Confirmed with Link: Ilya Kovalchuk Announces Retirement from NHL.

[Benedict Parisechuk]

I doubt we sign any of the remaining free agents. Me thinks Lou is gonna work on something for Vanek, if its possible. Other than that, I don't really know what he can do. God damn those forward line are ugly now.

 

[Emperoreddy]

This is kinda like the Devils version of the Red Wedding, except nobody knew it coming so we don't have reaction videos to watch.

 

[DEVILS ALL THE WAY*]

So will we sign somebody? Please don't tell me we're gonna replace him with Tedenby. That worked really well with replacing Parise last year.

Tedenby... that made me laugh real hard.

Nice work

 

[GentlemanOfLeisure]

We'll have to do this NBA style. Season starts next July. 5th.

 

[Just Win]

Click on my Twitter link in my sig to view t-shirt burning.

Waste of fire. Just throw it away. Or use it as cleaning rag.

 

[Desert Devil]

When this first happened, I thought it was that mcbain ****** going on a twitter hacking rage fest over the earlier events.

That's honestly what I first thought too.

 

[NjDevsRR]

Trade everyone for Malkin, yolo.

 

[The Joker]

The worst thing is that you guys won't even be able to smack it in his ugly face because he won't visit ... **** you Kovy

 

[Bleedred]

Tedenby... that made me laugh real hard.

Nice work

That's who was supposed to replace Parise last year. It worked out pretty good too, all 4 games of it.

 

[Benedict Parisechuk]

So will we sign somebody? Please don't tell me we're gonna replace him with Tedenby. That worked really well with replacing Parise last year.

Joe Whitney... Come on down!

 

[NjDevsRR]

The worst thing is that you guys won't even be able to smack it in his ugly face because he won't visit ... **** you Kovy

Devil fans should mail Kovy shirts and jerseys to people in Russia to litter the SKA ice with.

 

[Just Win]

When this first happened, I thought it was that mcbain ****** going on a twitter hacking rage fest over the earlier events.

I looked at my calendar like 3 times to make sure this is not some April 1st joke.

 

[Bcap88]

well i guess kovy is finally off the point on PP's

 

[JMarce]

That's who was supposed to replace Parise last year. It worked out pretty good too, all 4 games of it.

but now it will be new and improved Tedenby 3.0! (or are we at 4.0 now?)

 

[Bleedred]

Joe Whitney... Come on down!

I would rather him get a chance than TedenBUST to be honest. Tedenby is given chance after chance every year because he's a first round pick. Joe Whitney hasn't been given ****. I'm looking forward to the day we put that toothless bust on waivers, because it seems like we try to force him onto the lineup every year now.

 

[elias026]

**** off Ilya

 

[Just Win]

well i guess kovy is finally off the point on PP's

And he also won't have to play on the right wing either.

 

[DevilChuk*]

Welp.. I need a name change.

god damn it Lou should have signed Halischuk for me..

 

[BrindA17]

What blows my mind is that Kovalchuk was always such a passionate, almost-glory-hound player who seemed to be thrilled to play and score goals... and he just retired... just like that. Nothing makes sense anymore.

 

[The Joker]

Devil fans should mail Kovy shirts and jerseys to people in Russia to litter the SKA ice with.

Hope a German team joins the KHL so I can go visit a game when SKA is in town ... I'd definitely do the jersey throwing

 

[yehyeh]

I seriously thought I'd have kids by the time it was close to the end of Kovy's contract. Jeesh

 

[Gabe Kupari]

devils still have a decent roster tho

Elias (yeah he's older),Clowe(dont like that contract one bit tho), Zajac, Henrique is a good up and comer, Loktionov looked good (russian factor there too in a couple years tho)

Things might suck right now... But man, if theres one team in the league that you expect to start failing and sucking hard when they lose star players, its new jersey and you know what.. they never do.

Kovi was a great player.. but he was just one player.. He can and will be replaced.

Believe in Lou, he knows what he's doing.

As for Schneider, dude is from the east coast (boston actually), Dont think re signing him will be an issue at all. Unless, hate saying this but with the financial issues the team is facing, they bolt to seattle or something.

 

[Just Win]

Hope a German team joins the KHL so I can go visit a game when SKA is in town ... I'd definitely do the jersey throwing

I want every KHL team to sign some random goon and make Kovy fight every game.

 

[In Disgust]

Rangers fan here. While hindsight's 20/20, this seems REALLY out of the blue. was this predicted at all? Really sucks, sorry guys.

 

[OmNomNom]

The question is, how long ago did Lou know about this? I'm not feeling so confident on the schneider trade anymore. Unless Lou seriously works some ****ing magic we won't be competitive for a very long time and schneider's contract ends in 2 yrs and I lost all confidence he will re-sign after this mess.