I’m going be doing this more this season… just a “jot down” of my thoughts during games to give  a feel of how I see the players doing… so here goes for the Devils’ last pre-season game…

Rolston sucks.. bad passes, slow skating…floating all night… he had a great shot on the pp, and blasted it by Roloson… Rolston got a lot on minutes tonight (or it just felt that way lol)…

Parise easily could have had 3 goals tonight… he was the best player on the ice. Kovy was being used as a decoy and tonight he didn’t seem to even want to shoot much… on the Parise goal, he took 2 players with him into the corner. The Greene to Arnott deflection goal was beautiful. Andy Greene is going to have a monster year, 55+points…

Elias had his best game yet and rookie Sweedish forward Tedenby played with him and Arnott and looked very good at times.. his best game… he’s still a little off and he actually missed a layup in the 3rd of some very pretty work by him, Arnott and Elias…

Langenbrunner played very little tonight as it seemed Johnny Mac was intending on playing the youngsters a lot…

I followed rookie Sweedish centerman Josefson a lot and he played decently… he was even out there with Tedenby for awhile and they did look good together…but got pinned in their own zone.

Josefson and Rolston have absolutely no chemistry.. keep them away from each other. Josefson is a serviceable player and I’d guess he’ll do fine centering Zubrus and Clarkson (who did not play last night)…

The 4th line of Mair, Pelley and Palmieri was really pretty good. Generated some chances, though they did not hit much. Mair looks decent on the pk. Palmieri is going to be sent down soon but he is close to making as a NHLer…

On “D”, White played a usual Colin White game… some excellent physical plays, some bone-headed passes and a few missed checks… he looked rusty…

Greene was sharp and saw what seemed like limited action for him.. they had him paired with Corrente, who played an ok game tonight, He is not ready to play big minutes against other teams best for sure… but he would be a serviceable 6th/7th d-man…

Free agent signing Tallinder, looked sharp and played quite steady and well… when the game was on the line he and Greene were the paring every other shift and that should tell you what the coaches see…

The Devils were very dangerous tonight, and we should all be excited and a big reason for that was Salavdor and Mottau and Skoula out and rookies Urbom (Sweedish also) and Taormina in. Those 2 rookie defensman are very good with the edge to Taormina…

They were mobile, strong on the puck and quick to react with “almost” an error free game from both. I know its a depleted Isles team but these 2 dudes are ready. Taorima had some hard shots on net. We played tonight with 3 hi-quality defensive pairs and as a result our transition game was unstoppable. With some more work and experience playing in our own zone these guys are going to be blue-line regulars.

Get excited about Urbom and Taormina…