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It’s become obvious now to even non-Devils fans: The Devils have some problems. After losing to the Flames last Friday 5-3, the Devils got blanked by the league-worst Oilers, 2-0. The Devils are 3-6-1 in their last 10 games. If, in the first three months of the season, you had told me that the Devils would acquire Ilya Kovalchuk and that by March 7th they would only have 10 wins out of 25 games, I’d say you were crazy. But that’s how it stands.

Rookie Niclas Bergfors has had a hell of a season. When the season started he came out swinging. He got his first point, an assist, in the first game of the season, against the Flyers. He got two goals and four assists in October, four goals and six assists in November, and seven goals and three assists in December. He even got two goals in a 3-2 win against the Capitals on November 4th and has scored a goal in all four games against the Penguins. For a while, he was neck-and-neck with John Tavares for the title of "highest scoring rookie". But January has not been kind to Bergfors.

When General Manager Lou Lamoriello announced that he had hired Jacques Lemaire as the new head coach after the departure of Brent Sutter, a collective groan could be heard from Devils fans. Hell, I was one of them. But yet again, Lou made the right choice when he brought back the Devils former head coach. Granted, a lot of Devils fans were pretty happy to

New Jersey Devils fans have dealt with a lot of ups and downs recently. Up: The Devils looked pretty good during the pre-season and had some promising rookies vying for spots in New Jersey. Down: It was announced that Patrik Elias would be out until the end of October or beginning of November. Up: The Devils signed Rob Niedermayer, who was looking like a solid