NEWARK — Teenagers in hockey are like teenagers elsewhere in life — equal parts exhilarating and exasperating, works in progress that require patience, perseverance and regular feeding.
But part of the fun is seeing how it all turns out, and for metropolitan-area hockey fans the next several seasons figure to offer plenty of that.
Players with star potential who were born after Y2K have begun to take the ice in our local rinks, and Exhibits A and B were on display on Thursday night at the Prudential Center in the Devils’ 5-2 victory over the Rangers.
How big was the first regular season meeting between the Devils’ Jack Hughes and Rangers’ Kaapo Kakko, the No.