The New Jersey Devils have allowed a combined 13 goals in their last two losses, and head coach Sheldon Keefe isn't the least bit happy with the way his team has been performing to finish the first month of the 2025-26 season.
They've earned some grace coming off an impressively dominant eight-game win streak, but complacency is death in the NHL, and Keefe knows it.
“That was not it. That’s not the way you can work, compete, and the urgency you need to have defensively. You cannot win in the National Hockey League with that as the baseline.