Author Archive: Jeff O'Connor

Happy NHL Draft Day everybody! Looking forward to tonight and Saturday. We’ll keep this one mostly draft-focused. 1- If you listened to our Mock Draft #DevilsDaily on Wednesday, you heard me select Swedish defenseman Tobias Bjornfot at 34. Rachel Doerie,…
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1) Let’s start with the less interesting stuff.  Regardless of whether you love, hate or have any feeling in-between on Pavel Zacha, the clock was running out on possessing the option to send him to AHL-Binghamton.  Zacha has played 154…
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Pumped to be back writing after a few months away.  Again, I don’t know how often I’ll write these.  When interesting and unique content pertaining to the Devils surfaces, I’ll have some thoughts.  Let’s get started. 1)  Recently, it was…
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The defense of the New Jersey Devils has been perhaps the most-discussed item among Devils fans for the last several years.  There are certainly a few talented blueliners on board, but there is a need for many more to arrive. …
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1) In May, Carolina Hurricanes VP of Hockey Operations Paul Krepelka joined Craig Custance’s Full 60 podcast.  He’s a Princeton University grad!  Krepelka used to work as an agent for the Orr Hockey Group, one of the biggest hockey agencies,…
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1) Sorry!  It’s been awhile but I was afraid I’d somehow jinx things near the end of the regular season if I was writing non-playoff stretch items so I just stopped.  I’d like to write once a week in the…
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1) Been about two weeks+ since I cranked out one of these, so let me play catch up.  I went to the game in Vegas a few weeks ago and while it was highly entertaining, for me, there were a…
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1) Over this past weekend, the NCAA career of Merrimack College forward and New Jersey Devils’ 2015 6th round pick Brett Seney came to an end, with a pair of 1-goal losses in the Hockey East Tournament Quarterfinals to #1…
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