New Jersey Devils: Waiting For Taylor Hall Deal Makes It Worse

The New Jersey Devils held Taylor Hall out of the lineup against the Colorado Avalanche. We expected a deal to go down within hours, but we all woke up and Hall was still on this team.

Tom Petty told us first that the waiting is the hardest part. It feels like he wrote that song for New Jersey Devils fans right now. It’s become inevitable that Taylor Hall will not finish his career with the Devils like many of us hoped, but at least the Devils will trade him now instead of waiting like the New York Islanders did with John Tavares.

Now, however, it’s hard to focus on games and really evaluate what’s going on during play. It doesn’t help that the Devils haven’t won a game in December and only…