Photo by Andy Marlin/NHLI via Getty Images
Welcome to the All About the Jersey Mailbag, where we periodically ask you about what Devils players/coaches/management types are making you mad on a particular day. Today is a season opening edition of the ‘bag, where we are all still filled with feelings that are vaguely tangential to hope. Off we go!
@Jacques_Jams: If Kovalchuk was a 10 and Parise was an 8. What score does Crawford get for screwing the Devils?
Well, barring any further news on a personal family issue or something coming out, I think we can make a ruling on this one. Crawford is obviously well within his rights to determine that he has nothing left in the tank and hang up his skates, which seems to be what happened here. That doesn’t mean we can’t be annoyed at the timing and acknowledge that he did kind of leave the team in the lurch. This is obviously nothing near the scale of the Parise and Kovalchuk departures, given that Crawford never even played a game for the Devils, but it does leave the team scrambling with limited options to adequately replace what they thought they were getting from Crow.