The New Jersey Devils are looking to have a bounceback season in 2019-20. It starts with playing well within their own conference.
The New Jersey Devils are going to be a much stronger team in 2019-20. They shouldn’t have the injury issues that they did last season simply based on probability. They also have a much-improved roster with all of the additions made to it via trade, free agency, and the draft. They have high hopes and it should be very fun to watch.
With the additions of Jack Hughes, Nikita Gusev, P.K. Subban, and Wayne Simmonds, this team is going to have higher expectations than they’ve had in a long time. Obviously, that starts and ends with playing well in their own conference. This conference happens to include a very top-heavy Atlantic Division.
They are a pretty good division from top to bottom but at the top, they are as good as any division in the National Hockey League. The Metropolitan Division might be better from top to bottom, but it might be a little less top-heavy due to the elite squads the Atlantic can feature.
This is a division that has many of the league’s best players, the team that had a historically great regular season last year, and last year’s Eastern Conference Champion. There were three teams in the division that had 100 points last year and there might be more this year. This division can beat anybody on any given night and the New Jersey Devils will be tested pretty much every time they play against one of them. It is good to know your opponents, so we will go over every team in the division and see how the Devils might stack up against them.