1. Martin Brodeur (85.71% of the votes).
2. Scott Stevens (98.08% of the votes)
3. Patrik Elias (69.70% of the votes)
4. Scott Niedermayer (79.69% of the votes)
Rafalski had 8 votes, McKay 3.
Some guys people might be forgetting to recommend: Gionta, Parise, Langenbrunner, Pandolfo, Richer
Please read judging criteria
1. We are judging only on what the player did while playing for the organization (i.e. Bill Guerin might've been great elsewhere, but he only had a brief time on the Devils).
2. We are judging for what they did while with the Devils, as in keep hatred of Niedermayer, Gomez, and Parise leaving aside. 3. It's not going to be about who your favorite player is, it's about who contributed the most to the Devils in a player role.
4. Lastly, try to think of the players for their overall impact, and not in the diminished roles they were used later in their careers (White, Pandolfo).
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I will keep going as long as people are interested.
I don't know if we have enough players to go beyond that though. We'll judge when we get there, I guess.
Hopefully the lockout is over by the time we reach 20, but if we can get to 25-40 or so we could still get a good amount of guys in without them being too obscure (guys like White, Mogilny, Friesen, Broten, Driver, Sundstrom etc who may not make the top 20)
Loved him when he played here, and was sad to see him go in 97 even though he was not really the same player ever again after that. I was also sad when Sather buried him in the IHL.
Remember that bald headed guy who coached here that we had by the same name?
I love Dano too. I would put him next. A lot of people used to take a **** on the guy because he wasn't the premier defensemen that Stevens, and Niedermayer were. Also the ''We retired his number out of sentimentality'' people. He loved the Devils, and Lou loved the guy too which showed when he needed to go to rehab during the middle of the season. He wasn't just left out or waived, or chased out of town.
The top 5 was extremely obvious and it's just shown by the percantages. Pretty cool that it was literally that agreeable, I don't think many franchises could do a top 5 without any debate.
However, I think the next 15 gets extremely wacky.
Well we have three numbers in the rafters and two soon to be there. Top 5 is obvious.
MacLean will probably be number six.
After that you have Lemieux, Muller, Holik, Brylin and McKay who are all solid secondary options before even getting to Madden, Pandolfo, Rafalski, Langenbrunner, Gomez, White, Sykora, Arnott, Driver, Lever, etc. Hoping Friesen can find his way into the mix somewhere too. So clutch.
Well we have three numbers in the rafters and two soon to be there. Top 5 is obvious.
MacLean will probably be number six.
After that you have Lemieux, Muller, Holik, Brylin and McKay who are all solid secondary options before even getting to Madden, Pandolfo, Rafalski, Langenbrunner, Gomez, White, Sykora, Arnott, Driver, Lever, etc. Hoping Friesen can find his way into the mix somewhere too. So clutch.
It'll be fun, to say the least.
A lot of guys with similar resumes. Also curious to see how role players like Brylin, Madden, Pandolfo, and McKay are in all of this. They are going to be mixed in with the guys who played short-term but had greater impact during those few years like Arnott.
