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1. Just how bad were things for New Jersey this week? They dropped four more games to extend the losing streak to five, and they have just one goal in their last nine periods. They have a minus-10 goal differential in their last 10. They’re 4-8-0 without Jack Hughes … and they have fallen out of a playoff spot.

2. General manager Tom Fitzgerald needs to do something — anything — to spark this team. Great GMs are able to strike deals before the deadline. His seat should be blazing hot if he can’t make something happen — and fast.

3. Lots of talk about defenseman Quinn Hughes after the report from Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman that the Devils reached out to th

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