New Jersey Devils: What Makes Nico Hischier’s Career A Success

The New Jersey Devils were pleasantly surprised with how good Nico Hischier was in his first season. With a fast start, how good must he become to be considered a success?

Success is sports is a funny thing. It’s basically a math equation. You start with a team’s expectation, you subtract the results, and there is a certain answer threshold that makes a team or player a success or failure. For example, the New Jersey Devils season was a success last year while the Tampa Bay Lightning’s was not. Yet, the Lightning beat the Devils in the first round.

Were not talking about that today. We’re actually talking about the Devils darling Nico Hischier.

This all started with a conversation on a message…