With how this New Jersey Devils season has gone, it’s very confusing that the team hasn’t played defenseman Steve Santini more. He’s just 23 years old, has two seasons where he played over 35 games, and the Devils just signed him to a three-year deal that is purely a one-way deal. That means he has to stay on the Devils or they could risk losing him for good.
The Devils drafted him in the second round five years ago, so they used a pretty high asset on him. This isn’t a player that just fell in their lap, this is a player they had high hopes for from the start.