In a world where a team with expectations has a single win on a five-game road trip, a group of players run into the Devil. And not any old Devil. A Devil from New Jersey.
But these aren’t the same Devils who made the playoffs last year with the will of Taylor Hall who won a Hart Trophy for his efforts. This is a Devils team hugging the bottom of the Eastern Conference barrel along with the Philadelphia Flyers, with little optimism about a late-season surge. Just what the Leafs need, wouldn’t you say?