Happy National Pickle Day! Blake Coleman is the Devils’s Best Non-Top-Line Forward

Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for NYCWFFI love Blake Coleman. I’ve loved watching him since the first game of last year. By the 3rd game of last year, I was tweeting incessantly about him during games (one, two, three, four). His name certainly doesn’t carry the weight of stars some of the more veteran or more influential players on the team, but I’m rapidly approaching the viewpoint that no forward on this team outside the top line of Hall, Hischier, and Palmieri is as good as #20. And, seeing as today is National Pickle Day, I figured, what better time to celebrate the wonder that is Mr. Coleman.

Part of what is so great about his game is that there’s a little something there for…