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NHL Burning Questions: New Jersey Devils

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You’re reading the latest file in THN.com’s continuing “Three Burning Questions” series. In this feature, we ask three major questions for every NHL team before the start of the 2022-23 regular season. We’re posing Three Burning Questions about the New Jersey Devils in this file.

THREE BURNING QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVILS IN 2022-23:

1. Who’s the starting goaltender for this Devils team? For years, Mackenzie Blackwood has been positioned by the Devils as their goalie of the future. But he’s 25 now – seven years older than he was when New Jersey drafted him 42nd overall – and the road to success has not been linear. After a career-high 47 games played in 2019-20, injuries and the COVID-19 virus have bit into Blackwood’s NHL time more and more in each of the two subsequent seasons, to the point he appeared in only 25 games in 2021-22. .

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