Pavel Zacha played this season for Sarnia in the OHL. Tom Fitzgerald: “We’re very comfortable with that. We didn’t want to feel like we had to keep a kid like Pav on our roster not knowing how our team was going to be. When I was (a player) I used to question why guys who just won the Calder Cup were sitting out for the Islanders as healthy scratches while the guys we beat in the semifinals for the Calder Cup were all playing for Montreal. Lorne Henning just said, ‘We’re not Montreal. We’re at the bottom here. To throw you guys to the wolves wouldn’t be healthy.
Eight players in Devils' system with bright NHL futures
