5 New Jersey Devils With Most To Prove At Development Camp

The New Jersey Devils unveiled a roster of 37 players for this year’s development camp. There are some expected names, but these five have the most to prove to management.

This week’s New Jersey Devils development camp may be the most anticipated in history. Already, the Devils have prospects from their system like Ty Smith, Reilly Walsh and Jesper Boqvist making an appearance, but after the NHL Draft, this camp gets to add Jack Hughes.

He was one of 11 draft picks that will make an appearance at the Prudential Center. It’s insane the level of talent the Devils are inviting to this year’s camp. Think about this, the Devils have a pretty decent roster with names like Taylor Hall, Nico Hischier, Kyle Palmieri, P.K. Subban, Wayne Simmonds and more that will come to training camp in August, but as many as five players from this camp could make the roster.

However, to make the roster these players might have a lot to prove. Others want to prove themselves before heading overseas or to their Juniors campaign for the season. This might be the last time they will have one-on-one interactions with Devils management and coaches until next year’s camp. Then, there will be a whole new set of prospects to watch.

It took a while to get the information out of the Devils on what’s going on with their development camp. Now that we have it, we can get excited about what’s coming up for the rest of the week. Here are the five players with the most to gain, or lose, this week. Players like Hughes and Smith don’t have much to prove, because they have a ton of receipts based on their play last season. However, how some players play this week could determine what happens to them the rest of the way.