Gameday 75 - Devils

News has started to surface that Jaques Lemaire is willing to consider remaining the coach in NJ next season. If you're a New Jersey Devils fan, that is the only news you want to hear. Well, that and maybe that you will make a playoff appearance this season but that appears to not be on the horizon for this team. The Devils are famous for having a revolving door behind their bench. Each of their three Stanley Cups, all won within a 10-year period, was won with a different coach. Now, you can't blame all the changes on the Devils, as Lemaire did retire last spring and Pat Burns had to step down because of cancer. Some of the other coaches in recent history were just knuckleheads, yea you Kevin Constantine. The Devils NEED Lemaire to come back, anyone with half a brain knows that.

Ilya Kovalchuk is a douche bag. He is a pompous show-off. He is annoying. Kovalchuk is also a world-class, game-changing superstar, something that we don't get to see anymore. And, God, does it suck. So when Michalek got called for a bullshit penalty late in OT and the Devils needed a goal, guess who showed up. Yeah, it was a wide-open net, but that don't mean shit. And as you look at all the pics of Kovalchuk celebrating...you think of a time not so long ago when the Pens had superstar players... when Malkin would end a game in OT or Crosby would take shit over. Now we just have Tyler Kennedy scoring goals. We're in Hell right now, people. Hell.