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Hurricanes Add John MacLean To Coaching Staff
Not long after his long-time teammate Ken Daneyko tweeted it, John MacLean was officially named an assistant coach under new Carolina Hurricanes coach Kirk Muller. We are awaiting confirmation on the roles of the current assistant coaches and will update when we receive that information. The...
Devils hire former Panthers coach Peter DeBoer
The New Jersey Devils have named Pete DeBoer as the club's latest head coach. After relieving Jacques Martin to concentrate solely on management in 2008, DeBoer's three seasons in Florida began in sparkling fashion, collecting 93 points (an improvement of eight points over the previous year) en...
Getting Defensive: New Jersey Devils
"Getting Defensive" is a weekly look at the defense corps of the 30 NHL teams using the Time On-Ice (TOI) data from the 2010-11 regular season. For a general introduction to the inspiration and methodology, please see this post and this post. The previous two weeks, I've looked at NHL teams (the...
How the New Jersey Devils were Better Under Lemaire than MacLean: Possession
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Thank You & Goodbye Jacques Lemaire
After today's 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins (my recap of the game is here), interim head coach of the New Jersey Devils, Jacques Lemaire, announced his retirement. As reported by Tom Gulitti after the game, Lemaire will go back to being a Special Assignment Coach with the Devils organization....
The 2010-11 New Jersey Devils Power Play: Just Hot in December
One of the glaring and more frustrating problems with the New Jersey Devils this season is their power play. As if it wasn't enough that this team struggles to score goals in general, the power play has ranged to the occasionally good to so bad that one wonders that what they watched was an utter...
Random Thoughts- Jamie Langenbrunner and Reinforcement
In the MacLean era, there were many things wrong with the team. Some players looked neutered out there.Every defenseman looked like a pylon out there. I could go and attempt to recall everything wrong with the team under MacLean, but I really don't want to recall all the horrors from that era....
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Greatest Game
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together the top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer...
Are the Devils Doing Any Better in the Second Period under Jacques Lemaire?
For the first three months of the New Jersey Devils 2010-11 season, the second period has been horrid seemingly over and over again. Over a month ago, I looked at the game summaries of the first 27 games of the season to see how the second periods have went for New Jersey in terms of shots and...
Let's Breakdown Scott Burnside's Latest Shameful Article about the New Jersey Devils
When Lou Lamoriello fired John MacLean and announced Jacques Lemaire as the interim head coach of the New Jersey Devils, word traveled fast. Since it was, as far as I know, the second coaching change of the 2010-11 season and it came out of nowhere, everyone was abuzz. The moment the Star Ledger...
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