Meet the New Jersey Devils: Metropolitan Area’s Best Hockey Team

Arizona Coyotes v New Jersey DevilsFor the New York Rangers and Islanders for a moment. The New Jersey Devils are the Metropolitan area’s best hockey team.

If I told you before this NHL season that on Nov. 3, the New Jersey Devils would not only be the best team inNew York but the Metropolitan Division, you would have told me I was insane. You would have told me a bunch of young unproven forwards mixed in with Taylor Hall, Kyle Palmieri, Adam Henrique and Marcus Johansson could not be the best team in the Metro this early. That a group of unproven defensemen with a goalie coming off his worst career season could not be the best team in the Metro.

But here we sit, Nov. 3 and the Devils are…