2006–07 New Jersey Devils season

The 2006–07 New Jersey Devils season was the team's 24th in the National Hockey League since the franchise moved to New Jersey. The team qualified again for the playoffs, losing in the second round to the Ottawa Senators.
==Regular season==
The 2006-07 season saw the team attempting to maintain its position among the top teams in the National Hockey League's Eastern Conference. Behind the goaltending of Martin Brodeur and the offensive abilities of players such as Patrik Elias, Scott Gomez and Brian Gionta, the Devils once again made a drive into the playoffs. It was the team's last season in Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as construction of the Prudential Center in Newark was completed in time for the Devils to move in for the 2007–08 season. Patrik Elias became the seventh captain in team history, following the retirement of Scott Stevens the previous season.
Brodeur, in his thirteenth full season of NHL play, continued his legacy as one of the winningest goaltenders in league history. On December 8, he shut out the Philadelphia Flyers to record his 462nd career victory, moving him into second place on the all-time victory list, behind Patrick Roy (551). Later in the month, on December 26, Brodeur recorded his 85th career shutout (3–0 over the Pittsburgh Penguins) to move into third place on the all-time shutout list, behind Terry Sawchuk (103) and George Hainsworth (94). 
On April 2, the Devils surprisingly fired new head coach Claude Julien with three games remaining in the season, despite a strong record of 47–24–8. Lou Lamoriello took over as coach afterwards.
On April 5, 2007, a win against the Philadelphia Flyers broke two records. One was the records for most wins in a season by a goaltender by Martin Brodeur with his 48th victory of the season. The other being the New Jersey Devil franchise record of most wins by the team in a season with their 49th victory.
The Devils finished the regular season as Atlantic Division champions with 107 points, good for second-place in the Eastern Conference.
On April 28, 2007 the Devils sold out the 19,040 capacity Continental Airlines Arena for the first time in the 2006–07 season in the 3–2 double overtime win against the Ottawa Senators.
The Devils' season came to an end on May 5, 2007, as they lost game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semi-finals to the Ottawa Senators 3–2, to lose the series 4–1. That defeat turned out to be the last game ever played at the Continental Airlines Arena.
===Season standings===
=== Game log ===
==Playoffs==
The New Jersey Devils ended the 2006–07 regular season as the Eastern Conference's second seed.
====Eastern Conference Quarter-finals: vs. (7) Tampa Bay Lightning====
New Jersey wins series 4–2
#	Date 	Visitor 	Score	Home 	OT	Decision	Attendance	Series
1	April 12	Tampa Bay 	3 – 5	New Jersey	 	Brodeur 	14,495 	1 – 0
2	April 14	Tampa Bay 	3 – 2	New Jersey	 	Brodeur 	18,231 	1 – 1
3	April 16	New Jersey	2 – 3	Tampa Bay 	 	Brodeur 	20,219 	1 – 2
4	April 18	New Jersey	4 – 3	Tampa Bay 	OT	Brodeur 	20,940 	2 – 2
5	April 20	Tampa Bay 	0 – 3	New Jersey	 	Brodeur 	18,096 	3 – 2
6	April 22	New Jersey	3 – 2	Tampa Bay 	 	Brodeur 	20,019 	4 – 2
===Eastern Conference Semi-finals: vs. (4) Ottawa Senators===
Ottawa wins series 4–1
#	Date 	Visitor 	Score	Home 	OT 	Decision	Attendance	Series
1	April 26	Ottawa 	5 – 4	New Jersey	 	Brodeur 	15,512 	0 – 1
2	April 28	Ottawa 	2 – 3	New Jersey	2OT	Brodeur 	19,040 	1 – 1
3	April 30	New Jersey	0 – 2	Ottawa 	 	Brodeur 	19,636 	1 – 2
4	May 2 	New Jersey	2 – 3	Ottawa 	 	Brodeur 	20,248 	1 – 3
5	May 5 	Ottawa 	3 – 2	New Jersey	 	Brodeur 	19,040 	1 – 4
*Green background indicates win.
*Red background indicates loss.
==Player stats==
===Regular season===
;Scoring
Player	Pos 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
 	LW 	75	21	48	69 	38 	1 	8 	0 	5
 	LW 	82	31	31	62 	30 	-3 	9 	0 	7
 	RW 	82	23	37	60 	64 	-9 	12 	0 	7
 	C 	72	13	47	60 	42 	7 	4 	0 	1
 	D 	82	8 	47	55 	34 	4 	3 	1 	4
 	RW 	62	25	20	45 	36 	-3 	11 	0 	4
 	C 	80	17	25	42 	16 	1 	6 	0 	2
 	LW 	82	16	24	40 	35 	-5 	8 	0 	2
 	C 	74	12	20	32 	14 	-7 	0 	0 	1
 	LW 	82	13	14	27 	8 	-5 	0 	1 	1
 	D 	82	3 	23	26 	18 	-9 	1 	0 	0
 	D 	75	4 	8 	12 	36 	1 	0 	1 	2
 	D 	76	2 	9 	11 	61 	-5 	0 	0 	0
 	LW/C	71	3 	7 	10 	25 	-3 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	76	6 	3 	9 	92 	-10	0 	0 	1
 	C 	66	4 	4 	8 	20 	-5 	0 	1 	1
 	D 	69	0 	8 	8 	69 	-8 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	23	1 	5 	6 	6 	-1 	1 	0 	0
 	RW 	7 	3 	1 	4 	6 	-1 	2 	0 	1
 	RW 	48	1 	0 	1 	114	-2 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	78	0 	1 	1 	12 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	19	0 	1 	1 	4 	-1 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	13	0 	1 	1 	2 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	43	0 	1 	1 	26 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	6 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	0 	0 	0 	7 	-1 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	6 	0 	0 	0 	7 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	-1 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	9 	0 	0 	0 	0 	-3 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	2 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	3 	0 	0 	0 	0 	-1 	0 	0 	0
;Goaltending
Player	MIN 	GP	W 	L 	T/OT	GA 	GAA 	SO	SA 	SV 	SV%
 	4697	78	48	23	7 	171	2.18	12	2182	2011	.922
 	305 	6 	1 	1 	2 	16 	3.15	0 	144 	128 	.889
Team: 	5002	82	49	24	9 	187	2.24	12	2326	2139	.920
===Playoffs===
;Scoring
Player	Pos 	GP	G	A 	Pts	PIM	PPG	SHG	GWG
 	C 	11	4	10	14 	14 	0 	0 	1
 	LW 	11	7	3 	10 	8 	2 	0 	1
 	LW 	10	1	9 	10 	4 	1 	0 	0
 	RW 	11	8	1 	9 	4 	3 	0 	1
 	RW 	11	2	6 	8 	7 	1 	0 	1
 	D 	11	2	6 	8 	8 	2 	0 	0
 	C 	11	1	4 	5 	4 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	11	0	4 	4 	6 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	11	2	1 	3 	2 	0 	0 	1
 	LW 	11	1	2 	3 	6 	1 	0 	0
 	C 	11	1	1 	2 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	LW 	11	1	0 	1 	4 	0 	0 	0
 	G 	11	0	1 	1 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	11	0	1 	1 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	6 	0	1 	1 	6 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	9 	0	1 	1 	7 	0 	0 	0
 	RW 	3 	0	0 	0 	2 	0 	0 	0
 	C 	11	0	0 	0 	4 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	9 	0	0 	0 	10 	0 	0 	0
 	LW/C	11	0	0 	0 	14 	0 	0 	0
 	D 	7 	0	0 	0 	6 	0 	0 	0
;Goaltending
Player	MIN	GP	W	L	GA	GAA 	SO	SA 	SV 	SV%
 	688	11	5	6	28	2.44	1 	332	304	.916
Team: 	688	11	5	6	28	2.44	1 	332	304	.916
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
      MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T/OT = Ties/overtime losses; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage; 
== Transactions ==
===Trades===
February 27, 2007	To Calgary FlamesDavid Hale5th round pick in 2007	To New Jersey Devils3rd round pick in 2007
===Free agents acquired===
Player 	Former Team
F Michael Rupp 	Phoenix Coyotes
F Dan LaCouture	Boston Bruins
F Jim Dowd 	Colorado Avalanche
===Free agents lost===
Player 	New Team
D Ken Klee 	Colorado Avalanche
D Brad Ference 	Calgary Flames
F Viktor Kozlov	New York Islanders
===Draft picks===
The Devils' picks at the 2006 NHL Entry Draft in Vancouver, British Columbia.2006 NHL Entry Draft Results nhl.com - accessed January 9, 2007
Rd #	Pick #	Player 	Nat	Pos	Team (League) 	Notes
1 	30 	Matt Corrente 	 	D 	Saginaw Spirit (OHL) 	The Devils acquired the Carolina Hurricanes' 2006 first-round draft pick (Corrente) and the Vancouver Canucks' third-round pick (Zharkov) from St. Louis for the Devils' 2006 first-round pick (used on Patrik Berglund) on June 24, 2006.
2 	58 	Alexander Vasyunov	 	LW 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (Russian Super League)	
3 	67 	Kirill Tulupov 	 	D 	Almetyevsk Neftyanik (Vysshaya Liga) 	The Devils acquired the 2006 third-round pick from Washington for Jeff Friesen on September 26, 2005.
3 	77 	Vladimir Zharkov 	 	RW 	HC CSKA Moscow (Russian Super League) 	The Devils had traded their original 2006 third-round pick (later transferred to Phoenix and used on Jonas Ahnelov) to the New York Islanders for Brad Lukowich on March 9, 2006.
4 	107 	T.J. Miller 	 	D 	Penticton Vees (BCHL) 	The Devils acquired the 2006 fourth-round pick from Vancouver for Sean Brown on March 9, 2006. The Devils had traded their original fourth-round pick (used on Hugo Carpentier) to Calgary for Jason Wiemer on March 9, 2006.
5 	148 	Olivier Magnan 	 	D 	Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL) 	
6 	178 	Tony Romano 	 	C 	New York Bobcats (AJHL) 	
7 	208 	Kyell Henegan 	 	D 	Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL) 	
==External links==
*Official website of the New Jersey Devils
==See also==
*2006–07 NHL season
==References==
*Game log: New Jersey Devils game log on espn.com
*Team standings: NHL standings on espn.com
 
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