Mike Hoffman scored two first-period goals, Jake Allen made 41 saves and the visiting Montreal Canadiens snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 shootout
Kyle Palmieri will be fine for the Devils, but his trade value may not
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In 2016-17, Kyle Palmieri was coming off his first season as a Devil a season in which he led the Devils with 30 goals and 57 points. At only 25, we could be cautiously optimistic that this was just the beginning of a great Devils career. And with 2 goals in his first 4 games of 2016 it looked like business as usual. But then our budding star went ice. freaking. cold. He scored 2 goals over his next 26 games which include a 9-game goalless drought and two 7-game ones. Our 25-year-old phenom was a flash in the pan. He would never score another goal in his NHL career and was forced into retirement at the age of just 27.