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How a carpool built bond for Devils' Nico Hischier, Jesper Bratt, Pavel Zacha, Blake Coleman

The lobby of a Jersey City apartment building serves as a meeting place for Nico Hischier, Jesper Bratt, Pavel Zacha and Blake Coleman.

Well, sometimes it’s also a place for three of the young Devils to wait on the fourth.

"Nico is notoriously five minutes late,” Coleman said.

Occasional tardiness aside, the four Devils regularly descend from their apartments, ready to trek to Newark in one car on a game or practice day.

The four young players all moved into the same building this season, and along with breaking into the NHL together, they formed an inevitable bond off the ice.