The New Jersey Devils can blame anybody with this mediocre start because no player, personnel, or management can be content with how everything’s gone up until this point. When your team has so much promise on paper, it is really hard to swallow the fact the team is 5-8-4 and at the bottom of the standings.
You can put the blame on certain people all you want, but before you do that you have to look at the whole picture. Coaches and management were perfectly content with sending Ty Smith back to junior. In reality, that was their first mistake this season.