.
By looking at some of the unwritten (or perhaps written, we will likely never know) rules that Lamoriello enforced, it is clear that most of them had evident reasoning behind them and in some way added to the organization’s mystique.