TIL que le nom « Devils » a été sélectionné par un sondage de fans en 1982. Autres noms potentiels qui ont obtenu moins de votes : Americans, Blades, Colonials, Lightning, Meadowlarks and Meadowlanders, Coastals, Generals, Gulls, Jaguars, Patriots
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Yes and when it was selected they approached the clergy of different faiths to see if they had issues. What most people don’t understand is that the name « New Jersey Devils » is based on Leeds Devil which is a cryptid not the biblical devil. Most people just call us « The Devils » and leave off the New Jersey part. But, here context is everything.
I like weird names and kinda wish we used the Colonials or Coastals.
The right choice was made.
Devils is the perfect name. I love when teams use a name that has some real relevance to the state beneath the service like Devils does with the NJ Devil myth. Kinda like how the Baltimore Ravens are named after former resident Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem.