5 Players Who We Wished Had Longer Careers With New Jersey Devils

There are a lot of interchangeable parts in life. There are so few constants from when we are young until we are in the real world. Everything from friendships, relationships, jobs all come and go, but one of the few constants in life is our love for our sports teams. No matter how good or how many times a team lets us down, we always remain loyal. I won’t go into much detail, but there are plenty of teams in the metropolitan area that have not won much, or anything at all since 1994 yet still support those teams.

Back to the point. We love our sports teams because of that emotional connection we have towards the players and the team as a whole. We look at the players as if we have known them forever. One of the difficult aspects of being a fan is when one of your favorite players leaves via free agency, trades or in the case of many New Jersey Devils‘ fans, abrupt retirements. With a man like Lou Lamoriello running things for so long, some of us Devils fans were programmed to not get get too attached to a player because he could jettison them off just like that. However, we are all humans, and as fans sometimes it is hard to let go.

Have you ever looked inside of your closet and saw a jersey of a player who was on Devils for such a short amount of time and just wished that you could see him play on the team longer? There are so many guys to choose from but here are five players who we wish had longer tenures with the Devils.