{"id":393551,"date":"2026-01-06T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393551\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T12:59:20","slug":"devils-drama-scary-shesterkin-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/393551\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils Drama; Scary Shesterkin Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright, New Jersey Devils<\/a> fans are ready to move past the drama, and I\u2019m certain so are the players. It\u2019s in the past now, leave it there, and hope for some improvement moving forward.<\/p>\n

If you missed yesterday\u2019s digested thoughts on the Luke Hughes situation, find it in the links below.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, it looks like Igor Shesterkin suffered a scary injury, Sam Bennett takes ownership, and Pittsburgh terminates a contract.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s do that hockey.<\/p>\n

Devils Trade Rumors & News<\/p>\n

New Jersey Hockey Now: From yesterday\u2019s daily, I slept on and digested what we saw in Newark Sunday night. Luke Hughes<\/a>, booed off the ice, for an otherwise bench-able game, was probably unwarranted. Here\u2019s why Devils fans have to be careful what they wish for when expressing frustration.<\/p>\n

Devils Rink Report: Speaking of frustration, the Devils power play is not going well lately. Spittin\u2019 Chiclets producer\/co-host, Pasha Eshghi, joined me to discuss how the can fix it \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Be sure to like and subscribe to\u00a0Devils Rink Report<\/a>, and turn on those notifications for when we go LIVE every Friday on YouTube!<\/p>\n

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NHL Trade Talk, News, & National Hockey Now<\/p>\n

Forever Blueshirts: Oh boy, the New York Rangers<\/a> are holding their breath after a scary moment when Igor Shesterkin sustained a scary injury.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Hockey Now: Well, that just about does it for Egor Zamula\u2019s Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> tenure. After they acquired him in exchange for Philip Tomasino, he never reported to the AHL Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins. And thus, his contract has been terminated. More here from Dan Kingerski.<\/p>\n

Florida Hockey Now:\u00a0It was shocking to see Sam Bennett snubbed from Team Canada\u2019s Olympic roster, heading to Milan in about a month. However, the Florida Panthers<\/a> center took full responsibility for the snub.<\/p>\n

Philly Hockey Now: The Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> have officially extended center Christian Dvorak. The soon 30-year-old converted a successful season thus far into a long-term extension with the Devils rival.<\/p>\n

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\t\tJames is the New Jersey Devils beat reporter for New Jersey Hockey Now on Sportsnaut and the PHWAs New … More about James Nichols<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alright, New Jersey Devils fans are ready to move past the drama, and I\u2019m certain so are the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,3723,5,1769,576,151,5185,5184,4,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-393551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-devils-news","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-luke-hughes","12":"tag-new-jersey","13":"tag-new-jersey-devils","14":"tag-newjersey","15":"tag-newjerseydevils","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115848280097951721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}