New Jersey Devils: 5 Best All-Star Performances In Franchise History
By Nick Villano
The New Jersey Devils have been around for close to 40 years, which means they have been sending players to the All-Star Game that entire time. Since 1983, 52 players have represented the players at the All-Star Game. Martin Brodeur is the Devils greatest All-Star unsurprisingly. He’s been selected to the team 10 times. He was also a good soldier player in nine of the 10 games he was chosen to play in. What is surprising is he didn’t get selected to the most All-Star Teams.
Scott Stevens was selected to the team 11 times in his illustrious career. He actually made it in 11 out of 12 years, only missing the game in 2002. The Devils still sent a defenseman that season in Brian Rafalski.
There’s nothing like that on the Devils right now. The Devils didn’t have anyone selected to play in the 2012 All-Star Game (which seems preposterous in retrospect), and since then a different player went every single year. That’s right, there’s been a different player to represent the Devils every year for the past seven years (there was no All-Star Game in 2013 or 2014).
The latest All-Star is Jack Hughes, who will take on the new 3-on-3 format for the Metropolitan Division on Saturday. He will likely break the trend of the Devils never getting a repeat All-Star. To be fair, Taylor Hall was selected multiple times, but he only went once. That leaves the Devils with a new player putting on some of those crazy All-Star jerseys every season.
When looking at actual All-Star Game performances, the Devils aren’t always prominent on the score sheet. That’s mostly because the Devils have been defensively focused when it comes to its stars. The Devils main job was to shut down the likes of Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky, and Jaromir Jagr. Still, there are some really good performances representing the Devils. Here are the five best.