Regular Season:
An abysmal year saw the New Jersey Devils go 26-46-10 to come 29th in the league. Fortunately their AHL team performed extremely well, going 45-26-5 to make the playoffs as the 3rd seed in their conference.
Top Scorers:
Jagr - 22G, 37A, 59P
Cammalleri - 33G, 25A, 58P
Zajac - 15G, 37A, 52P
Greene - 4G, 42A, 46P
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Bernier - 28G, 58A, 86P
Boucher - 40G, 38A, 78P
Josefson - 18G, 46A, 64P
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Kessel - 53G, 45A, 98P
Stamkos - 44G, 52A, 96P
Kopitar - 32G, 62A, 94P
Kane - 37G, 56A, 93P
Duchene - 44G, 48A, 92P
Playoffs:
The AHL team lost in the second round to the St. John's IceCaps in six games. Reid Boucher led the team in goals and points with 5 and 13, respectively.
The St. John's IceCaps went on to win the Calder Cup and the Ottawa Senators took home the Stanley Cup.
Retirees:
Jaromir Jagr
Patrik Elias
Dainius Zubrus
Draft picks:
1 - Connor McDavid 4.5G
2 - Mathieu Ayotte 4Y
3 - Daniel Sprong 4.5R
4 - Carl Dahlstrom 4Y
5 - Mitch Marner 4R
6 - Yury Yakupov 4R
7 - Spencer Smallman 3.5R
Re-signings:
I re-signed Josefson, Larsson, Gelinas, Loktionov, Larsen, Havlat, Bell and Tedenby. Let a couple older players go like Zidlicky and Ryder.
Free agent signings:
Alec Martinez - 2 years, 3.75M per
David Schlemko - 1 year, 1.975M
Jay McClement - 2 years, 1.555M per
Jason Spezza - 4 years, 7.2M per
Joel Ward - 1 year, 4M
Shawn Matthias - 2 years, 2.875M per
Tomas Vokoun - 1 year, 1.7M
2015/16 Starting Lineup:
Havlat (84) - Spezza (88) - Cammalleri (86)
Boucher (80) - Henrique (85) - Zajac (86)
Matthias (83) - McDavid (81) - Loktionov (83)
Clowe (84) - Josefson (83) - Ward (84)
Gelinas (87) - Greene (85)
Merrill (82) - Larsson (84)
Martinez (82) - Schlemko (80)
Schneider (87)
Vokoun (82)
The team is STACKED and Gelinas grew so hopefully he'll hit a top 2 next year!
BTW, I added in some prospects (Eichel, Hanifin etc) and bumped up McDavid so he's ready to go year one. Also, in the future, I might work on formatting a bit more but I don't want to spend too much time on updates. Knowing me, I probably won't even do another big update after this lol. I'll (hopefully) continue with yearly starting lineups but who knows.