NJ Voted Top Underdog in Super Scientific THN Poll

The Hockey News did an exhaustive players' poll where they asked one player from each team to pick a 'top underdog' of the playoffs and NJ won with eight votes. Edmonton got seven votes and Montreal was a distant third with four votes.

Woohoo! We're number one... among the lower seeded teams... according to eight people. HERE COMES NEW JERSEY!!! :yo:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?page=playerpoll060405


Here's who voted for NJ, a couple of players are quoted as well:

Anaheim - Jeff Friesen (awww...)
Calgary - Anonymous
Detroit - Chris Osgood
NY Rangers - Anonymous
Philadelphia - R. J. Umberger (not sure why they asked a rookie,
unless no one else would play along.)
St. Louis - Jamal Mayers
Toronto - Anonymous
Washington - Anonymous

:biglaugh: at Lehtonen...

I don't know if it's a good sign or a bad sign that both the Rangers and Flyers representatives picked us.

Good news - They don't want to play us.

Bad news - They won't take us lightly.

:biglaugh: at Lehtonen...
Hahaha

I'm confused...

Does this make us the favorite underdog?

Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway :amazed:

I mean, seriously, ***, when is that Polish prospect coming over :dunno:

The Devils have certainly been a much better team since New Year's Day. They had that bad spell two weeks ago, but they have still had the second best record in the conference since the calendar year 2005 ended. Here are the Eastern Conference standings for January 1 through this morning,
Rank Team W L OT PTS
1. CAR 26 10 2 54
2. NJD 24 9 3 51
3. OTT 23 11 5 51
4. NYR 20 9 7 47
5. BUF 21 12 4 46
6. MTL 21 14 3 45
7. TBL 21 13 2 44
8. ATL 21 15 0 42
9. FLA 19 13 4 42
10. PHI 17 15 5 39
11. NYI 16 19 7 39
12. BOS 14 17 7 35
13. WAS 12 18 9 33
14. TOR 13 19 4 30
15. PIT 9 24 5 23Compare that to the standing after the games of December 31, 2005, Rank Club W L OT PTS
1. OTT 27 6 3 57
2. PHI 24 8 6 54
3. BUF 26 11 2 54
4. CAR 24 10 4 52
5. NYR 22 12 5 49
6. TML 22 14 3 47
7. MTL 18 13 6 42
8. TBL 19 17 3 41
9. ATL 16 17 6 38
10. NJD 16 18 6 38
11. NYI 17 18 2 36
12. FLA 15 20 5 35
13. BOS 14 18 6 34
14. WAS 13 20 3 29
15. PIT 10 19 8 28It is a much different Devils team.

Makes sense

If the playoffs started today, we are the ONLY team in the Eastern Conference with a goaler that has NHL playoff battle-tested experiance.

Tell me which of these names jump out as renowned playoff performers

Emery
Gerber
Lundquvist
Miller
Nitty
Brodeur
Huet
Grahame

Not to take anything away from the other keepers, but all of them (not grahame) have made their name for themselves this season, Stanley Cup Playoff hockey is a different animal.

I'm confused...

Does this make us the favorite underdog?

Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway :amazed:

I mean, seriously, ***, when is that Polish prospect coming over :dunno:
We are now either the most overrated underrated team or perhaps the most underrated overrated team, I guess. :D