The New Jersey Devils didn’t make a lot of changes defensively this year. Prior to the expansion draft Ray Shero made a move to acquire Mirco Mueller. With a lack of defensive options on the market it looks like Shero decided to help the defense by adding offense. The Devils outside of the 1st line had trouble possessing the puck and its hard to play defense well when you’re constantly in your own zone.
Depending on what happens early at camp I imagine we’ll be looking at defensive combinations resembling something like this:
Greene-Severson
Moore-Santini
Mueller-Lovejoy
We’ll take a look at each of these defensemen and a few others who could compete for a spot like Dalton Prout, Michael Kapla, and Yaroslav Dyblenko.