Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we maintain and update our existing Top 50 lists annually.  As such, we are delighted to present our pre-2025/26 revision of our top 50 New Jersey Devils.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey, we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Devils made the playoffs but were eliminated in five games in the first round against Carolina.  There was one new entrant and three elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which remain unchanged. 

1. Martin Brodeur
2. Scott Stevens
3. Scott Niedermayer
4. Patrik Elias
5. Ken Daneyko 

You can find the entire list here.

Center Nico Hischier jumped up ten spots to #14.

Left Wing Jesper Bratt also made a ten-rank climb.  He is now ranked at #15.

Center Jack Hughes vaulted to #26 from #33.

The only new entry was Defenseman Dougie Hamilton, who enters at #35.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

Signing with the New Jersey Devils as a Free Agent in 2021, Dougie Hamilton slotted in easily with the Devils as a power-play quarterback and an offensively skilled Defenseman.

Hamilton scored 30 Points in his first year with the Devils, but exploded with a career high 74 Points in 2022-23, which netted him a sixth-place Norris Trophy finish.  Since then, Hamilton has dealt with injuries that have reduced his games, but when he is on the ice, there are few blueliners at his level.